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the course of thirteen days, without any remedy beinp; applied. 
The second case was much the same. In the third case, a 
man and his wife were bitten by an unknown dof^. A month 
later the man died of confirmed rabies at the hospital. Two 
days after his death his wife was taken ill, and received into 
the hospital, where the physician pronounced her disorder to 
be rabies; nevertheless, she got better, and eventually re¬ 
covered. The doctor then said he liad been misled by the 
symptoms, and that the disorder was not rabies. The ques¬ 
tion at once presents itself—What was it, then? Either 
rabies has definite symptoms which may be easily recognised, 
or there must be a disorder hitherto unknown, which has the 
same symptoms and yet is not rabies. Is it not more logical 
to confess at once that rabies is not always incurable? The 
fourth case is one reported in 1777 by the surgeon Beudon. 
A sow and a little dog were both bitten by a mad dog, which 
afterwards ran away, but returned two days after in a pitiable 
state. Beudon had put it into a cage, and for several days 
it displayed all the symptoms of rabies. Beudon then caused 
vinegar to boil in the cage, so as to expose the animal to the 
fumes. By degrees the patient got better, and at length 
recovered. Six days after the infliction of the bite the sow 
became raging mad, a state which lasted seven hours. Beu¬ 
don took advantage of a momentary respite to cause boiling 
vinegar to be let down into the sty. When this vinegar got 
cool the sow drank some, and got better; vinegar was then 
mixed with its food, and in the course of a few days the 
animal was medically cured. The little dog had no symptoms 
at all. It may now be asked whether these cures were spon¬ 
taneous or owing to the vinegar. At all events, these cases 
sliow that there is a possibility of recovery ; and'M. Decroix 
thinks that among all the nostrums proposed as specific for 
this terrible affection, there may happen to be one of real 
value, but rejected on account of the preconceived opinion of 
the incurability of the disease.— Galignani, 
THE IMPROVE^tENT OE AGRICULTURAL HORSES SUITED 
TO THE WEST OE ENGLAND. 
Bv Professor Brown, M.R.C.Y.S. 
[Conthmed from 635.) 
In the second place, the various breeds of agricultural 
horses, so far as they can be defined, will call for some notice, 
in order to decide what existing varieties are adapted for the 
