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Facts and Observations. 
INFLAMMATION. 
An antiquated doctrine, insufficient, narrow, feeble, and 
ill-conceived ; and its companion, venesection, a lamentable 
method, a sanguinary consequence of incapacity of observa¬ 
tion .—-Gazette Medicate . 
NUMBER OF HORSES IN THE WORLD. 
Denmark has 45 horses to every hundred inhabitants, 
which is more than any other European country. Great 
Britain and Ireland have 2,500,000 horses; France, 3,000,000; 
Austrian empire, exclusive of Italy, 2,600,000; Russia, 
3,500,000. The United States have 5,000,000 horses, which 
is more than any European country. The horses of the 
whole world are estimated at 57,420,000. The swiftest horse 
ever known was Flying Childers ; he performed 4 miles 380 
yards in seven minutes and a half, which is at the rate of 
more than 33 miles per hour. 
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SPONTANEOUS HYDROPHOBIA. 
In the Gazette Hebclomadaire of last month is published a 
case, by M. Putegnat, of a boy, nine and a half years old, 
who was bitten by a dog that was driven from a house 
whither he had followed a bitch. The wounds healed in 
about ten days, but forty-eight days after the accident the 
boy was seized with all the symptoms of hydrophobia, and 
died in less than twenty-four hours. The dog presented no 
symptoms of the malady, but was, when he bit the unfor¬ 
tunate boy, in a fit of anger, increased by the venereal appe¬ 
tite. The case proves that anger, accompanied with the 
reproductive endeavours, may engender the rabid virus. 
