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the present number. 
melancholy proof less, that rabies can be communicated after its 
first transmission. A human being has perished, that was bitten 
by a dog that had himself been bitten a few weeks before. 
As to the occasional or general cause of the spontaneous origin 
of rabies, we know that the theory ot M. Capello is becoming 
fashionable among some continental physicians; but we here, 
as in many other cases, only wonder and smile at the absurdity 
of fashionable doctrines and practices. 
The paper of M. Gasparin is well worthy of record; tor al¬ 
though not so full and scientific in its details as we could wish, 
it nevertheless, establishes the fact, otherwise almost incredible, 
that an animal may continue to be, to a very considerable extent, 
useful after the bone of the foot has been completely destroyed 
by disease; and that nature, amidst her wondrous resources, 
is able to supply even a second or supposititious os pedis. 
The case related by Mr. Karkeek, and which, to preserve the 
order that we wished, should have been placed before that of 
M. Gasparin, goes to establish the power of iodine over glan¬ 
dular enlargements in the quadruped. It was a great step in 
the progress of veterinary science, when the discovery of M. Coin- 
det was applied to our patients. We were, to a very pleasing 
extent, successful in cases which had previously been utterly 
intractable ; yet the iodine seemed to exert a somewhat capricious 
power. It would have influence to a certain extent, and then, 
all at once, it would deceive our wishes and expectations, and 
appear to be perfectly inert; and in moie cases than one, instead 
of reducing the morbid growth, on account of which it was ad¬ 
ministered, it would, as in the human being, waste the general 
condition and strength of the patient. It was an admirable 
improvement when the hydriodate ot potash was substituted foi 
the mineral. It will be found to succeed wheie the other seemed 
to be destitute altogether of power; it will not deceive the hope 
which it has once encouraged ; and, so far as we have had oppor¬ 
tunity of testing its agency, there is (common care being taken) 
no evil mingling with the good which it effects. A fair field is 
open for its extension to other diseases;—who will first occupy it? 
Next in our list comes an “Amateur,” a zealous and scientific 
agriculturist, and whose contribution we receive with pleasure 
and gratitude. No jealousy of such men will ever exist in our 
minds,—no contemptuous sneer will await their overtures of 
alliance in effecting the improvement and the perfection of our 
noble art. Every intelligent inquirer,—every friend to veterinary 
science—will be welcome to our ranks; and to unfounded prej udice 
and empiricism alone shallvve stand opposed. This communica¬ 
tion from Mr. Berrv (the editor of that most useful journal, the 
