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mitted to other pigs, Irom the above Mr. Galtier concludes that 
the rabid virulency can be preserved for fifteen, twenty, twenty- 
five, thirty, thirty-five, forty and forty-five days, in buried 
cadavers, and perhaps longer, and that in doubtful cases inocula¬ 
tion of the bulb of animals buried for these periods of time is 
indicated.— Ibid. 
INTRODUCTION OF INFECTIOUS GERMS THROUGH INTACT SKIN. 
By Mr. Sohimmelbush. 
The intact skin has always been considered to be an imper¬ 
vious obstacle to the introduction of infectious germs. But Mr, 
Both, a pupil of Koch, has succeeded in developing a generalized 
infection in animals, by rubbing the skin with the bacilli of 
anthiax, and those of the septicemia of mice. Mr. Schimmel- 
bush has attempted similar experiments in human moribunds. 
During one or two minutes he had the skin rubbed with cultures 
of staphylococcus, and obtained the development of pustules of 
impetigo, the germs having penetrated through the hair follicles. 
Similar results were obtained upon stumps of amputation. In 
rubbing rabbits with cultures of pathogenic bacilli, he succeeded 
in obtaining a general infection on only four out of fourteen 
animals, while Mr. Both obtained the same result on four out of 
five animals.— Ibid . 
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HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT. 
A CASE OF “BREAK DOWN” IN A FORE AND HIND LEG. 
By Dr. W. Tritsohler, House Surgeon. 
The subject was a gray coach-horse, eight years old, which 
had been laid up about three weeks, for a u soreness 55 which is 
said to have been somewhat erratic in its manifestation and ob¬ 
scure in nature. 
When put to work for the first time on a short trip, and after 
being out but a very short while, he began to go lame on the off 
