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per day, and that had calved on the 10th of April, was spayed 
on the 8th of May. She suffered from the operation^ and did 
not give more than two or three quarts per day; but she soon 
recovered, and when the wound was healed, yielded her usual 
quantity, and which she continues to do unto the present period. 
The other, aged ten years, and that had calved on the 15th of 
April, and gave, a month afterwards, nine quarts of milk per 
day, was spayed on the 15th of May. In four days after the 
operation she gave again her usual quantity of milk; this in¬ 
creased to ten quarts, and she yields that unto the present day. 
These cows shewed a disposition for, and went to the bull 
several times after the operation ; and, being incapable of con¬ 
ceiving, the oestrum returns on them periodically. The first has 
been with the bull four times, and the other twice. 
These five cows have continued to yield the same quantity of 
milk which they gave at the time at which they were spayed; 
and this, on a fair calculation of the usual gradual diminution of 
the secretion, is double the amount that would otherwise have 
been obtained in the whole period. We must not yet go farther 
than this, but if cows that have been spayed should continue to 
yield such an extra quantity of milk as long as they live, the 
operation will be valuable indeed. 
Reciteil, June 1835. 
HYDROPHOBIA; 
CAN IT BE COMMUNICATED BY A DOG NOT RABID ? 
[We extract from La iMncelte Fran^aise an account of a 
curious and interesting discussion at the Societe Mcdicale 
d’Emulation in Paris, June 17th, 1835.] 
M. Velpean communicated the following fact :—A young 
man, fourteen years of age, but whose good constitution made 
him appear, at least, eighteen years old, while playing with a 
large and savage dog, was bitten by him in the cheek. The 
wound, its edges contused and reversed, reached from the ex¬ 
ternal angle of the eye to the commissure of the lip on the same 
side, and there was considerable loss of blood. The edo-es of the 
wound were brought together by the suture entorlillte; cold 
lotions were applied to it, in order to abate the inflammation 
that followed ; and, on the 18th day, the lad was dismissed from 
the hos])ital, his cheek being nearly healed. 
