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passed over in the course of a few hours, and the disease pursued 
its fatal course. It was also, about the same time, given to the 
human beino; without effect. 
And now, gentlemen, I have told you nearly all that I know 
respecting rabies. I have seen some palpable cases of sponta¬ 
neous recovery. I have seemingly gone a great way towards 
effecting a cure, but I never fully accomplished my purpose. I 
hope that I may have contributed to prevent the appearance of 
the disease in a great many patients; but I have never cured one. 
Others have, or say that they have. Spalding has cured nearly 
eight hundred with the Scutellaria—Brera has succeeded with 
the Belladonna—and Blaise with mercurial inunction. I dare 
not say, I do not believe, that they are designedly imposing on 
the public by fabricated or false accounts; but such has not been 
my good fortune, although I believe that I have experimented 
on more animals than any other practitioner in any part of the 
world. I have seen again and again decided good impression 
made upon the disease, but the cure has not been worked out. 
The subject should not be dropped. The nature of the disease 
is fully known—the kind of medicines to be employed are suffi¬ 
ciently indicated—and I have no manner of doubt that the suc¬ 
cessful treatment of rabies will ere long be discovered. This 
will, indeed, be one of the noblest triumphs of medicine. It is 
one that seems especially allotted to the veterinary surgeon. He 
sees the disease in all its various forms in the animal that is most 
frequently the subject of it. His daily practice teaches him the 
way of coercing and managing this animal, a struggle with whom 
might be fatal to others. I need not tell you how w'ell he would 
deserve of his country, by whom the successful treatment of 
rabies is discovered, and with what blessings his name would be 
hailed. Let this be your path—cautiously but confidently trod¬ 
den. It will conduct you to the deserved estimation and grati¬ 
tude of your brethren and the public. 
CASES OF PRESSURE ON THE MEDULLA SPINALIS, 
FROM EXCESSIVE HEAT OF THE SUN. 
By Mr. John Tombs, Pershore. 
July 7thy 1837.—I was desired to visit two entire cart colts, 
belonging to a highly respectable agriculturist in this neighbour¬ 
hood. When I first saw them, they were grazing in a meadow 
contiguous to a large wood. They were exposed to a grilling 
sun; it was a perfect calm, and the ground was like a hot-bed. 
When I approached them, they began rolling, swerving, and 
