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COMMUNICATION OF RABIES THROUGH THE MILK. (?)
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sesquipedatia verba (quite as long as any of his with her for a fortnight after the bites were dead worms) are evidently strung together received, but were then separated from her;
a bait for the capacious gorge of the she was bitten and torn considerably about credulous: who, after bolting them, must the head. The other, also, had one JiLmb naturally have a strong relish of the author’s (a ram) with her; she had one bite only in extraordinary learning. It is no compli- the neck, which, however, was a severe one. ment to the present age, nor to the county The lamb was allowed to suck her the same in which I live, to say that he has contrived time as the others. About six weeks after by this species of clap-trap to worm him- the bites the first ewe evinced the following self into the confidence of hundreds, who symptoms. She was very often seen pawing seem to be as much infatuated with his and striking the other sheep like a ram pretensions as were the superstitious boors (a very unusual circumstance) ; she was of Kent with the blasphemous fooleries of strongly convulsed at intervals; she con. Mad Thom of Canterbury. tinually turned her head to her side in a This bastard doctor, since the recent de- convulsive manner; the bowels were very feat of the dowagers of Rhubarb Hall, can. much constipated, and what little came from not, of course, be supposed to have the fear her was of a red colour; she refused all of the Apothecaries’ Society before his eyes; food. These symptoms continued, but with nay, he may even take shelter under the old always increasing violence, for about eight lasses’ petticoats. You may, therefore, days, when, all hope of her recovery being perhaps suppose, as there is no other means abandoned, she was destroyed. A day or of punishing him than exposure, thathave two afterwards the other ewe became affect. dealt with him too mildly; but you must ed in the same manner. She was killed upon pardon my gentle nature. I promise you, the seventh day. Nine or ten days after the however, that whenever he, or any other death of the last sheep, the ram lamb was blustering upstart like him, again crosses attacked in the same way as its mother; it my path, 1 will hand him over to the tender was, however, much more violent, butting at mercies of the British Medical Association. the other sheep, and at the hurdles, and at I have merely tickled him a little with my anything else that came in its way; its con. light switch of criticism ; that body would, vulsions were more violent, and it was condoubtless, chastise him with a whip of tinually tearing the wool from its side; it scorpions. expressed no uneasiness at the sight of The quack is now at Marlbrough, where, water in a ditch, part of which was enclosed I fear, the ghost of the defunct Apotheca- along with it by some hurdles : it was killed ries’ Act is not likely to molest him. All, a week after the first appearance of the indeed, it could now say to him would be, symptoms. The other lambs were attacked 11 Go on, Dr. Fowler, go on thy way re- about the same time ;but were not so violent as the ram : they were killed at the same joicing ; go on and prosper !" The doctor (by the way) was mulct in a time as their case appeared equally hopeless. penalty for a breach of the Game Laws, a i The great singularity which is observable few days since. Thus, by a monstrous in these cases, is that the lambs became rabid anomaly in the law, the man who is made merelyfrom sucking ewes which had been bit. to pay three pounds odd shillings for knock- ten by a mad dog, for the lambs were removed ing down a partridge, is permitted to slay from them a month befO1’e the ewes became the Queen’s lieges with impunity. affected. The lambs were all carefullyex. Z. Wiltshire, Oct. 5, 1839. amined, in order to discover any bite they might have received, but not the slightest P.S. I was puzzled at first sight to make scar could be found. The same dog bit a I out what the doctor’s preparations were, so number of other sheep in the neighbourhood, uncouth was the mode in which the clumsy the majority of which died of rabies. What executioner had gibbeted his criminals. heightens the probability that he did not Than worms, they looked more like 11 asps, bite the lambs is, the fact that in every basilisks, or toads ;" and the idea struck me other instance his bites were very severe. that the Prince of Cambay might have made He bit a man also in the hand, but the part a sumptuous breakfast upon them. was excised, and the patient has hitherto done well. No attempt was made to relieve either the ewes or the lambs. COMMUNICATION OF RABIES A MEDICAL STCDENT. THROUGH THE MILK. (?) October 14, 1839.
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To the Editor of THE LANCET.
