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in that part of the town known as Pearl City, a large portion 

 of which is situated directly at the foot of Mt. Holyoke. In 

 this section of the mountain it is rather woody and quite a 

 place for hunting dogs, as fox hunters go there a great deal. 

 He immediately Avent there, and found a cow, six years old, 

 a good-looking animal. Her condition was very bad, eyes 

 bulging, muscles twitching, striking the ground with her 

 front feet, moaning and bellowing, frothing at the mouth, 

 arched back, and presenting symptoms of rabies. The 

 animal was immediately ordered quarantined. 



On August 28 he was again summoned to the same farm, 

 and found another cow presenting similar symptoms to the 

 first. The first cow seen was found dead at this visit. The 

 skull of No. 1 w^as opened, the brain removed and sent to 

 Dr. Langdon Frothingham at the Harvard Medical College. 

 Dr. O'Connell, having been appointed by the governor a del- 

 egate to the meeting of the United States Veterinary Medi- 

 cal Association, to be held in Nashville, September 7 to 10, 

 left Holyoke on September 3, Friday evening. Before going 

 he placed the matter in the hands of Dr. John Eoberts of 

 Northampton, a graduate of McGill University, Montreal, 

 with instructions to keep a close watch of all the animals, 

 and, if any of them showed symptoms of the disease, to 

 immediately quarantine them. Upon Dr. O'Connell's arrival 

 home from Nashville, on the 12th of September, he pro- 

 ceeded at once to the aSected farm, and learned that four 

 more head had died, and also that the one that was taken 

 on the 28th was dead. Dr. Roberts reported that five of 

 them died during Dr. O'Connell's absence, all presenting the 

 same symptoms as the first cow. 



On September 13 one more was taken sick. This cow 

 died on the 18th, showing precisely the same actions and 

 symptoms as the other six, making in all seven cows which 

 there is good reason to believe had rabies. The man in 

 charge of the farm states that he lost two more cows about 

 two weeks previous to the first visit on August 25. He also 

 says that the two animals acted precisely like the ones that 

 died after the first visit. On September 23, Dr. Frothing- 

 ham reported that he had made inoculations on rabbits from 

 the brain of the diseased cow sent him, and that the rabbits 



