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SYMPTOMS FOLLOWING THE BITE 
At the Veterinary College not a syllable is ever mentioned 
about the training stable, nor a sentence ever uttered about the 
treatment of hunters or hacknies, either in health or disease, or 
stud practice; although, I take it, they do possess peculiarities 
that might be descanted on with advantage; but the student 
leaves St. Pancras just as ignorant, as to pedigree or performance 
of horses or the pulse of the foal, as the professors themselves. 
It is the want of such horse knowledge that makes the veteri¬ 
nary surgeon appear more ignorant than perhaps he really is, and 
we all know there is no need for that. I mean to say, that every 
class of horses has its peculiarities, the cavalry horse, the coach 
horse, as well as the cart horse. And, although so often required 
as is the knowledge of jurisprudence, who ever heard it named in 
the College lectures ? let alone the recklessness displayed on 
the diseases of cattle. Yet Mr. Coleman’s annual advertisement 
would make one believe that these are fully understood and 
taught. 
In a great commercial and agricultural country like this, where 
the interests of the veterinary profession may be truly said to be 
allied to its welfare, it is extraordinary that such a monopoly of 
abuses should so long have been suffered to retard the progress of 
an art so important; and, I trust, the great measure of national 
reform will lead us to a speedy revolution at St. Pancras. 
W. J. G. 
CASE OF PECULIAR SYMPTOMS FOLLOWING THE 
BITE OF A DOG SUPPOSED TO BE RABID. 
By John Conolly, M.D ., late Professor of Medicine in the 
University of London. 
In the month of August, 1825, a man, about thirty years of 
age, living as a farm servant with Mr. Page, of Billesley Hall, in 
Warwickshire, was bitten by a dog belonging to his master. The 
dog had been bitten by another dog (of which the owner, the 
history, and the end, were equally unknown), and had subse¬ 
quently become so mischievous, as to make it necessary to pen 
him up. The man had been used to the dog, and could not be 
persuaded to keep away from it. Whilst obstinately persisting 
to rub goose-grease on the throat of the animal, he received a 
bite on the back of the first phalanx of the middle finger of the 
left hand. 
A few days after this accident, the dog died, after being in a 
state of fury and distress, snapping at all who approached him, 
and continually walking about the place where he was confined. 
