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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 itis 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 application 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 
forthcoming. 
