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administration of the usual laxative medicines, and the application 
of external stimulants, to be left to the judgment of the nearest 
practitioner. 
2. Diseases of Domestic Animals . — Professor Sewell then re- 
ported, that, the examination at the Royal Veterinary College 
being concluded for the session, ninety-three pupils had received 
diplomas ; several of whom had also obtained certificates as having 
attended the lectures and practice on cattle, sheep, and other do- 
mestic animals ; in which branch of their profession he thought 
their services to the farmer would be better secured by Agricul- 
tural Associations and Farmers’ Clubs in the country engaging 
them, at fixed moderate salaries, to settle in localities where they 
are most likely to be required. This plan had been adopted with 
great success on the continent, but it was there effected as a 
government measure, and had become a long-established law. 
3. Rabid Animals . — Professor Sewell informed the Council, 
that, keeping in view the object of the Society’s connexion with 
the Veterinary College, he had decided on devoting the period of 
his professional recess during the present autumn to a practical in- 
quiry into the most successful means by which the virus of rabid 
animals may be counteracted, and the fearful results of hydro- 
phobia obviated. He accordingly requested the co-operation of 
the members in carrying out this inquiry, and would himself will- 
ingly pay every expense connected with the sending up to the 
College, from any part of the country, of such sheep, lambs, or 
calves, as may unfortunately have been bitten by rabid dogs during 
the late hot weather, or should become liable to a similar infliction 
at any future time. He mentioned small ruminating animals only, 
as being more easily managed when labouring under the worst or 
most violent symptoms of the disease, than horses, cows, or bullocks, 
which under such circumstances are not only almost unmanageable, 
but highly dangerous ; and when such were intended to be sent to 
him, he would feel favoured by a previous notice by letter. The 
animals thus requested might be conveyed in the ordinary railway 
trucks or cars, or sent by canal boats. By the latter mode, Pro- 
fessor Sewell had received a heifer from Worcester a few years 
ago : sheep and lambs have been sent in covered carts ; but the 
most rapid conveyance is preferable. A sheep or two might be 
put into crates used for earthenware, and the expense of engaging 
an entire car be thus obviated, while the animals would be less 
annoying to the railway agents. Should the disease commence 
on the journey, the animals should be tied by the legs, and be well 
littered with straw. Net muzzles might be worn, or sent along 
with the animals in order to be in readiness. Professor Sewell lias 
however, never had any fear of rabies being produced by the bite 
