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which we can express regret, it is on observing none of those 
who have graduated as members of the veterinary profession 
as its officers. It is true that the time was when the mother 
country had none, and then the Royal Veterinary College of 
London was established. It is equally true, that its first 
teachers were selected from the sister profession; but as now 
this institution has existed for many years, and its graduates 
are scattered over the known civilised world, it might have 
been hoped that from among them would have been chosen 
those w ho would have constituted the ee Faculty” of the 
Veterinary College of Philadelphia. Nevertheless, as we 
have before said, the college has our sincere and hearty 
wishes for its success. 
HYDROPHOBIA CAUSED BY THE BITE OE A CAT, AT 
DOWLAIS, SOUTH WALES. 
We are indebted to Mr. R. Bowles, M.R.C.V.S., Aber¬ 
gavenny, for the following account of this sad case, ex¬ 
tracted by him from one of the provincial journals : 
The inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Dowlais have 
been thrown into a state of great excitement, caused by the 
death of a man, who for several weeks was supposed to be 
suffering from hydrophobia, caused by a bite v T hich he had 
received from a cat some weeks previously. Four other 
persons were also bitten by the animal, and to w hom the 
prevailing excitement has naturally been a source of great 
fear. The circumstances are as follow': The deceased, 
Timothy Davies, aged 63, was a w'atchman, at the Dowlais 
New' YYorks. On the 3d of December, he was in the lodge 
of that place, and while there, ahalf-grow r n strange cat came 
in and lay in the coal-hole. Soon after he went to pick a few 
bits of coal, and w hile so doing the cat flew T at him, scratched, 
and bit him on the hand. He immediately put it out of the 
place, and drove it away. It appears that the cat then w r ent 
to the backyard of a house in the neighbourhood, and made 
an attack upon some ducks. It seized one by the head, and 
scratched out one of its eyes. A Mrs. Margaret Evans, 
hearing the noise, went to see the cause, and finding the 
duck thus attacked, caught hold of the cat for the purpose of 
parting them. It now' made an attack upon her, and bit her 
upon the hand. She took it into the house with the inten¬ 
tion of hanging it, but was prevailed by the inmates to let it 
