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HORSES BliTEN BY A RABID DOG. 
KEMAllKS ON THE EOEEGOING CASE BY PllOEESSOR 
VAllNELL. 
The foregoing case may appear to some persons not to 
possess much that is worthy of notice. 1 am inclined^ however, 
to think otherwise. To my mind it is, as Mr. Anderton ob¬ 
serves, illustrative of what important tissues and organs 
may be injured and yet recover. It also shows, in a very 
marked degree, the advantages of the common sense mode 
of treatment adopted in this case, with a view to induce the 
healing process over that usually resorted to by the ignorant 
pretender. 
In this instance we had no cramming the wound with 
Lundies of tow; no stinldng oils or greasy nngneuts used to 
dress the wound with; but such simple means as are best 
suited to assist nature in repairing the breach made in the 
abdominal parietes. Had a less favorable course been 
adopted, or the wound left to itself altogether, the chances are 
that the horse would have died from peritonitis; and if this 
had been the case, an elaborate account might have been 
given of a long list of symptoms presented over which science 
liad no control, confirmed by an equally long one of the post 
appearances, and I might add, in reference also to the 
symptoms over which nature never had a chance, in conse¬ 
quence of her own curative laws being frustrated by ignorant 
interference. This, as we have already stated, was not the 
case in this instance. The wound received a simple, but 
yet consistent, and as shown by the secpiel, efficient treat¬ 
ment, thus reducing that which, to the common observer, 
might have been considered a very formidable wound, into a 
very simple affair indeed. 
TROOP HORSES BITTEN BY A RABID DOG. 
By Argus.” 
On Sunday, the 14th June last, it was reported to me 
that two troop horses had been attacked and bitten by a mad 
dog. I at once went to the stables, and saw the horses. 
One had been bitten in two places, inside and outside the arm 
of the off fore leg. The other in one place only, on the out¬ 
side of the near knee. 