[The above communication has been SIR:-On the 20th of May last two ewe sheep were bitten by a dog labouring under thenticated.-ED. L.] hydrophobia. One of them had two lambs at her side, which were allowed to continue
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sesquipedatia verba (quite as long as any of his with her for a fortnight after the bites were dead worms) are evidently strung together received, but were then separated from her;
a bait for the capacious gorge of the she was bitten and torn considerably about credulous: who, after bolting them, must the head. The other, also, had one JiLmb naturally have a strong relish of the author’s (a ram) with her; she had one bite only in extraordinary learning. It is no compli- the neck, which, however, was a severe one. ment to the present age, nor to the county The lamb was allowed to suck her the same in which I live, to say that he has contrived time as the others. About six weeks after by this species of clap-trap to worm him- the bites the first ewe evinced the following self into the confidence of hundreds, who symptoms. She was very often seen pawing seem to be as much infatuated with his and striking the other sheep like a ram pretensions as were the superstitious boors (a very unusual circumstance) ; she was of Kent with the blasphemous fooleries of strongly convulsed at intervals; she con. Mad Thom of Canterbury. tinually turned her head to her side in a This bastard doctor, since the recent de- convulsive manner; the bowels were very feat of the dowagers of Rhubarb Hall, can. much constipated, and what little came from not, of course, be supposed to have the fear her was of a red colour; she refused all of the Apothecaries’ Society before his eyes; food. These symptoms continued, but with nay, he may even take shelter under the old always increasing violence, for about eight lasses’ petticoats. You may, therefore, days, when, all hope of her recovery being perhaps suppose, as there is no other means abandoned, she was destroyed. A day or of punishing him than exposure, thathave two afterwards the other ewe became affect. dealt with him too mildly; but you must ed in the same manner. She was killed upon pardon my gentle nature. I promise you, the seventh day. Nine or ten days after the however, that whenever he, or any other death of the last sheep, the ram lamb was blustering upstart like him, again crosses attacked in the same way as its mother; it my path, 1 will hand him over to the tender was, however, much more violent, butting at mercies of the British Medical Association. the other sheep, and at the hurdles, and at I have merely tickled him a little with my anything else that came in its way; its con. light switch of criticism ; that body would, vulsions were more violent, and it was condoubtless, chastise him with a whip of tinually tearing the wool from its side; it scorpions. expressed no uneasiness at the sight of The quack is now at Marlbrough, where, water in a ditch, part of which was enclosed I fear, the ghost of the defunct Apotheca- along with it by some hurdles : it was killed ries’ Act is not likely to molest him. All, a week after the first appearance of the indeed, it could now say to him would be, symptoms. The other lambs were attacked 11 Go on, Dr. Fowler, go on thy way re- about the same time ;but were not so violent as the ram : they were killed at the same joicing ; go on and prosper !" The doctor (by the way) was mulct in a time as their case appeared equally hopeless. penalty for a breach of the Game Laws, a i The great singularity which is observable few days since. Thus, by a monstrous in these cases, is that the lambs became rabid anomaly in the law, the man who is made merelyfrom sucking ewes which had been bit. to pay three pounds odd shillings for knock- ten by a mad dog, for the lambs were removed ing down a partridge, is permitted to slay from them a month befO1’e the ewes became the Queen’s lieges with impunity. affected. The lambs were all carefullyex. Z. Wiltshire, Oct. 5, 1839. amined, in order to discover any bite they might have received, but not the slightest P.S. I was puzzled at first sight to make scar could be found. The same dog bit a I out what the doctor’s preparations were, so number of other sheep in the neighbourhood, uncouth was the mode in which the clumsy the majority of which died of rabies. What executioner had gibbeted his criminals. heightens the probability that he did not Than worms, they looked more like 11 asps, bite the lambs is, the fact that in every basilisks, or toads ;" and the idea struck me other instance his bites were very severe. that the Prince of Cambay might have made He bit a man also in the hand, but the part a sumptuous breakfast upon them. was excised, and the patient has hitherto done well. No attempt was made to relieve either the ewes or the lambs. COMMUNICATION OF RABIES A MEDICAL STCDENT. THROUGH THE MILK. (?) October 14, 1839.
as
II
To the Editor of THE LANCET.
[The above communication has been SIR:-On the 20th of May last two ewe sheep were bitten by a dog labouring under thenticated.-ED. L.] hydrophobia. One of them had two lambs at her side, which were allowed to continue
au.