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wild, but there is no watching or anxiety or eagerness about 
imaginary or surrounding objects — he is restless, and appears to 
be in great pain, but unless he is spoken to, he takes no notice 
of any person or thing. I should probably have considered it as 
some nervous affection, perhaps incipient tetanus, had not I 
known that he had been bitten by a rabid dog. He had licked 
the hands both of the lady to whom he belonged and her 
daughter, and there were sores on both. I, therefore, wished 
to provide against the worst, and entreated them to submit to 
the application of the caustic, to which they immediately con- 
sented. 
26th . — The disease has more the character of tetanus. His 
favourite posture, when he can obtain it, is to stand with his 
hind legs apart, with his head drawn on the left side, touching 
the ground, and thus supporting part of his weight. He cannot, 
however, retain this position more than a few minutes, and then 
he totters and falls on the left side. He now begins to cry 
sadly, and incessantly works himself about ; until he has either 
been placed, or, by the help of something against which to lean, 
has placed himself, in the old position. There is no disposition 
to bite, except when he is meddled with. The countenance 
expresses intense anxiety, mingled with increasing ferocity. 
He refuses to eat, but drinks a little. I endeavoured to conceal 
a strong dose of calomel in his water, but he discovered it in a 
moment, and never drank afterwards. 
27th . — He died to-day, after lying nearly motionless for the 
last twelve hours. The dissection proved unequivocally that it 
was a case of rabies. 
RESEARCHES ON THE PRODUCTION OF HAIR ON 
THE MUCOUS COAT OF THE DIGESTIVE CANAL 
OF HERBIVOROUS ANIMALS, AND PARTICU- 
LARLY OF THE HORSE. 
By M. Maillet, Royal Veterinary School , Alfort. 
The numerous points of analogy which exist between the 
mucous and cutaneous portions of the integumental system have 
long been known to anatomists. The continuity of the mucous 
membrane and of the skin at the natural orifices forming, out of 
these two membranes, a continuous system, everywhere in con- 
tact with substances foreign to the frame — the follicular and 
alveolar depressions, found equally in both — the superposition of 
the several tissues of which both the one and the other are 
formed — these arc points of resemblance that have not escaped 
