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flanks over a space about eight inches wide. On the twelfth 
day he discharged with the urine a thick, creamy pus, very 
foetid. At times the urine would be clear, and at others puru¬ 
lent. At first he lost but little flesh, and seemed to suffer but 
little from colicky pains, which were- always relieved by chloral. 
He lived twenty-nine days from the time of the injury. 
Autopsy .—There was gangrene of the rectum at the seat 
of the injury, and sloughing from healthy tissues. The open¬ 
ing in the rectum was about 3J- inches in diameter. There 
was an abscess in the pelvic cavity, also one on the pelvis of 
the right kidney, and one in the inguinal swelling of the right 
side. All the organs otherwise were healthy. 
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PASTEUR’S TREATMENT OF HYDROPHOBIA. 
An abstract of the Report of the British Committee of Inquiry. 
The following abstract is given in the Lancet for July 2: 
“ The report of the committee nominated by the President of 
the Local Government Board in April, 1886, to inquire into M. 
Pasteur’s treatment of hydrophobia, was presented to Parliament 
on Monday last. 
“ The report commences by stating that it was found necessary 
that some of the members of the committee should, together with 
Mr. Victor Horsley, the Secretary, visit Paris so as to obtain in¬ 
formation from M. Pasteur himself, to observe his method of 
treatment, and investigate a considerable number of cases of per¬ 
sons inoculated by him; and, further, that a careful series of ex¬ 
periments should be made by Mr. Horsley on the effects of such 
inoculation on the lower animals. Mr. Horsley's experiments are 
stated to entirely confirm M. Pasteur’s discovery of a method by 
which animals may be protected from the infection of rabies. If 
a dog, rabbit, or other animal be bitten by a rabid dog and die of 
rabies, a substance can be obtained from its spinal cord which, 
being inoculated into a healthy dog or other animal, will produce 
rabies similar to that which would have followed directly from 
