REPORTS OF CASES. 
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litteo of the highest order, who, after careful personal investi- 
ation, put it down at half that percentage. The report further 
ays: 4t From this it would follow that since of the total num- 
er of ninety patients sixty-three were bitten by dogs known to 
e rabid, and the remainder by dogs whose rabidity was in some 
istances probable, and, in any case, as well investigated as in 
iiose instances on which the gross statistics at present available 
re founded, at least three patients should have died of hydro- 
hobia had they not been subjected to M. Pasteur’s treatment.” 
fet while placing this low estimate upon the cases treated, they 
^knowledge the one all-important fact, “ that the material he 
mploys for inoculation is actually the virus of rabies,” besides 
oming to the conclusion that the interval between the bite and 
he first inoculation should not exceed fourteen days. 
I am indebted to Dr. Fleming for a copy of the following 
ases, which were taken from M. Pasteur’s note-book. I con- 
ider them of far more value than comments, and so forward 
hem, in the hope that they will be laid before the profession of 
his country. They are dry facts, but they, in my opinion, speak 
'olumes : 
{To be continued .) 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
ACTINOMYKOCIS BOYIS. 
$y Dr. Wm. Herbert Lowe, State Veterinary Inspector, Paterson, New Jersey. 
I was called, February 18th, 1885, to see a very interesting 
•-ase. A cow owned by R. G. Ryerson, of Mountain View, N. J. 
vas prostrate and in a very emaciated condition. I think I never 
iaw a cow living have so deathly an appearance. There was a 
r ery great enlargement of the inferior maxillary region. In look- 
ng earnestly at the condition, while hearing the history of the 
»ase, I was forcibly impressed with the idea that I had a verit- 
ible case of actinomycosis, described by Fleming as u a new in¬ 
action disease of animals and mankind.” The owner agreed with 
ne that the cow had better be destroyed. I held a post-mortem 
it once and sent the inferior and superior maxillary regions, 
