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which small-pox was communicated to this creature, notwith¬ 
standing its very close association with mankind, and consequent 
exposure to infection.* Greve inoculated eight dogs with the 
matter of human small-pox, and three of them became covered 
with pustules and died. Vaccination only develops insignificant 
bullse containing pus ; scarcely any “ pit ” remains. 
I am not aware that variola lias ever been observed in the cat. 
Camel-Pox. 
The camel has long been known to suffer from variola. Ag¬ 
nelli, in 1850, observed an outbreak among camels in Algeria, the 
symptoms of which were like those of cow-pox, especially when 
transmitted to mankind. When the Arabs were inoculated with 
the lymph they were protected from small-pox. Masonf makes 
similar remarks with regard to the camel in India. He mentions 
the accidental and artificial transmission of the disorder to the 
human species, and states that when children were inoculated 
from the camel they had a more or less general eruption, which 
was nearly always malignant, exceptionally mortal. 
Variola in Hares and Rabbits. 
Hares and rabbits are said to have a form of variola, especially 
in north Germany, and which sometimes is very malignant. It 
has been believed for a long time, in those countries in which 
sheep-pox is prevalent, that rabbits receive infection from these 
in grazing on the same pastures; and it has even been asserted 
that whole warrens have been cleared of their inmates by the 
transmitted disease. Astruc, Paulet and Gasparin, a French 
authority and good observer, state that sheep-pox is frequently 
*The supposed cases of transmission are not all conclusive. They are gen¬ 
erally of the same kind as that detailed by a writer (G. A. C.) in the Field for 
September 2d, 1871. “ Two or three members of the family of a person who 
was rearing a beagle for me, were ill of small-pox, aud some of the bedclothes 
were being steeped in water preparatory to washing them. The beagle was 
seen to Jap some of the water, aud in a few df>ys he died, covered with small¬ 
pox. Cases of dogs taking the disease have happened, I believe, but very 
rarely.” 
tNarrative of a journey to Kkelat, Trans, of Med. and Phys. Soc. of Bombay 
1840, p. 214. 
