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transmission through spermatozoa. These gentlemen took 
three males of different mothers, which they immunized 
against rabies ; the females supplied to these were suscepti¬ 
ble of rabies, but in the most intense degree were immune to 
tetanus. The result of these trials is concisely given in the 
following: 
First. The father may impart per the semen an acquired 
freedom from rabies. 
Second. The same is not influenced by the mother, as the 
rule holds good when the father has access to several females. 
Third. The inheritance is given to all children to the same 
extent. 
Fourth. The immunity is less comprehensive in the chil¬ 
dren than in the father. 
Fifth. The protection, when acquired by the semen, is 
permanent, which fact is in opposition to that produced by 
the blood or milk from the female .—Centralblcitt f. Bad. u. - 
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THEORY AND PRACTICE IN MEAT INSPECTION. 
It is evident at the present day that meat poisoning is 
almost exclusively caused by the consumption of the flesh of 
such animals as have suffered from septic or pyasmic pro¬ 
cesses. Doubt as to whether the meat inspection remains 
applicable to all such cases has led the author to relate the 
following : 
First case, a cow, systemically febrile, and showing symp¬ 
toms of such indisposition, exhibited enlargement and disease 
of a quadrant of the udder accompanied by the usual pain, 
heat and hyperaemia. Diagnosed mastitis septica. 
The microscopic character of the disease discharges could 
not be disputed. The swelling included the anterior quarter 
of the udder upon the affected side. General condition con¬ 
tinued to decline, so slaughter was advised. Upon the meat 
there was nothing indicative of the intra vitam affection, and 
the same was passed by the inspector as conditionally healthy. 
Examination of the mammae showed it to be four times its 
