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ON KABIES. 
them ; but circumstances have transpired which enable us to form 
a tolerably shrewd guess at it: for Mr. Sewell is busily em¬ 
ployed in preparing such a course of lectures ; and Mr. Spooner— 
now conducting the anatomical demonstrations at the College, so 
far as regards the horse—-will, ere this month^s periodical can 
have reached our readers, have commenced another and distinct 
course of lectures on the anatomy and physiology of the other 
domesticated animals. 
Ere the close of the present year, we trust that our Veterinary 
School will have assumed that character which its founders in¬ 
tended that it should, from the beginning, have worn, and that 
the union between veterinary and agricultural science will be 
complete.—Y. 
RABIES. 
THE EVIDENCE OF MESSRS. WHITE, SEWELL, AND YOUATT, GIVEN BEFORE 
A COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, ON MARCH 26 , 1838 . 
[This evidence will probably be read with some degree of interest. 
Each witness had a right to his own opinion : but it is rather 
singular, to use no stronger word, that, at this time of day, 
these opinions should be so discordant.] 
Anthony White, Esq. Member of the Court of Ewaminers of the Royal 
College of Surgeons, and Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, called in; 
and examined. 
Mr. C. Lushington. —How long have you been in the profession of a sur¬ 
geon ?—^Thirty years. 
You consequently have had great experience in the various violent dis¬ 
eases by which the human frame is liable to be afflicted, and I have no 
doubt been frequently present when they have terminated fatally ?—Cer¬ 
tainly. 
Have you ever been present at deaths occasioned by hydrophobia ?—I 
should think from about twelve to fifteen times throughout my life. 
Are not the sensations of bodily suffering and mental alarm and anxiety 
in such cases of the most distressing and frightful character, and frequently 
very much protracted?—From long experience and observation, I should 
say there is no disease whatever to which human nature is liable in which 
such great bodily suffering, distress of mind, alarm, anxiety, and desire to 
get out of existence, prevail, as throughout that disease. 
You have already said you have been present at deaths from that and 
other causes; what is your opinion of the comparative degree of suffering 
in individuals dying from other causes, and from hydrophobia ?—In acute 
diseases, the bodily suffering is very great indeed—acute diseases which 
may terminate life in a few hours, arising from violent inflammations 
or serious bodily injuries; in such cases, the suffering is great, but it 
does not bring witli it that extreme mental suffering which attends hy¬ 
drophobia. 
