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Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
RABIES. 
The subject of Rabies has of late received more than 
an ordinary share of attention, and it must be confessed 
not without reason. The malady would appear not only to 
be assuming a greater degree of virulence in those countries 
in which its presence has for centuries been known, but also to 
be becoming more frequent. The number of people who perish 
from hydrophobia is larger every year, and the malady is 
making itself manifest in regions where it was formerly un¬ 
known, or so rare as not to be noted. At a seance of the 
French Academy of Sciences, held at Paris on the 14th of 
October, 1872, notice was drawn to these facts by M. 
Bouley, the distinguished veterinarian, and Member of the 
Institute of France, who is now director and inspector 
of the French veterinary schools. We extract from the 
Comptes Rendus of the Academy of Sciences, just published, 
the following allusion to it. 
M. Bouley, in presenting to the Academy a work in 
English by Mr. Fleming, and containing a complete study of 
Rabies and Hydrophobia, expressed himself as follows :—“ I 
have the honour to present to the Academy, on behalf of Mr. 
George Fleming, President of the Central Veterinary Medical 
Society of England, a book having for its title Rabies 
and Hydrophobia, with this epigraph borrowed from Celsus : 
“ Miserrimum genus morbi. In quo simul seger et siti et 
aquae metu cruciatur. Guo oppressis, in angusto spes est.” 
“ In this work Mr. Fleming gives the history of Rabies 
from the earliest times up to our own; then he traces its 
geography, and shows that it is a rare malady in regions of 
extreme temperature, as the tropical and glacial regions; 
while it is, on the contrary, frequent in temperate countries, and 
chiefly in Europe, where it appears to have acquired a charac¬ 
ter for a greater degree of virulence than it has previously had, 
while, at the same time, its manifestations are becoming 
more numerous. In Europe it is not uniformly spread; it is 
in France, Germany, Upper Italy^ and Holland/ that it is 
most frequent; but it is rare in Spain, and almost unknown 
in Portugal. In England, cases of rabies, at one time very 
unfrequent, have greatly multiplied since the commencement 
of the century; f so that,’ says Mr. Fleming, f if we do not 
have recourse to general measures, England will soon suffer 
as severely from this terrible malady as France and Germany.’ 
