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proper test would be to inoculate with the spume from the 
bronchial ,tubes. M. Trolliet has not done this ; and I take 
some shame to myself for losing several opportunities of setting 
this question at rest. 
At an uncertain, but not late period of the disease, there 
is an increased secretion of saliva, apparently of the natural 
consistence; in four-and-twenty hours it becomes more in¬ 
spissated, and then begins to irritate the fauces, either by 
adhering to them, or by the acrimony which it acquires. At 
that stage of the disease when the dog fights at the corners of 
his mouth to get rid of something which dreadfully annoys him, 
the secretion of saliva does not exceed its usual quantity, but is 
more viscid or acrid. 
Does the rabid virus retain its energy after the death of the 
animal ?—This is an interesting question to the veterinary 
surgeon, who is so often called on to examine the rabid animal, 
and it does not appear to have been sufficiently examined into. 
Indeed it has seldom been mooted. Medical men have taken it 
for granted, that the disease might be communicated by the 
saliva with equal certainty before and after the death of the 
dog. As opportunity serves, this shall be put to the test of re¬ 
peated experiment. 
- My present belief is, that the power of the virus ceases with 
the life of the animal. At all events, I have hitherto escaped, 
although, in many dissections, the saliva, notwithstanding con¬ 
siderable care, must have come into abundant contact with my 
hands, and they were not always sound. 
THE VETERINARIAN, MAY 1 , 1828 . 
Licet omnibus, licet etiam mihi dignitatem artis veterinaria tueri.’'^— Cicero. 
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ON Wednesday the 9th ult. was the anniversary dinner given 
by the students of the Veterinary College, in honour of their 
professors and those lecturers whose Theatres had been liberally 
thrown open to them. 
