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healing quickly, no further notice was taken of it. During Sun- 
day last he complained of severe pains in the neck, and a peculiar 
uneasiness about the throat; and on Monday last unequivocal 
symptoms of the frightful disease under which he was suffering 
were indicated. He died in the evening of that day. 
The circumstances that have already been stated were laid 
before the jury, and others that are dreadful to think of. At the 
time that this fellow was bitten he was in the act of tying a tin 
kettle to the tail of a dog. The bite was on the lower part of the 
left cheek. The dog was a sort of tan-terrier, and on the following 
day was again seen about the premises, when three dogs belong- 
ing to the yard set upon him, and broke three of his ribs, and other- 
wise mangled him ; he, however, escaped into a neighbouring gen- 
tleman’s grounds, where, a few days afterwards, it was found dead. 
One of the other dogs has since died, and the other two were kept 
tied up, but had shewn no symptoms of being in a rabid state. 
The Coroner recommended that, to prevent the possibility of any 
further mischief, they should be destroyed. 
Mr. Depkeil, the house surgeon of the hospital, stated that when 
the deceased was brought in he was suffering from tetanus. Medi- 
cines were administered to him, but he continued to get worse. 
Between nine and ten o’clock he became excessively violent, and 
at ten minutes before eleven o’clock expired. 
Coroner : Of what disease did he, in your opinion, die 1 — Wit- 
ness : Hydrophobia — the symptoms were decidedly marked. 
Coroner : You have, I believe, no cure for that malady 1 — Wit- 
ness : None whatever. 
By the suggestion of the Coroner, the jury returned a verdict 
that “ the deceased died from hydrophobia.” 
DEATH FROM GLANDERS. 
The Paris Moniteur of Monday quotes the following in a letter 
from Carcassonne : — “ M. Basle, veterinary surgeon of the 9th 
Chasseurs, and who was married only three weeks ago, died on 
the 31st of December, of glanders, caught while attending a horse 
ill of that disease. It appears that the contagion of this cruel 
malady was communicated to the olfactory organs through the 
indiscreet zeal of M. Basle, who, wishing to investigate all the 
symptoms of the animal, had the imprudence to smell and inhale 
the odour arising from the matter discharged from the horse’s 
nostrils.” The Moniteur is in error in supposing that deaths from 
