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preceding. Dec. LS, less trembling than before. At 4 P. M. 
put in the whole of rabbit No. 7 of which we had made post 
mortem examination. She began eating it at once. Though 
the rabbit weighed 24 ounces she had at <S o’clock the next 
morning eaten the greater j>art and seemed satisfied after such a 
hearty meal. All day she seemed to feel good and did not usually 
tremble except after exercise or drinking cold milk, when the 
trembling was very strong. More active than previously, had 
ceased to show much fear. The next morning she had taken the 
rest of the meat, the parts remaining being the skull, hind leg 
bones, considerable of the skin and the large intestine containing 
snake-root. She seemed no worse. Next day, Dec. 21st, 7:20 
A. M., no trembling till after some exercise; temperature 102.9°. 
At 4:40 P. M. no trembling could be seen. She seemed entirely 
well. I began to wonder if eating second rabbit would have 
any effect. That day I offered her milk in which snake-root had 
been soaked but she took very little of it. 
Dec. 22nd, she seemed pretty well and was put in a shed 
from which she escaped and I did not expect to see her again, 
nor care, as I had seen no reason to suppose she would show 
anything more of interest. She was not gone long, however, 
but adopted the shed for her home, spending most of the time in 
a basket with a flannel cloth in the bottom and paper under the 
handle partly covering her and helping to keep her warm. She 
evidently had not got rid of the rabbit and it was making her 
trouble. Constipation, though not complete, seemed to continue 
as long as she lived. The hind legs were spread apart more and 
more each day. She was allowed to go and come as she pleased 
and for a number of days I thought she would recover. On 
Dec. 2S, she caught sight of a rabbit I had left on the grass and 
started to rush at it, being restrained with difficulty. 
Meat and milk were kept by her much of the time but she 
took little or nothing except water and a little cooked potato at 
any time after Dec. 22nd. Dec. 30, she had been going about 
so much that I thought she was nearly well, but at 4:30 I found 
her temperature 103.9°, buttocks soiled, odor very bad. When 
held up bv nape, hind legs trembled. After this I think she did 
not leave the shed but grew weaker, sometimes trembled when 
held up, at other times not. Jan. 2nd, she seemed too weak to 
tremble, had barely energy enough to crawl back into basket 
when put down near it. At 12:30 I noticed paroxysms of 
muscles about the shoulders. At 4 o’clock she seemed nearly 
dead, no struggling but quiet. At 5 she was getting cold. The 
next afternoon I opened the abdominal cavity and found two 
ounces or more of a perfectly clear amber colored liquid of slight 
acid reaction. No inflammation or congestion. 
(To be continued.) 
