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might be, in a country free from any taint of the plague. Lan¬ 
guage strong enough cannot be found to denounce the suggestion. 
Knowing as we do that the so-called recovered (I use the term 
c so-called 5 because I do not believe perfect recovery of the lung 
is possible from this disease) and the inoculated cases are the 
secret sources of dissemination of contagion in this disease, and 
those occult outbreaks, properly traced up, would be referable to 
a recovered or an inoculated case .”—National Live-Stock Journal. 
Interesting Case of Rabies at Bradford.— We understand 
that one of-the Bradford police force was a fortnight ago severely 
bitten by a dog supposed to be mad. The evidence obtained 
from a post-mortem examination of the animal, made by Dr. 
Hime, was, as is usual, quite undecisive. However, Dr. Hime, 
to decide the question, applied Pasteur’s test, by inoculation of a 
rabbit with material taken from the dog, he being the first to do 
so in this country. The rabbit has shown the usual symptoms 
of rabies, and there is no longer any doubt as to the dog 
having been rabid. It had bitten the man on two fingers of 
his right hand, and died ten days after while under H i rue’s 
observation. It is extremely fortunate that Dr. Hime, who for a 
considerable time was in Paris studying Pasteur’s method, has 
been thus able to utilize his knowledge of the subject. He has 
previously been able, by application of the same method, to pro¬ 
nounce several suspected dogs to be free from rabies. Fortu¬ 
nately the policeman was, by Dr. Hime’s advice, despatched to 
Paris for treatment, and His public history will be watched with 
interest. Dr. Hime, it will be remembered, took over to Pasteur 
a party of nine persons bitten by a rabid dog last March, and 
subsequently had himself to undergo a course of treatment by M. 
Pasteur for serious injuries received. One person bitten by the 
same dog which bit the nine died of rabies, but he was not treated 
by Pasteur .—London Lancet. 
