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and the body covered with sweat in places. The wound was 
very offensive, and some portions of cellular tissue were 
sloughing away, though granulations of a healthy nature 
were found at the bottom of the wound. A diet of milk and 
eggs was ordered and drank by the patient, but very little 
escaping through the wound. On the sixth day the tempera¬ 
ture was io6°, pulse 120, respiration 54. The extremities were 
cold and there was profuse sweating, with a waterv, offensive 
discharge from the bowels, and shortly the animal laid down 
and died, without a struggle. 
At the post mortem the lungs and heart were found in a 
healthy condition. The stomach contained a small quantity of 
fluid and a few grains of undigested oats, and the intestines a 
small quantity of watery matter. On removing the oesopha¬ 
gus, only one of the stitches was found to have held. The 
edges of both the muscular and mucous coats were gangre¬ 
nous, and a number of small abscesses were found around the 
seat of the operation, extending into the thoracic cavity. 
Tne mucous membrane of the oesophagus, a short distance 
from the diaphragm, was ulcerated in several places, at the 
place where the foreign body had been stopped and pushed 
off by the probang. 
SURGICAL PATHOLOGY. 
NOTES ON THE PRESENCE OF THE RABID VIRUS IN NERVES. 
By E. Roux. 
The author, continuing his experiments on the effects of 
the inoculation of the various nerves of animals that have 
died from rabies, without giving final conclusions, records the 
following facts: Two rabbits, inoculated with the produce 
of the crushing in water of nerves of the right and left axilla 
of a subject bitten on the left thumb, died, one, the thirty-fifth, 
the other on the thirty-sixth day after inoculation. A third 
rabbit, inoculated with the bulb, died in fifteen days; a fourth 
rabbit, inoculated with the left radial nerve, was well ten 
months after the inoculation, These experiments seem to 
prove that the propagation of the rabid virus took place from 
