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ing, but with greater effect in the latter case. Wherever opium 
is given, there cannot be any great objection in administering ape¬ 
rient medicine at the same time, and, thereby getting rid, as Mr. 
Youatt observed, of both enemies (if they exist) at once. 
In respect of applying counter-irritation, I have to say, that I 
object, with others, to the free use of the spt. tereb. and ammo¬ 
nia : they only irritate, and destroy the hair, and produce, as the 
President observed, a permanent blemish. I have seen it re¬ 
peatedly. I doubt whether the use of mustard is beneficial. It 
is a tremendous irritant to the skin, and, like the turpentine, pro¬ 
duces too great a disturbance in the system : it is not sufficiently 
local in its action, and, perhaps, does more harm than good. 
Wherever the application of the cantharides can be made in 
conjunction with a little of the turpentine or mustard in a liquid 
state, I think it better practice. The ung. lyttce is too often rub¬ 
bed off in their struggles. No external application, in these cases, 
I think more likely to produce good effect than the firing of the 
belly with the hot iron. The insertion of rowels or setons I 
have often found serviceable; for it is too often the case that 
blistering takes but little effect in the early stage of the disease, 
and that the setons or rowels are often observed to rise and dis¬ 
charge quite as soon as the blister. But are blisters, setons, or 
rowels of much use, except they rise in the acute stage? 
Where the cases are of a more chronic character, they would. 
The great, the all-important measure must be, early and deci¬ 
sive bleeding, and the administration of 3 doses of opium, aided 
by warm clothing and bandages, the animal being kept in a 
tolerably warm airj" place. If the first six hours are lost, as is too 
often the case, it is a serious affair, and uncertain in its result. 
I have never seen more than two successful cases in which the 
disease has continued, without any abatement of the symptoms, 
to the twenty-fourth or thirtieth hour and then recovered. Most 
that have died have done so within twelve or fourteen hours. 
A CASE OF RABIES IN A CAT. 
By Mr. J. A. Ainslie, London. 
The following brief case may, perhaps, be permitted to occupy 
a corner as connected with your valuable lectures on the symp¬ 
toms and post-mortom appearances of rabies. I trust that you 
will soon regain sufficient health and strength to enable you to 
continue and complete the subject. 
