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the same as those given previously, and that every cow that 
was taken died. His brother, directly opposite, had also lost 
a number of cows; the same dogs were seen among his cows 
and had bitten them. Two of them had the ends of their 
tails bitten off ; they escaped the disease, having no other 
bites on them. These cows had all been visited by a veterin¬ 
ary surgeon, but not one yielded to treatment. The dog was 
a member of the shepherd family. His partner (the other 
dog) escaped, but was shot some time afterward, he acting in 
a peculiar manner. 
About a week after this, another man, from nearly the 
same neighborhood, only one mile from Cases No. 2, called 
me to see a cow I found her down with the same symp¬ 
toms, but much wilder. Her eyes were rolling, her head 
swinging, and bawling, frothing at the mouth. He had five 
others to die, and one of them became very violent, and was 
shot while in the act of breaking everything to pieces. The 
same dogs were seen among his cows. I came to the conclu¬ 
sion, after seeing Cases No. 2, that I was dealing with rabies, 
and after getting the history later, I am confirmed of the 
diagnosis of rabies, as these farmers are all reliable men, and 
I believe their cows were bitten by these dogs, as they state. 
And the same dogs, with the exception of Cases No. 1, vis¬ 
ited each herd that were affected. I at first thought of Texas 
fever, but the post-mortem changed my opinion immediately. 
About fifty cows in all were affected and died. 
Dr. Hoskins reported a case as follows: The subject of 
this somewhat unusual and unique case was a large Maltese 
cat, about two years old. Was injured on March 9th from 
flobert rifle, with bullet marks at both inner and external 
canthus of right eye. Was ordered to my infirmary on 10th, 
treated antiseptically in conjunction with anodynes locally 
until the 26th, when I considered extirpation of the entire 
eye the best treatment, which was carried into effect. On 
the 5th of April the cat was sent home with the entire healing 
process apparently completed. 
On June 8th my attention was again called to the cat, and 
found the orbital cavity partially filled with a catarrhal dis- 
