CORRESPONDENCE ON RABIES IN COWS. 
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“ In the Advertiser of the 10th instant it was stated, that Mr. 
Bonsall, of the Westside, near Alstonefield, had lost six cows, 
which had died in a rabid state, caused from the bite of a mad 
dog. Mr. Bonsall has requested us to contradict the assertion made 
with respect to the cause of death. The paragraph was sent to us 
by the veterinary surgeon who was called in.” 
To the Editor of the “ Derbyshire Advertiser 
“ Sir,—I will thank you to contradict the statement put forth in 
your last week’s paper—that Mr. Bonsall’s cows were not rabid. 
I attended three of the animals, and made a post-mortem examina¬ 
tion of one of them; these three were decidedly rabid, and I was 
informed the other three which he had lost were like them. 
“ Yours, &c , 
“ W. Cox, 
“ Member of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons, London.” 
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To the Editor of the “ Derbyshire Advertiser .” 
“ Sir,—I again wish you to contradict what was published in your 
paper of the 1st instant, respecting my cows being rabid. It is a 
fact that Mr. Cox attended three of the cows, and made a post¬ 
mortem examination of one of them, being the second which he 
had attended, and the fifth which I had lost; and he stated at the 
time of examination that the cows had died of inflammation of the 
brain and spine of the back, caused from being maw-bound. I 
sent for Mr. Cox to attend the sixth cow, and he then said he was 
very suspicious they had been bitten by a mad dog, and, if so, 
medicine was useless; and he said he had never seen a mad cow 
if they were not mad. A mad dog has never been seen or heard 
of in the neighbourhood. 
“ What was a sufficient proof to me and my neighbours, I had 
one cow most severely afflicted of the same disease, and after 
being treated according to the manner Mr. Hudson prescribed, she 
has recovered. I fetched Mr. Hudson to the same cow which Mr. 
Cox represented to be mad, and he saw her alive, and made a 
post-mortem examination on her, and, eight persons being present, 
they were all perfectly satisfied that the cow’s death was caused 
by inflammation on the small intestines; and I am certain they have 
all died of the same disease. 
