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in the dog^ and througli tlie dog' to tlio lunnan 

 race, it would be an article published in the 

 London Medical Record ^ wliich has now recently 

 been Ijrought to my notice. 



It appears under the head '^ Hydrophobia," and 

 delivers itself as follows : — 



^^At the meetino' of the French Academy of 

 Sciences, on April loth, M. Boulay laid before 

 it a memoir by M. Bourrel, a veterinary surgeon 

 of Paris, entitled ^ A Complete Treatise on Eal)ies 

 in the Dog and Cat, with a Method of Preserving 

 Oneself against It.' " 



The Medical Recoixl — Heaven save the mark ! — 

 goes on to state : — '' The means of preserving from 

 rabies, to make known and disseminate the know- 

 ledge of wliich is the principle aim of this memoir, 

 consist in taking ofP tlie edge of the teeth of the 

 dog by the aid of nippers and tiles. M. Bourrel 

 had the daring to ])erform this operation of tiling 

 down the teeth on three dogs when they were in 

 a condition of raging madness, notwithstanding the 

 dano^or of inoculation he incurred both during 

 the preliminaries and the different stages of the 

 process." 



Reader, I pause here to ask you if it might 



