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driven twenty miles evinced symptoms of great pain by rolling 
and perspiring profusely. When made to get up he began retch¬ 
ing and presently the act of vomition was profound, in which 
partly masticated hay and oats were discharged through the nose. 
Thinking I had a case of rupture I did not give anything inter 
nally, but administered morphia, grs. iii. hypodermically. In half 
an hour the retching ceased, when I gave soda hyposulphite and 
an unfavorable prognosis. The next day I visited the animal, 
expecting to find it dead; but it was alive, though very dull. 
Stimulants were given and the second day the animal was put to 
work. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
MISSOURI RECOGNIZING THE VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
Dear Sir: 
Pardon me for not replying sooner to your favor of the 29th 
July. I have been extremely busy in my official capacity these 
two months, and hence my delay. 
I thank you sincerely for your advice regarding Pasteuriza¬ 
tion against hydrophobia, as practiced in JSew York. I am well 
aware that, to have success with it, the series of operations must 
be performed with the greatest care and with perfectly good and 
safe virus-vaccine. During my stay in Paris last year I carefully 
studied the treatment for several months at Mr. Pasteur’s labora¬ 
tory itself, where I had the privilege of attending once or twice a 
week the conferences given to a few at this institution by Dr. 
Perdrix, one of Mr. Pasteur’s chief assistants and late of Koch’s 
laboratory. The cases I telegraphed you about were doubtful. I 
was absent when a child belonging to Prof. Buckmaster, of this 
place, was bitten on the hand by a dog running at large through 
the country, and which had been seen to bite horses, cows, etc., 
on its passage. It was a young shepherd dog and did not have 
very dangerous teeth. I found out since that another dog with 
which the would-be rabid one had a fight came out without a 
scratch. When I arrived it was too late to inoculate anything 
