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question. An ass and a horse were submitted to experiment. 
The former of these animals is not apt to be affected by this dis- 
ease. We selected one that was twelve years old, and apparently 
healthy and strong, and by means of a large lancet we inserted 
into his loins, on both sides, some laudable pus, obtained from 
tumours that had passed into the state of abscesses, in a horse that 
had farcy more than a month. No appearances of inflammation 
were discoverable around the punctures when, on the fifteenth day, 
the animal died. 
The other subject for experiment was a little bat horse, six years 
old, that appeared to be in good health when he was quiet, but that 
could not be trotted without exhibiting sad heaving at the flanks, 
and distress. We punctured him in four places on each side, using 
matter taken from the same horse. This was on the 10th of April. 
Twenty days after the operation, two of the punctures that had 
apparently healed, became enlarged. The lips of these minute 
wounds again opened, and the parts became red and tender. The 
tumour continued to increase in size, and, soon, a small quantity of 
puriform matter began to be discharged. Four days afterwards, 
the same process commenced in two other of the punctures. About 
the forty-eighth day these four tumours had become as large as a 
nut. Ramifying from these points, several distinct, prominent 
cords were travelling over the croup, and here and there were pro- 
minences or buds which became ulcerated. Five or six days after- 
wards the farcy eruption began to spread over other parts of the 
body. A line of them having appeared in the neighbourhood of 
the left glosso-facial vein, the submaxillary lymphatic glands on 
that side began to enlarge, and towards the end of the month of 
June, there was a slight discharge from the left nostril. In July 
the discharge from the pituitary membrane had ceased — the swell- 
ing of the ganglions had subsided, and the farcy tumours having 
suppurated, had been converted into ulcers. There were few parts 
of the body — the limbs excepted — which had not become the seat 
of successive farcy-tumours at the commencement of August : but 
the loins, the original seat of inoculation, were the parts in which 
the inflammation Avas most intense. 
This poor fellow is yet living, and, although sadly emaciated, he 
preserves his appetite, and looks likely to live for some time to 
come. We shall have more to say about him in our next report. 
Rabies has not been more common than usual in the dog during 
the cold and wet periods of the year; but the variety termed dumb 
madness has mostly prevailed. This last form of it is generally 
characterized at its commencement by an alteration in the sound of 
the voice : the bark is cut short and sharpened in its tone — there 
is a peculiar kind of inquietude about the dog — a vague nervous 
