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THE VETERINARY SCHOOL AT LYONS. 
testines, the caecum, and a part of the colon. During life there was con- 
siderable debility on the first day; the extremities were hot — the scrotum 
infiltrated with serous fluid, and an oedematous tumour appearing under 
the belly. 
Twice we had, on different patients, acute founder, which, however, soon 
passed away. 
The treatment consisted in the employment of bleeding, the exhibition of 
cooling medicines, and certain cutaneous revulsions. The bleeding was 
seldom repeated, unless the pulse continued evidently hard. The cooling 
medicines were nitrated or acidulated drinks — vinegar or sulphuric acid. 
The revulsions consisted in the application of mustard poultices on various 
parts of the body, with the exception of the chest, where an oedematous en- 
gorgement would have been the consequence. We very rarely had recourse 
to setons in the chest : in one case their employment produced very con- 
siderable swelling. While pneumonia was indicated, blisters were, in prefer- 
ence, applied to the chest. 
Rabies. — During the last year rabies has been exceedingly prevalent 
among dogs. Out of sixty-four that were placed under surveillance, thirty- 
three exhibited symptoms of madness, and were destroyed. It is to the 
sudden depression of temperature after considerable heat, and also to certain 
causes of coldness of the skin, that the frequency of rabies is to be traced. 
The examinations after death did not afford any remarkable lesions. 
We had the opportunity of observing four cases of rabies transmitted from 
a dog. Two of the victims were horses, one an ass, and the fourth a mule. 
The horses were bitten on the right nostril, and the cautery, brought to a 
red heat, was applied to the wound a few hours afterwards. The one that 
was first bitten died twenty days afterwards. Two dogs were inoculated with 
the saliva pfocured from the mule, but without effect. 
If veterinary science is not sufficiently advanced to discover a cure for 
rabies, we at least have obtained some information with regard to the trans- 
missibilitv of the disease. We have commenced some experiments on ani- 
mals of different species, in order to assure ourselves whether the rabid 
virus, as is pretended by the Italian physicians, really loses its contagious 
properties, not only in passing from one species to another, but from one in- 
dividual to another of the same species. We are already in possession of 
some facts which somewhat tend to prove that the virus preserves its power 
in passing though many animals. A dog labouring under rabies that had 
been twice communicated to him, has produced the disease on another 
animal of the same species. A ram aged fifteen months was bitten in the 
lip by a dog affected with spontaneous rabies. The disease was sufficiently 
plain eleven days after the bite. By inoculation with a lancet the virus 
of this animal communicated the disease to another ram in whom the disease 
appeared thirty-five days afterwards. This is a singular example of the 
disease being communicated from one ram to another, although it was 
originally obtained from a carnivorous animal. 
In these experiments we found that, of two dogs bitten, the one immedi- 
ately after the other, the first only contracted the disease. May we say with 
Dr. Mazochetti, that the virus is diminished in power after the first inocu- 
lation ? 
[To be continued.] 
