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invite the agriculturists and the principals of great rural 
economies; in a word, all persons who, like veterinarians, 
are interested in rural economy. 
All persons accepting this invitation are requested to com- 
municate with us, without delay, to the School of Veterinary 
Medicine, Cureghem Bruxelles. 
The Committee of Organization of the Congress, 
A. Thiernesse, 
F. Defays, 
Wehenkel. 
This would have been our programme had we been put in 
a position to fulfil the mission entrusted to us. 
Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire. 
FATAL ERRORS IN RABIES. 
By M. Decroix, Y.S. in the Imperial Guards* 
M. Decroix believes that the imagination of the unfor* 
tunate individuals who are bitten by mad or supposed mad 
dogs is often fatally excited by the expressions used by those 
v r ho describe the malady — such as frightful,horrible, atrocious, 
&c. Having been in a position which enabled him to study 
this malady, not only in books but also on individuals and 
animals, either as an observer or experimentally, he en- 
deavours to show that it is not so dreadful as it has been 
described. 
First, that the malady is not so transmissible from the 
animal to man, or even from one animal to another, as is 
generally supposed. 
From statistics carefully made by M. Renault, “ two 
thirds, at least, of those who are bitten by dogs, either mad 
or supposed to be, escaped the infection without any medical 
treatment whatever.” If thus two thirds, let us bear this in 
mind, escape when the wound inflicted is left to itself, what 
must it be when the w ? ound is medically treated by washing 
and cauterising? which should be done every time any one 
is bitten by a strange dog. The chances of transmission are 
so much reduced that some ignorant quacks have been able to 
make many believe in the efficacy of their pretended preserva- 
tives which, however, possess no other merit than having 
been for a number of times employed on individuals who 
would never have taken the malady. 
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