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withstanding this, however, statements of the opposite opinion havt 
been made public, in a number of instances, as of couise then 
will always be many minds among many men. We, who hart 
seen it both in France and America, and some of our friends wh. 
have observed it in Germany and in the United States also, ar 
in no doubt respecting their similarity, and are so strong in on 
consideration, that we cannot see any other way to lecommen 
in the prophylaxy of this scourge of swine, than inoculation. 
With this object in view, we would urgently recommend t 
those who may have facilities for working in that direction, t 
endeavor to find a true vaccine, which, if not Pasteur’s, may a 
least satisfy us with the same results. 
Rabies. —Of this disease, we have little to say that has nc 
already appeared in print, in most of the medical and vetcrinar 
journals. In the results already secured by M. Pasteur, the ne 
method has shown undeniable evidences of its superiority. Oi 
of 385 persons bitten by mad dogs up to the first of March, wl 
were subjected to the treatment, one only had died with liydr 
phobia. It was a case in which the patient had received nume 
ous and deep wounds, only thirty-seven days previous to the fir 
inoculation. Over 200 of the patient's had been bitten more tin 
two months previously, or beyond the ordinary limit of the incnb 
tion of the disease. If then, it is shown by the most attainable sfe 
istics, that the average death rate in man is one in six of tho 
bitten, we become able to appreciate the number of persons sav. 
from one of the most horrible deaths that can be imagine 
As Pasteur, says, “ The prophylaxy of rabies is found.”* . Grl 
as the result is, it probably does not interest the veterinary 
as a veterinarian, as much as the other appreciation of which 
is susceptible in our practice. The manipulations and the vane 
methods of proceedings followed by M. Pasteur, while seeki 
for the virus, have brought to the attention of the practitioners 
important fact, by disclosing the simple means which are now at : 
disposal of determining, in the case of an animal which had 1« 
killed after he has bitten other animals or persons, whether he v 
* Since this was written, intelligence has Been received that two other pere 
have died from the disease, though submitted to the treatment. These were 
counted in tlie number up to the 1st of Mhrcii. 
