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the fact that it resists remedial agents; its mortality; and the 
ease with which it is transported from herd to herd. 
There is no doubt but that the sanitary authorities of Illinois 
will do all that is possible under their laws to prevent an exten¬ 
sion of this plague from its present locality. But it seems to me 
impossible for them to hold in quarantine the two hundred mares 
and nine stallions affected with this disease for a term of three 
years ; and it must be remembered that these animals are owned 
by about fifty different farmers, widely separated. 
It is not reasonable to suppose that these quarantined breed¬ 
ers will submit to the official supervision of their herds for such a 
long period; and in this country, with our present sanitary laws, 
it is folly to imagine that the Live Stock Commissioners of Illi¬ 
nois will be able to successfully maintain a three years’ quaran¬ 
tine. While maladie du coit is confined to the horses of De Witt 
County, Ill., it would be a profitable investment for the State to 
pay for and slaughter every infected animal. The expense would 
be trifling in comparison with the immense capital invested in 
breeding horses. 
Already the confidence in the horse traffic (breeding stock) is 
shaken, and the people of Illinois who by their foresight and 
energy have created a large trade in Normaii-Percheron stock, and 
have thus added to the material wealth of the country, must lose 
their business or remove to more favored and healthy locations. 
If Wyoming buyers of breeding stock (horses or mares) would 
preserve the prosperity and integrity of their herds, they must not 
make their purchases in a district where maladie du coit prevails. 
The Respiration in Paralytic Rabies. —An account of some 
careful observations on the respiratory rhythm of rabbits suffer¬ 
ing from artificially induced rabies is given by Dr Ferre in the 
Journal de Medecine de Bordeaux , No. 1 (Aug. 6th). The grap¬ 
hic tracings show very clearly the gradual change in type of the 
respiratory rhythm, which is normally composed of short rapid 
waves, as seen in the tracing; the respirations become slower and 
deeper, so that just before death they are six times less frequent 
than during health. Ferre proves that the first phenomenon of 
rabic infections is a distinct slowing of the respiration, 
