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KOSCOE BELL. 
New Yoek Pasteue Institute, 178 West 10th Steeet, Y. Y. City. 
Dr. Paul Gibier, Director of the N. Y. Pasteur Institute, begs to inform you 
of the results of the preventive inoculations against hydrophobia, performed at 
this Institute during the month of March, 1890. The Institute was opened on 
the 18th of February last. 
From the 20th of February to 31st of March about thirty persons came to be 
treated ; only nine were detained : the animals who bit the others being still 
alive, no farther infection was therefore to be feared. 
Nine persons have received the Pasteur treatment and are at present in good 
health. 
In these cases hydrophobia was experimentally shown to exist, (inoculation 
of the nervous substance of the dogs to other animals, who died with the ordi¬ 
nary symptoms of hydrophobia) and also by this fact that in one case, a horse 
and in another case, a hog, bitten by the same dogs, have since died from 
hydrophobia. 
In six other ca es rabies was very probable but the dogs disappeared and 
their bodies were thrown away without being sent to the Institute. 
The patients were 4 from New York City ; 3 Long Island ; 1 Maryland ; 1 
Arkansas, of whom five were treated gratuitously. 
Moreover, in order to be protected against the fatal danger of an accidental 
infection during the work, Dr. Paul Gibier has inoculated himself and three of 
his assistants. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
EXAMINATION OF HORSES FOR SOUNDNESS. 
By Rosooe Bell, D.V.S. 
A paper read before the Long Island Veterinary Society, April Meeting. 
I know of no branch of veterinary science in which there 
is more clashing- of professional opinion, nor one upon which 
careful study and observation will yield more satisfactory re¬ 
sults, than that very profitable department of our peculiar 
calling, known as “ Examinations for Soundness.” I am very 
sorry for you, gentlemen, that some of the more capable 
members should not have undertaken to lead the discussion 
upon this subject, for I can only give you a rough outline of 
the views of some of the many writers who have had occa¬ 
sion to discuss it, interspersed with only a limited amount ot 
original thought gained in the course of a short practice. I 
say I shall lead the discussion, for that is about all that is to 
