CANINE MADNESS CUllABLE. 
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\Yas even more direct than in reference to epilepsy, thanks 
to the studies of Dr. Pavy and Dr. McDonald. Vivisection, 
the professor said, produced a certain amount of pain, but lie 
asked, was this pain, voluntarily and of deliberate purpose 
inflicted in a few laboratories, greater in amount and duration 
than the mental pain, moral distress, and bodily agon}^ 
endured in many a palace and many a cottage by the victims 
of these very two diseases, which of late years vivisection had 
most assisted medicine to combat. 
In contradistinction to the above, we find by the public 
prints that a strong effort is being made in Paris to abolish 
vivisection. M. Dubois, Secretary of the Academy, has 
delivered a most eloquent speech against this barbarous prac¬ 
tice. He described the horrors which he witnessed during 
one of these ‘‘experiments^^ in such vivid terms that some 
members of the Academy who had sanc^tioned them left the 
room. M. Dubois said that he found a number of horses 
being operated on, and it was so arranged that no less than 
sixty-four distinct operations could be performed, extending 
over ten hours, before the unhappy animal's sufferings were 
terminated by death. 
CANINE MADNESS CURABLE. 
The generally received opinion that this disorder is con¬ 
stantly fatal seems about to be seriously questioned. The 
Aheille Medicale publishes a letter from M. E. Decroix, a vete¬ 
rinary surgeon, in which he arrives at the following conclu¬ 
sions:— 1. That a subject labouring under canine madness may 
die without any fit of frenzy. 2. That a subject in ^Yhom the 
disorder is characterised by such fits, their frequency is in 
the direct ratio of exterior provocation. 3. That a dog may, 
in a violent fit of anger, communicate the disease by a bite, 
and yet continue to enjoy perfect health; and, 4. That there 
are examples which show that communicated rabies is capable 
of cure, either spontaneously or by means of a proper treat¬ 
ment. The first two points were the subject of an article 
we gave a short time since; the third is rendered probable 
by an observation published by M. Putegnat; as to the 
fourth, the cases quoted by our author are certainly con¬ 
clusive. In the first, a dog inoculated with the saliva of a 
man attacked with the disease, a fortnight after displayed all 
the symptoms of quiet madness, which however gradually 
diminished in intensity, and at length disappeared entirely in 
