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claws in full length. I caught her tail’and scruff of neck 
to remove her, but she refused to let go either hold, so I 
knelt down, placing my right knee on her back and strangled 
her with my hand. Once I drew my revolver but I dared not 
fire against the cement cellar floor at that angle and so close 
range. I saw her eyes protruding ; not a gasp had passed her 
since I got my clutch. It seemed full five minutes before I 
could recognize her end. Her teeth were so firmly locked in 
my leg that I had to tear the flesh, in withdrawing the cat. The 
fang prints were 3^ inches apart; the spread of jaw was two 
inches, taking the bite along the axis of the leg. 
^ Was she rabid ? I don’t know. The owner is quite anxious. 
His wounds were cauterized, so were mine. He w'orries about 
it. I don’t, for outside of the savage tendency I could learn of 
no symptoms of rabies. 
The cat had been more or less cranky for some time ; when 
women passed her she would box at their skirts. If petted more 
than she wanted, would spit and scratch. In my opinion it was 
a development of that crankiness. 
The cat was taken to Dr. Frothingham, of Harvard Univer¬ 
sity, to make a cultivation from, on some rabbits. We’ll know 
more possibly after that. 
Later Developments .—Rabbits both became rabid inside two 
weeks. Man has gone to Pasteur Institute. Over a month has 
now elapsed since bite. 
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FRENCH REVIEW. 
D\stokia in a Cow—Caesarian Operation—Recovery 
\jBy Mr. Deraiii \. As the author says, this operation is not 
common in veterinary obstetrics, though a few cases are re¬ 
corded in operations on some animals. His case is unusually 
rp * *^111 ’* • 14 or 15 months old, had been 
suffering with labor pains since morning, and when Mr. D. was 
called he found that the size of the animal and the presentation 
of the enormous foetus, rendered impracticable all thoughts of 
embryotomy, and the Caesarian operation was perhaps the only 
way to save the mother. The operation was performed at night 
y acetylene lamp light, with as much antiseptic measures as 
possible, the foetus extracted alive, the uterus cleaned and the 
wound closed with sutures and dressing of iodoform. The 
