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knew how it showed itself at the commencement, it would 
always be possible to prevent its ravages by chaining up the 
dog at the moment when it is not yet dangerous, and thus 
hindering it from obeying the instinct that impels it to escape 
from the dwelling of its owner, and to spread in every direc¬ 
tion the terrible contagion for which it serves as recipient 
and vehicle. 
“ The author of the work of which I have made this brief 
analysis, proposes, with this view, the very useful vulgarisation 
of the symptoms of rabies; and in order to realise this pro¬ 
ject, he has compared his own experience with that of authori¬ 
ties of every country who have written on this strange malady. 
Thanks to this concours, always duly acknowledged, he has 
made his book the most complete, perhaps, which has ever 
been published on the subject.”"* 
CATTLE DISEASE IN CHINA—RINDERPEST. 
(Continued from p. 51.) 
In one case, reported at page 68, I was informed before 
the nostrils were examined after death, that there had been 
no such discharge, but I found the cavities nearly filled 
with fluid of a most offensive character exuded from an 
extensively diseased surface of mucous membrane. Dis¬ 
charge from the eyes is seldom absent; when the con¬ 
junctival inflammation is severe it gives a very marked 
character to the head; the eyes then appear deeply sunk 
between the red edges of the swollen lids, from which a 
profuse purulent discharge escapes, accumulating at the inner 
angles and running down the sides of the nose. I noticed 
tolerably profuse salivation in one or two cases. In the hope 
of inducing the sick animal to resume chewing the cud, the 
natives occasionally tie a band of hay across the mouth, in 
champing which an increased flow of frothy saliva gathers, 
and running from the lips may deceive the observer who is 
looking for increased discharge from the mouth and nostrils 
as a sign of disease. Dysenteric purging is a marked and 
constant symptom in the advanced stages of the disease, and 
bears a pretty close relation to the severity of the intestinal 
lesions. In my second memorandum I noted the reason¬ 
ableness of anticipating that the bowels would chiefly suffer 
in Shanghai. The laboured breathing is peculiar, inspiration 
shallow, and expiration a grunt. In many cases this depends 
* ‘ Comptes Rendus des Seances de l’Academie des Sciences, 5 No. 1G 
(October 14, 1872), page 894. 
