ON CAUTERIZATION BY TIIE GALVANIC PILE. 
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a sporting production, are too well and widely known to need any 
further commendation from us. We felt ourselves instructed as 
well as amused by the original letters, as they appeared from 
month to month in the Sporting Magazine ; and we are ready to 
acknowledge we have experienced a repetition of both these feel¬ 
ings in their re-perusal. We conclude by voting a place for Nim¬ 
rod’s “ Letters” in every veterinary surgeon’s, as well as every 
sportsman’s library. 
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On Cauterization by the Galvanic Pile, as a 
Preservative against Rabies. 
By M. Phavaz. 
M. Pravaz has conceived the idea of cauterizing, by the ac¬ 
tion of the galvanic pile, the wounds into which the rabid virus, 
or any poison, has been introduced. He instituted some experi¬ 
ments at the school at Alfort, on some dogs that had been bitten 
by rabid dogs, which require to be repeated, but which seem to 
be well worthy of consideration. We will select the following:— 
First. A *dog was bitten in the chest by a rabid dog ; the surface 
of the wound was about two inches square. Fifty-j'our hours af- 
tenuards, and when it was almost dried up, it was submitted for 
half an hour to the action of a galvanic pile of small dimensions. 
At first the animal appeared to feel great pain, but that soon 
wore off; a few drops of blood escaped ; a slough of the thick¬ 
ness of half a line was formed ; this fell off on the eleventh day, 
and the animal was preserved from the disease. 
Second. Both the thighs of another dog were inoculated with 
the saliva of the same rabid dog. Fifty four hours afterwards 
the wounds were cauterized by the action of the galvanic fluid, 
sloughs were formed, which fell off on the eighth day ; the wounds 
were healed on the twelfth day, and this animal also escaped. 
Third. A dog was inoculated in the same manner as the pre¬ 
ceding one, and with the virus of the same rabid dog, and left to 
himself: at the end of six days he died mad. The conclusions 
and the necessary results we shall not give to our readers until 
the experiments have been more numerous. It will be the duty 
of those who have opportunity to multiply these experiments, and 
to decide whether this species of cauterization may not be substi¬ 
tuted for the ordinary method. 
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