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the center to the periphery. Four other rabbits inoculated, 
two with the nerves of the left, and two with those of the 
right axilla of a subject bitten on the right hand, survived the 
inoculation. A rabbit inoculated with the cubital nerve from 
a subject bitten on the right hand, became rabid in fifty days. 
Another, inoculated with the right median nerve, became sick 
in nineteen days. Two rabbits, inoculated with the left medi¬ 
an and cubital nerves, survived more than ten months ; and 
another, inoculated with the bulb, became rabid in fourteen 
days. In a fourth case the results were analogous, except 
that the inoculation of a rabbit with the radial nerve of the 
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bitten side was ineffective. In this same experiment, a rabbit 
inoculated with the nervous mass of the axilla of the bitten 
side became rabid after three and half months; in this case 
the propagation seemed to have taken place along the cubital 
nerve from the periphery to the centre. 
Mr. Roux insists upon the period of ill feeling preceding 
the exhibition of confirmed rabies ; during this latent period 
treatment has no more effects, yet a woman already treated 
at the Pasteur Institute, having been taken with lancinating 
pains in the bitten parts, was submitted to another treatment, 
and has remained well for two years past .—Annales de Fas¬ 
ten?'. 
CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF SUPPURATION. 
By A. Gkawitz. 
Grawitz injected under the skin of dogs, with all aseptic 
precautions, spirit of turpentine, in order to produce the 
formation of abscesses. After two days the animals were de¬ 
stroyed, and the pus, as well as pieces of the tissues, were 
placed on plates of gelatine. Fifteen days later there were 
no indications of microbes. The scraping of the plates, 
mixed with distilled water and injected in dogs, gave rise to 
no swelling or inflammation. Suppuration produced by the 
injection of spirit of turpentine is consequently free from all 
micro-organisms. 
In a second series of experiments, Grawitz mixed with 
pus free from all germs, and taken from a dog, a given pro- 
