20 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE ON CANINE MADNESS. 
What effect has it produced?—Not any. 
Do you conceive that the virus of the rabid dog may safely be 
taken into the stomach of either man or animal?—Yes, if the 
coats of the stomach were sound. 
Have you ever inoculated a dog with the virus, and shortly 
afterwards cut and burnt out the part?—No. 
Do you think that hydrophobia can be communicated unless 
the virus can be made to enter into the circulation, that is, 
unless the skin be punctured ?—Of the skin generally I should 
say no; but as to the more delicate skin of the lips and mouth, 
it is a doubtful question, a question to which I could not give a 
decisive answer; and I w ould give as a reason, that there are 
two or three cases on record. There is one of a physician la¬ 
bouring under hydrophobia taking leave of his children, and 
kissing them; one of them became hydrophobous, the disease 
being communicated by the kiss. I would state again, that a 
man died of hydrophobia, w T ho persisted that he had not been 
bitten by any dog; but it w r as recollected afterwards, that he 
had been endeavouring to untie with his teeth the knot of a 
rope by which a rabid dog had been fastened a few weeks 
before; therefore it is a question I cannot answer. I attended, 
a fortnight ago, the eldest son of a nobleman. A little cur, a 
vermin dog, of which he was very fond, had been suffered to 
lick his lips. On a certain morning, when the dog came into 
the room with his valet, he seemed more than usually fond of 
his master, and insinuated his tongue into the mouth of the 
young man. The following day the dog did not appear well; 
the third day a physician who was in attendance on the family 
saw something suspicious about the animal, and requested that 
I might be sent for. As soon as I saw the dog I decided that 
it was rabid. A consultation was then held as to what was 
to be done with this young man; and we were both of opinion 
that it was necessary to apply the caustic to the lip, to the 
tongue, to the palate, and to every part which the saliva could 
have reached. Before, however, we absolutely determined on 
so severe an operation, a very eminent surgeon was consulted, 
and he advised that the caustic should not only be applied to 
those parts, but to every part of the mouth which could by pos¬ 
sibility be got at; and the patient was most terribly punished: 
for the caustic was applied with great but proper severity to 
every part that could be reached. 
In the tw o previous cases which you referred to, and which I 
presume are on record, had it been ascertained that the children 
had not also been bitten ; and also, may not the lips of the person 
who tried to untie the knot have been sore ?—Those are questions 
