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scrvations of that zealous experimenter. Dr. Hering, of Philadel- 
phia, on the poisons of animals and of man, that the promptest 
remedy, and the truly specific one for rabies, is the rabid virus 
itself administered in the same manner as homoeopathic remedies 
are.” 
The feeling which the concluding paragraphs will excite, would, 
perhaps, require from me an apology for having occupied the 
time of the reader about such nonsense : — 
“ A boy was bitten by a rabid dog : his father sprang at the 
animal, seized it by the throat, and strangled it, but not without 
being bitten likewise. He immediately opened the dog, tore out 
its lungs, and, observing four scissures in them, he said it was a 
sign that the dog had been mad four days. He then roasted the 
lungs, and he and his son ate them up, in the firm belief that 
this would preserve them from hydrophobia. This circumstance 
coming to the knowledge of the Council of Health at Leipzig, 
official researches were made into the matter; the result of which 
was that this eating of the roasted lungs of the rabid dog was an 
effectual preventive against rabies, and that there were persons 
then living who had adopted his precaution, and still lived, al- 
though they had been bitten by dogs decidedly mad. These 
individuals had recourse to no other preservative means. ,, 
‘‘This account is confirmatory of the doctrine of isopathie,” 
says the editor. “ It would be interesting if this experiment, so 
easy to be made, were repeated, for we might obtain from it a 
preservative against the most hideous of diseases ! ! !” — I will not 
add another word. 
Y. 
INVERSION OF THE BLADDER DURING PARTURITION, 
AND THE REMOVAL OF PART OF THAT VISCUS. 
By M. Canu, Sen. 
On the 25th of May I was requested to see a mare labouring 
under difficult parturition. She was lying on her left side, co- 
vered with sweat, evidently in great pain, and the throes being 
continual and violent: the proprietor had, at length, endeavoured 
to assist her, and the foal had been born about half an hour. It 
had come in its natural position, and the birth was effected with- 
out much difficulty. A portion of some membranous substance, 
which hung from the vulva, made me suspect an inversion of the 
vagina or the uterus. The proprietor said that he had been long 
attempting to return this protruded substance, but had not 
been able to accomplish it. I examined it with care, but could 
