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brain were distended with blood 1 ’ (Med. Gazette , June 1828). 
Here is plainly enough rabies communicated to a tiped gramini¬ 
vorous animal bv the saliva of a cow. 
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M. Yern relates, that a rabid ass communicated the disease 
to a horse which stood by his side, and which died (Trolliet 
Traitt de la Rage , p. 208). This seems to be a case perfectly 
in point, and that admits of no appeal. The failure of the • 
experiments of the French professors only proves that the trans¬ 
mission of the disease is diffic ult - 
The saliva of the ruminant or the herbivorous animal may 
not be so saturated with the virus as that cf a carnivorous 
one; and it has been sufficiently established, that there is dif¬ 
ference in the power of communicating* the disease even 
in carnivorous animals. The great majority of human beings 
would escape, although bitten by a rabid dog; but, so far 
as experience goes, the great majority of those bitten by a 
wolf perish. So, I can imagine, that the disease shall not 
be so readily communicated by the saliva of the gramini¬ 
vorous animal; and this, added to the few instances in which 
the human being can be bitten or wounded by the graminivorous 
animal, may have led to the belief that it could not be commu¬ 
nicated at all. Here, however, are a few' facts to which, from 
my own experience, I am enabled to add three more; for I have 
once produced rabies in the dog by inoculation w ith the saliva 
of the ox, and twice with that of the horse; but I have failed to 
do it in very many cases. 
There are also facts on record of hydrophobia being communi¬ 
cated to the human being by the saliva of graminivorous ani¬ 
mals. They are also few ; but they establish the possibility of the 
thing. I will not recur to the strange stories of tetanus hav¬ 
ing been produced by the bite of enraged animals, and even by 
that of a cock and a duck; but M. Duplanie relates an instance 
of a man having been bitten by a rabid hare, and dying lndro- 
phobous (Portal , p. 128). 
There was an account, tw r o years ago, of a groom dying hy- 
drophobous from the bite of a horse. The circumstances and 
the authority I have not recorded. Some veterinary reader, to 
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