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the bandages entirely away—and ordered port wine, bark, camphor, 
ammonia, &c. but to no purpose : the mischief was done. On the 
following morning, at four A. M., she suddenly jerked the halter I 
held in my hand, and fell, never to rise again. 
What was the cause of death 1 A question this, difficult, per¬ 
haps, to answer. Were I called in to a similar case, I should pro¬ 
bably pursue the same course, except that I might not tie the band¬ 
ages so tight, nor keep them on so long before their removal, and 
yet I was here following the dicta of the best of our profession. 
[We feel exceedingly obliged to Mr. Rush for this interesting case. 
The candour with which it is related reflects on him the highest 
credit. He followed the suggestions of the best of our writers, 
and the practice of the best of our surgeons, when he gave a mo¬ 
derate tightness to the bandage, and suffered it to remain un¬ 
touched as long as possible. He could not be answerable for 
any peculiar irritability lurking about the animal. He had se¬ 
cured himself against that as much as he could by the previous 
low diet and course of aperient medicine to which the patient 
was subjected. We recognize, in the history of this case, all the 
elements of good practice; and are assured that it reflects no dis¬ 
credit on Mr. Rush, or his brother veterinarians who kindly as¬ 
sisted at the operation.—Y.] 
CONSULTATION, No. XVI.—RABIES. 
Hamilton, N. B., 16th Oct. 1840. 
Sir, 
The celebrity of your Lectures has caused you the trouble of 
this letter. A dog, which had strayed from a gentleman living- 
in the neighbourhood of Paisley, about fifteen miles distant, of the 
Spanish kind, was seen by Captain Philipps, his nephew, in one 
of the parks of General Pye Douglas, of Rose-hill, Lanarkshire, 
where his milch cows were. The cows were observed to chase, at¬ 
tack, gore, and toss the dog. The dog also must have bitten them, 
as four shewed blood proceeding from bites about their noses. 
Capt. P. interfered to save the dog, and the animal shewed its gra¬ 
titude for his protection, by fondling him and licking his hands. 
He led it afterwards to the stable, where it was seen and handled 
by several people; but it seemed ill, and died a day or two after¬ 
wards, as was thought from the bruises got from the cows. 
A fortnight afterwards one of the cows was taken ill. The ani¬ 
mal, from the description which I got, must have suffered from severe 
spasmodic attacks, for at times it seemed in great agony—its eyes 
