The licking of wounds is an occasional mode of infection, the rabid dog in the early stages of the disease sometimes showing an unusual disposition to fawn upon his owner. Again particles of saliva may be projected by sneezing or otherwise and lodge on sores, or on the mucosa of the nose, eye or lip so as to cause infection. Galtier has conveyed the disease experimentally to rabbits in 11 cases out of 75 by making them breathe the atomized infecting liquid, or by dropping it into the nose. In the same way he infected Guinea pigs and sheep. Galtier and Bujwid have conveyed the disease, exceptionally, to rabbits and rats by feeding infecting emulsions. Galtier has also produced rabies in ⅒th to ⅓d of the cases operated on by instilling the virus into the eye. _Incubation._ The duration of incubation varies with the species, individual, the seat and character of the bite, the amount of virus instilled, the potency of the virus, the age, size and weight of the subject, the excitement of _rutting_, climatic or weather vicissitudes, fatigue, and nervous or febrile disorders. In the _dog_ incubation ranges from 15 to 60 days, and perhaps 4 to 6 months. It is claimed to have lasted a year but this is somewhat doubtful. In _cats_ it has varied from 15 to 60 days. In _solipeds_ it ranges usually from 20 to 45 days. The extremes stated are 15 days and 20 months. In _cattle_ it ranges from 14 to 50 days (exceptionally 70 days), in _sheep_ and _swine_ from 14 to 60 days. It has been claimed to have lasted 4 months in swine and 5 months in sheep. In _rabbits_ subdural inoculation has an incubation of 15 days, shortening in 25 removes to 8 days, and finally to 6. In _man_ incubation is alleged to be even more varied. The rule is from 14 to 64 days, but it is claimed to have been as short as three days and as long as 1 to 12 years (Chabert). In the human being, however, there is always the danger of the disease caused by simple dread (lyssophobia) and until these protracted cases can be verified by successful inoculation on the lower animals, they must be held as extremely doubtful. The Montpellier cadet has been often quoted who left, a few days after he had been bitten, spent ten years in Holland, then returning to the school and learning for the first time that his fellow cadet, who had been bitten by the same dog, had gone mad, he too became rabid without loss of time. Such cases have often been cured by moral suasion and have been seized upon to corroborate the heresy that there is no such thing as genuine rabies in man.