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a copious flow of tears and muco-purulent matter, showing 
that pus will form within twelve hours, an authenticated fact 
worth knowing. 
Perhaps some of your readers may be able to throw some 
light on this point, viz. in how short a time has pus or matter 
been known to form? Authentic observations of this kind 
are always useful. 
The groom accounted for the accident by saying that the 
horse had had a fit ; but I think it more than probable that 
the wound was caused by a dung fork incautiously left in the 
stable. 
Eleven days after insertion the sutures were removed, and 
notwithstanding the magnitude of the wound the horse ap- 
peared to suffer very little inconvenience from it. The case, 
in fact, did well from first to last. The sutures were removed 
in eleven, and the patient was discharged cured in fifteen 
days. 
The horse does not seem to be inconvenienced by the loss 
of the nictitans membrane, that provision which nature has 
made for the removal of dust, flies, and other foreign bodies 
from the surface of the eye. Beyond the anodyne draught 
and purge which were given as already mentioned, nothing 
in the way of treatment was done or even required, excepting 
the observance of cleanliness, which was ensured by frequently 
bathing the injured parts with tepid water. 
FURTHER REPORT OF CASES OF RABIES IN 
LANCASHIRE. 
By W. Worthington, M.R.C.V.S., Wigan. 
I again send you a communication on rabies, from which 
it will be seen that this fearful disease is unfortunately not 
yet extinct in this part of Lancashire. Since the publication 
of the four cases recorded in the Veterinarian for March, 
two more have come under my notice in the immediate neigh- 
bourhood of this town. 
The first occurred on the 1st of April in a ewe at Parbold 
Hall, the place it will, perhaps, be remembered, where one of 
the above four cases died, and it was supposed that the 
ewe had been bitten at the same time as that animal was, 
as the dogs passed through the flock to which this particular 
sheep belonged. 
