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A CASE OF RABIES. 
By Mr, W. C. Spooner, Southampton. 
March 30, 1838.—I was requested to examine a very valuable 
dog that had been bitten by another supposed to be rabid two 
days previously. The only bite that could be discovered on a 
minute examination was one on the ear, to which the lunar 
caustic was very freely applied. As the dog was so valuable, 
and so great a favourite, the owner did not wish to have him 
destroyed, and yet was, of course, unwilling to run any risk. 
Under these circumstances I advised him to have the animal 
confined for six months. My advice was taken, the dog was 
confined, every attention paid him, and the wound in the ear 
cauterized a second time. The dog continued well until August 
27th, when he appeared indisposed : in a short time the symptoms 
of rabies were developed, and in the course of six days he died 
decidedly mad. 
[This occasional long period of incubation is one of the most 
fearful circumstances connected with rabies. Mr. Spooner, in 
a private letter to the Editor, assures us that the dog was 
securely confined during his quarantine, and that he was just 
about to^be liberated when the disease became manifested. 
Three days more than twenty-one weeks here elapsed. We 
had one case in which rather more than seven months passed 
away before the symptoms of rabies began to exhibit them¬ 
selves. These are rare cases; but they have occurred, and 
may do so again. Neither the practitioner nor his employer 
have always given this the serious consideration which it de¬ 
serves.—Y.] 
ON THE ACCUMULATION OF DIGITALIS IN THE 
SYSTEM. 
By Mr. W. J. T. Morton, Royal Veterinary Collegej London. 
Di GITA LIS or foxglove is an agent now pretty generally em¬ 
ployed by veterinarians, and that with considerable advantage, 
in cases of pleuritis, pneumonitis, carditis, and other active in¬ 
flammations, after the lancet has been resorted to, and as much 
blood detracted from the mass as the patient’s strength and 
other circumstances will permit. It has also been found useful 
in chronic coughs, thick wind, &c., when by its sedative influ- 
