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LETTER TO SIR ASTLEY COOPER. 
tioii? These two recorded reports of the committee require no 
comment: they too plainly inform us that Jwe have not yet touched 
the secret spring of such unmeritorious proceedings. 
Such, however, was the ground, rotten as they themselves by 
their acts of excommunication had made it, upon which they 
chose to stand until they were requested to give an official opinion 
on the subject to the governors at their adjourned meeting in June 
last; on which occasion the following communication from 'the 
examiners was received and recorded:—That a law of the Ve¬ 
terinary College limits the examining committee to those who de¬ 
liver, or have delivered lectures on subjects connected with the 
veterinary art; and the committee do not consider that any altera’- 
tion of this law is at present necessary. This was, truly, a lucky 
find for them. I wonder who had the good fortune to discover 
that such a wise law existed; one that any ignoramus, or any 
blackguard, might confonn* with, and yet remain as unfit as ever 
to become an examiner. However,- it is not for us to find fault 
with such a law as this; it leaves the entrance-door as wide open 
as the most incompetent of us could possibly desire. 
You shall hear from me again, in continuation. 
One of the Non-Eligible. 
A CASE OF RABIES IN THE DOG. 
ByVf . Youatt. 
BEFORE I proceed to the preventive or curative treatment of 
Rabies, it may not be uninteresting or useless to narrate a few 
cases. The reader will be enabled to form a better estimate of 
the value of the opinions that have been stated, and will be better 
prepared to determine what can or ought to be done. 
A white terrier, of which no previous account could be obtained, 
except that it w^as quite well two days before, was brought- to me 
at 3 p. M., Nov. 26, 1827. The lower jaw was partially para¬ 
lysed ; the tongue hanging out, and of a dark colour; evident 
strabismus, the cornea of the left eye becoming opaque and green ; 
a slight staggering in the gait, and the eye occasionally fixed on 
or following some imaginary object. In two hours a grating 
choaking sound began to accompany each inspiration, and the 
dog worked.with his paws at the sides of his mouth, as if to get 
rid of something that excessively annoyed him. His efforts to 
accomplish this were exceedingly violent, and he rolled over and 
over in the attempt. He began to be very uneasy, and was 
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