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hoarse cough, abundant flow of saliva from the mouth ; and the fits of 

 violence are more aggravated and prolonged than they are in the dog. 

 Gradually the fury becomes permanent, and the horse, prostrate, dies in 

 convulsions on the second, third, or fourth day. 



When the disease has set in, treatment is of no avail, and it is best to 

 shoot the animal. 



Bites by rabid animals should be treated at once. If possible, the 

 tissues around the injury should be excised. If the wound be superficial, 

 the apphcation of caustic will be sufficient. If it be deep, the parts must be 

 excised and then cauterised, or treated with caustics, such as nitrate of 

 silver, carbolic acid, or caustic potash. 



Recently M. Pasteur has devised a method by which he inoculates with 

 what is termed "vaccine" or "attenuated virus," animals bitten by rabid 

 creatures ; and by this means he claims to prevent the development of this 

 dread malady. M. Pasteur has done so much in the way of practical preventive 

 therapeutics that we have good reason to expect that this method, too, may 

 prove as practically successful as his former wonderful and ingenious 

 discoveries, of which his countrymen have indeed good reason to be proud. 



Since writing the above for the columns of " The Yorkshire Weekly 

 Post," more proofs of the value of M. Pasteur's treatment have been 

 forthcomincf. 



