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preceding. Dec. IS, less trembling than before. At 4 P. M. 

 put in the whole of rabbit No. 7 of which we had made post 

 mortem examination. She began eating it at once. Though 

 the rabbit weighed 24 ounces she had at 8 o'clock the next 

 morning eaten the greater part and seemed satisfied after such a 

 hearty meal. All day she seemed to feel good and did not usually 

 tremble except after exercise or drinking cold milk, when the 

 trembling was very strong. More active than previously, had 

 ceased to show much fear. The next morning she had taken the 

 rest of the meat, the parts remaining being the skull, hind leg 

 bones, considerable of the skin and the large intestine containing 

 snake-root. She seemed no worse. Next day, Dec. 21st, 7:20 

 A. M., no trembling till after some exercise; temperature 102.9°. 

 At 4:40 P. M. no trembling could be seen. She seemed entirely 

 well. I began to wonder if eating second rabbit would have 

 any effect. That day I offered her milk in which snake-root had 

 been soaked but she took very little of it. 



Dec. 22nd, she seemed pretty well and was put in a shed 

 from which she escaped and I did not expect to see her again,, 

 nor care, as I had seen no reason to suppose she would show 

 anything more of interest. She was not gone long, however, 

 but adopted the shed for her home, spending most of the time in 

 a basket with a flannel cloth in the bottom and paper under the 

 handle partly covering her and helping to keep her warm. She 

 evidently had not got rid of the rabbit and it was making her 

 trouble. Constipation, though not complete, seemed to continue 

 as long as she lived. The hind legs were spread apart more and 

 more each day. She was allowed to go and come as she pleased 

 and for a number of days I thought she would recover. On 

 Dec. 28, she caught sight of a rabbit I had left on the grass and 

 started to rush at it, being restrained with difficulty. 



Meat and milk were kept by her much of the time but she 

 took little or nothing except water and a little cooked potato at 

 any time after Dec. 22nd. Dec. 30, she had been going about 

 so much that I thought she was nearly well, but at 4:30 I found 

 her temperature 103.9°, buttocks soiled, odor very bad. When 

 held up by nape, hind legs trembled. After this I think she did 

 not leave the shed but grew weaker, sometimes trembled when 

 held up, at other times not. Jan. 2nd, she seemed too weak to 

 tremVjle, had barely energy enough to crawl back into basket 

 when put down near it. At 12:30 I noticed paroxysms of 

 muscles about the shoulders. At 4 o'clock she seemed nearly 

 dead, no struggling but quiet. At 5 she was getting cold. The 

 next afternoon I opened the abdominal cavity and found two 

 ounces or more of a perfectly clear amber colored liquid of slight 

 acid reaction. No inflammation or congestion. 



(To be continued.) 



