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weeks after was sold to do a much harder farming work. 
The repeated and protracted action of the liniment left no 
blemish, and after a few weeks there remained no mark of the 
severe treatment to which she had been subjected.— Ibid. 
RABIES IN A SOW—SPONTANEOUS RECOVERY—EXPERIMENTAL 
CONFIRMATION. 
By M. F. Pettoh. 
This animal was attacked by the peculiar symptoms which 
characterized her case, while on her way to market to be 
sold. Rushing suddenly and violently through the field, she 
threw down a man who had attempted to stop her, also biting 
him in the hand, and then stopping, endeavoring to conceal 
herself in a dark spot, threatening to bite whoever approached 
her. She was finally secured with a lasso and carried home. 
There she laid quietly down, and became apparently entirely 
indifferent to everything transpiring around her. When 
urged to move, it was with a staggering gait, the hind quar¬ 
ters being evidently weak ; respiration was difficult; appetite 
failed ; she had no fear of water, and was not excited by the 
presence of a dog. The next day her weakness became more 
marked, and she would sometimes assume the dog-sitting 
posture, at times opening her mouth as if desiring to bite, and 
grunting more or less when disturbed or punished ; was more 
excited by the noise of clapping the hands together or of 
stamping the feet on the floor, then showing conclusive move¬ 
ments of the jaws. After twenty-four hours she attempted to 
get on her feet, but failed. Her appetite then began to return 
and she took some sloppy food, but seemed to be unable to swal¬ 
low. From this point the symptoms improved, and about a 
week later she was pronounced cured. 
The author asks, was she suffering with rabies? Believ¬ 
ing this to be so, from the history of the symptoms, and con¬ 
sidering the clinical value of the case, Mr. Peuch inoculated 
her, together with six other animals, two dogs, two rabbits 
and two guinea pigs, with an emulsion of pure rabid bulb. 
The sow resisted, with three of the other animals, and the 
three others died of rabies. Another experiment was made 
