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By comparing our registers of canine mortality : we see that since 
the year 1811, 779 dogs have been attacked by rabies : we have 
seen it at every period of the year, but varying in its intensity. 
In June the greatest number of cases have appeared; in April it 
was next frequent; then in a decreasing proportion were the months 
of May, July, August, March, September, February, October, 
in each month, 
reckoning from the year 1811, 
was as follows : 
January . 
. . 58 
July . . 
. 71 
February . 
. . 60 
August 
. 71 
March 
. . 61 
September 
. 61 
April . . 
. . 79 
October . 
. 58 
May . . 
. . 67 
November 
. 59 
June . 
. . 67 
December. 
. 49 
During these 30 years 779 dogs died rabid, 1000 died of other 
maladies, and 750 incurables were abandoned or destroyed. There 
perished from one disease — fearful and contagious to the human 
being — nearly as many dogs as were destroyed by every other 
cause. 
We are, therefore, compelled to consider the dog as a source of the 
greatest danger — a companion whom we must continually regard 
with the most watchful care. One thing, however, must be ac- 
knowledged, that every dog suspected of being rabid is at once 
destroyed or hurried away to the hospital, while thousands of others 
labouring under various maladies are taken care of in the domicile 
of their masters. 
Farcy. 
One of the maladies that presents itself most frequently is farcy : 
345 horses, 25 mules, and 3 asses have been treated for farcy tu- 
mours in different parts. They have oftenest been observed on the 
chest, and particularly along the subcutaneous thoracic vein. A 
treatment entirely external has been attended with good effects. 
It has only been necessary to sacrifice a few attacked with farcy 
in the hind limbs, or in the hollow of the nasal cavities. The ar- 
senical paste — the vesicatory before its softening — the cautery 
with the red iron after the formation of pus, were the means that 
were employed with the greatest advantage. 
Precise observation taken in the localities inhabited by these 
animals have shewn us that farcy develops itself in all situations — 
in the plain as well as in the mountain, and in the driest places as 
well as those saturated by moisture. Nevertheless, this last cause 
is the most influential. It was in the confines near the plain of 
Dauphiny, or Guillotiere, that we had the greatest number of sick 
