ACCOUNT OF A RABID HORSE. 
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He died on the fifth day, in the morning, in violent convul¬ 
sions. 
On examining him after death, the whole muscular system 
was discoloured and softened, with numerous black spots of 
ecchymosis in the cellular texture. 
The substance of the heart had undergone the same alterations. 
It was discoloured, softened, and covered with large ecchymoses. 
The membrane lining the cavities of the heart was of an orange 
colour, and the bag of the pericardium contained two pounds of 
bloody serum. 
The sub-cutaneous laminated tissue, especially about the 
serosity, resem- 
muscles and the 
great dorsal. 
The salivary glands, and particularly the parotids, were ex¬ 
ceedingly red, infiltrated with yellow serosity, as also were the 
surrounding parts. 
The mucous membrane of the nasal cavities, especially that 
which covered the septum, and the turbinated bones, and the 
guttural pouches, were thickened and surcharged with yellow 
serum. The membranes of the larynx, the trachea, and the 
bronchial tubes were of a violet colour and engorged with 
blood, and these tubes were filled with mingled spume and 
mucus. 
The spinal cord was softened from the fifth cervical -vertebra 
to the first dorsal; and at the lumbar portion this softening of 
the substance of the cord was particularly evident. The medul¬ 
lary substance resembled thin caseous matter. 
The cineritious portion of the brain and spinal marrow was 
redder than usual, and the medullary substance was studded 
with minute spots of blood. The plexus choroides were en¬ 
gorged, red, and presented little calculous concretions. The 
membrane of the spinal cord contained in its duplicature a vellow 
serum, as did the nervous filaments, until they perforated the 
dura mater. 
Journal Pratique . 
larynx, was filled with coagulated albuminous 
bling jelly. It was the same in the interspinal 
On the Medical Properties of Digitalis. 
By M. Dupijy. 
M. Auguste Leroyer, apothecary in Geneva, has been ena¬ 
bled to separate the active principle of digitalis, with which he 
has made some experiments on animals. 
Magendie made known the results of the researches of this 
chemist, so that they might be repeated, and it might be ascer¬ 
tained, whether it is possible to extract from this plant a sub- 
