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of the accident. There resulted eleven pigs, of whom four 
were soon smothered by the mother, who was in too narrow 
a sty and could not turn without difficulty. The other seven, 
freely fed by the mother, whose health remained perfect, grew 
rapidly. M. Giamperi had naturally forewarned Gentili of 
the probabilities of the appearance of rabies in his sow after 
the bite, so Gentili, to avert the evil which threatened him, 
had the animal blessed by the cure of the parish ! a vain pre¬ 
caution, for one day—the fourteenth after the bite—appeared 
the symptoms of the inherent disease, such as have been 
described above. On the' forty-fifth day, the fifth after the 
commencement of the disease, vomition and paralysis oc¬ 
curred, and she was slaughtered that evening. But strange 
to say, during the five days that the attack lasted, the sow 
continued to perform her maternal duties to her progeny, 
and did not attempt to bite them. The seven pigs after the 
death of their mother developed ‘regularly and were all in a 
flourishing state of health up to the month of March. They 
w r ere then six months old. Then an epizootic of angina char- 
bonacea, which occurred in the locality, destroyed six of 
them. The seventh, the sole survivor, is now more than a 
year old, and has never shown the least sign of disease, 
and is a very fine animal. This interesting report by M. 
Giamperi is in confirmation of what we already know con¬ 
cerning the retarding influence of gestation or lactation on 
the evolution of rabies, and of the innocuousness of milk 
from rabid females, which may be from the virus of 
rabies being absent from milk, or from its destruction in the 
alimentary canal. 
Giornale di Medicina Veterinaria Practica, January, 1879. 
—Impediment to Parturition due to a Membrane which com¬ 
pletely obstructed the Vagma of a Cow , by M. Cantoni, 
Sorbolo (Parmesan).—Early in August, 1878, the author 
was called to visit a cow, aged about 4 years, with the second 
calf, and who had for two days ineffectually suffered from 
labour pains. Before the arrival of the veterinary surgeon 
she was seen by the inevitable empiric, who had diagnosed 
torsion of the womb, considered the case incurable, and 
advised slaughter of the patient. M. Cantoni introduced his 
hand into the vulva and soon felt a membrane placed ver¬ 
tically, which completely obstructed the natural passage and 
caused the vagina to terminate in a cut cle sac. By scraping 
with his forefinger the practitioner made an opening in the 
centre of this septum, through which escaped a quantity of 
fluid. Then reintroducing his hand into the vagina he re¬ 
moved the membrane in portions and without difficulty ; it 
