EDITORIAL 
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t n returned to his stall without shoe or dressing. During 
e ht days he received forty grammes (about nine drachms) of 
] tier’s solution in his food. That was all the treatment. Re- 
c ery was radical.” 
As far as our personal experience in a city practice goes, and 
b far as we have been able to ascertain, canker is not a very 
[ nmon affection with us. But taking into consideration the 
f t of its possible existence to a serious extent in cities where 
^enic conditions are not well followed, we have thought that 
presentation of this case might prove to be of advantage to 
• readers, hoping, also, that some of them might be induced to 
e the treatment a trial, and to favor us with a report of the 
ults. 
Lesions of the Stomach in Relation to the Diagnosis of 
lues. —The importance of the lesions or abnormalities found 
< the post-mortem examinations of rabid animals which had not 
: an seen during life, cannot be denied. Indeed, it is acknowl- 
<| *ed that the observation of whatever changes may be found in 
) internal structures of the cadaver are, in fact, the surest 
ans of the confirmation of a correct diagnosis. In some few 
eases the post-mortem lesions are very often vague and of 
ubtful importance, or obscure, and not uncommonly absent, 
is is especially the case in those forms of disease which are 
ssified amongst nervous disorders, though more on account of 
air peculiar manifestations than of their pathological lesions, as 
• at least as ordinary observation by the naked eye extends. 
iese lesions, however, are easily rendered evident by microscopic 
aminations. The natural and important inference to be derived 
>m this condition is the lesson it should teach of the error of 
erlooking the value of those lesions when their existence is 
jertained. 
Rabies is perhaps of all diseases the one to which these re¬ 
irks most emphatically apply; for every one knows how few 
sitive lesions can be depended upon in the diagnosis of this 
dady in the cadaver of the dog. One lesion in particular, bow¬ 
er, has been so commonly found, and its presence so generally 
cognized by all writers on this subject, as well as by all careful 
