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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
scribed on the preceding evening, now occupied almost the whole 
of the membrane, and particularly that of the septum. The 
ganglions had tripled their size, and were tender, and a purulent 
matter was discharged from the eyes. The engorgement of the 
nasal membrane, and the discharge from the nostril, were so great 
that the animal could scarcely breathe. This was a fine occasion 
to experiment on the contagious property of this description of 
acute glanders, and M. R. availed himself of it. A sound horse 
was placed on either side of this animal. They remained there 
during the continuance of these acute symptoms, and which 
lasted a full month. Every care was taken that they should 
fairly eat and drink together — their clothes were changed from 
the one to the other — they were dressed with the same comb and 
brush ; and, indeed, the connexion was so close that, almost every 
morning, the cheeks of the sound horses were covered with the 
matter which ran from the nostrils of the diseased one. 
One of these horses died of marasmus six weeks afterwards, 
but without shewing, either while living or when dead, the 
slightest character of glanders. The other is yet living, and 
perfectly sound, so far as this disease is concerned. 
A great many rabid dogs have been brought to the school 
during the last year, and have afforded opportunity for new ex- 
periments on the contagion of this fearful disease. M. R. col- 
lected from the mouth of one of these animals, who exhibited 
unequivocal symptoms of madness, a certain quantity of saliva, 
with which he inoculated a horse. He also caused another dog 
to be bitten by the rabid one. Twenty-seven days afterwards 
the latter animal became rabid and died ; but it was not until the 
eighty-sixth day after the inoculation that the disease appeared 
in the horse. Three horses and a dog were inoculated with the 
saliva of this horse. M. R. will hereafter give an account of the 
result of this inoculation ; but he thinks it proper to state, that in 
the last year he had inoculated a horse and a dog with the saliva 
of a rabid mare without the disease being communicated to either 
of them. 
On the 15th of July last a mare was bitten in three or four 
places by a rabid dog. On the 29th of August, this mare, al- 
though otherwise well, seemed to feel a great deal of pain in the 
bitten leg, and could scarcely rest her weight on it. A series of 
very remarkable nervous symptoms presented themselves, and 
were followed in the evening by a strong inclination to bite every 
thing within her reach. To this succeeded palsy: her fury then 
gradually ceased ; and she is at present in our hospital, unable to 
raise herself on account of palsy in the hind quarters. 
Not a single rabid animal that has been in our hospital dur- 
