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been resorted to in one unfortunate case: but the horse had two 
strangulated hernise ; the strangulation had existed twenty-two 
hours ; more than two feet of the small intestine had descended 
into the scrotum, and that portion of intestine was already dis- 
tended by gas. 
Rabies. — A singular case of rabies occurred during the last 
month in a filly, five months old. Five weeks before she had 
been bitten by a rabid dog. During two days she presented 
almost every symptom of rabies. Sometimes she was calm, at 
other times she exhibited a universal convulsive agitation. She 
stamped and kicked, and especially bit at every thing within 
her reach. Abandoning herself to the dreadful impulse of the 
disease, she furiously seized her own breast and fore arms, and 
shook the skin, and endeavoured to tear it away with her teeth. 
If she was threatened with a stick, she sprung at it, and bit it, 
and shook it again and again. Her eye was open, and fright- 
fully brilliant ; and her lips covered with foam. Like the rabid 
dog, far from dreading the sight of water, she rushed to the pail 
that was presented to her, and plunged her muzzle into it, but 
without swallowing a drop : again she would dash at it, and 
plunge the lower part of her face into it. To a greater extent than 
in dogs that have died rabid, we failed in finding any satisfactory 
morbid lesions after death. 
This was too favourable an opportunity to be suffered to es- 
cape for trying the effect of the saliva of a rabid herbivorous ani- 
mal. We introduced under the skin of a horse a small pledget 
of tow that had been abundantly impregnated with her saliva. 
We removed the epidermis, and rubbed some of the saliva on 
various parts of the same horse ; we also inoculated a dog in 
the same manner ; and when the filly was dead, we gave her 
tongue to another dog, and he ate it. In none of these animals 
was rabies produced. 
Swelled Legs. — At the close of the last wet and snowy win- 
ter, a great many horses with swelled legs were brought to the 
infirmary. Emollient applications were used at the commence- 
ment, and, after that, an ointment composed of lard, honey, and 
subacetate of copper, and seconded sometimes by a seton in the 
upper part of the limb : these means were usually successful. In 
some of these horses the engorgement of the lymphatics on the 
inner face of the thigh having caused us to fear the development of 
farcy, we prevented or arrested this evil, by excising, to a greater 
or less extent, the vessels already affected. Towards the end of 
the year we obtained very good results from the use of a solution 
of sub-acetate of copper in the proportion of two ounces to a 
pint and a half of water ; in cases of inveterate swelled legs, ac- 
