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ON RABIES. 
These facts are of somewhat ancient date, and we dare not 
to answer for the exact truth of them ; but it will always be pru¬ 
dent to avoid the flesh of oxen, sheep, or swine, that have been 
destroyed under the supposition of their being rabid, or who have 
died rabid. In case of the death of one of these animals, the 
carcass—skin, flesh and all—should, according to circumstances, 
be buried from three to ten feet deep, and the ground should be 
well beaten down, and planted with thorns. 
E. Disinfection. —For this purpose it will be sufficient to wash 
with boiling water the place in which rabid animals have been 
kept, having carefully scraped away the saliva from every place 
that could possibly be soiled with it. 
Measures to be taken with regard to Animals bitten by 
Rabid Dogs. 
A. Earliest measures. —As soon as an animal has been attacked 
by a rabid dog, or one supposed to be so, the first duty will 
be to examine every part of him most carefully, and then to wash 
him, and to cut the hair from every suspicious place. The slight¬ 
est excoriations or scratches will be as dangerous as a decided 
wound ; therefore they ought to be well pressed, in order to force 
the blood from them, and then washed with warm water or with 
urine, and afterwards cauterized with the red hot iron. All 
deeper wounds should be sounded and dilated if necessary, their 
edges pared, the torn fragments cut away, and then thoroughly 
washed, and finally cauterized with the red hot iron, the caustic 
potash, or the butyr of antimony. 
B. Destruction of the dogs. —Every dog that has been bitten 
by a rabid one, should be destroyed on the spot. The civil authori¬ 
ties have full power to carry this into execution. When they reflect 
on the frightful and irremediable accidents which may occur from 
suffering a dog to live that has been bitten, and that wnll be 
sooner or later mad, the authorities ought to be inexorable, what¬ 
ever may be the rank and condition of the owner, or whatever 
his attachment to the dog. 
C. Confinement. —If the dog has been only turned over, and 
no wound can be found, or if the wounds have been treated in 
the way just described, the authorities may be justified in con¬ 
tenting themselves with the confinement of the dog, accompanied 
and followed by certain precautions indispensable for the public 
safety. 
Bader and Capello have endeavoured to prove, by cases that 
have come before them in the usual way, and by experiments, 
that the saliva of dogs labouring under communicated rabies 
contains no rabid virus, and that a dog bitten by another that 
