PROCEDURE AFTER THE BITE OF A MAD DOG. 
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more curious. In October, 1859; a young soldier of the 
army of Italy returned to France after a long stay in the 
military hospitals. He had been hit at Solferino by a 
musket-ball, which had fractured the upper maxillary bone 
on the left side. On the following day the surgeon had ex¬ 
tracted the projectile, a great many splinters of bone of 
various sizes, with three molars, and the portion of maxillary 
bones in which they were inserted. When this young man 
was examined by Dr. Demeaux, about one half of the roof 
of the palate was deprived of its bone, and the mucous pe¬ 
riosteal membrane was the only separation existing between 
the nose and the fauces, a circumstance which materially 
impeded the patient’s speech and power of deglutition. 
In the summer of I860, when Dr. Demeaux saw him again, 
the palate, as well as the other missing bone, were found to 
have been completely regenerated.— Galignani. 
THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF THE GALL BLADDER. 
At a meeting of the Zoological Society held on the 26th 
ult., Dr. Crisp read a paper “ On the Form, Capacity, Situa¬ 
tion, Presence or Absence, of the Gall-bladder, and the 
Colour of the Bile in the Vertebrata.” Sketches of the 
gall-bladders of 306 species of the vertebrata, and the bile of 
500 species of animals, were exhibited. The author men¬ 
tioned that in some animals that were said “not to have a 
gall-bladder,” this viscus was present; and that the supposed 
law that a gall-bladder existed in the hollow-horned rumi¬ 
nants and not in those with solid horns, was not to be 
depended upon, as was shown by numerous illustrations 
from the author’s dissections. 
PROCEDURE AFTER THE BITE OF A MAD DOG. 
As of late years deaths from hydrophobia have notably 
increased in France, the Prefet of the Seine, believing this to 
be due in part to a general ignorance as to the best mode of 
procedure after bites from a mad dog, has given full publicity 
to the recommendations made by the Council of Public 
Hv giene. According to these, the sole measure to be relied 
upon is the thorough and prompt application of a red hot 
iron to the bitten part, the pain from such application being 
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