520 THE STOCK OWXEr's ADVISER. 



brain, the principal post-mortem appearances being adema or 

 congestion, sometimes in patclies, of the brain and spinal cord. 



Peevektive Treatmea't. — This shonld not be resorted to in 

 the dog. The bitten animal shonld be destroyed at once. All 

 dogs inocnlated with rabies poison do not become mad, bnt the 

 risk is so great, and the mischief thev may inflict of so grave im- 

 portance, that no chances should be taken. 



If a person has been bitten, a complete excision of the bitten 

 surface should be made as soon as possible after the injury. The 

 knife should not come in contact with, but should be carefully 

 passed beneath, the bitten surface. After excision is completed, 

 the parts should be burned with a pencil of nitrate of silver, ap- 

 plied to every recess and sinuosity of the wound. AVhere this 

 treatment is carried out in man, seven out of ten escape, while if 

 no such means are used eight out of the ten die. 



Pasteur has given to the world a method by which those bitten 

 can be rendered insusceptible before the mortal malady has had. 

 time to declare itself. Those bitten should, if possible, be sent to 

 his institution for treatment. 



