RABIES AND HYDROPHOBIA. 
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Dr. Wilfred J. Lellman, New York College of Veterinary 
Surgeons, New York, four cases in his own practice and two in 
Dr. Gill’s in one session. 
Dr. Robert J. Wilson, Assistant Bacteriologist, Department 
of Health, New York, has confirmed the diagnosis during the 
last three years of 40 cases in domestic animals and three cases 
in human subjects. 
Dr. Leonard Pearson, Veterinary Department, University of 
Pennsylvania, estimates 300 to 400 cases in 14 years. As State 
Veterinarian has found a great deal of rabies among farm ani¬ 
mals. In many cases diagnosis has been sustained by labora¬ 
tory tests. In man during last year, two cases in Lancaster, one 
in Kennett Square, one in Philadelphia, one in Allegheny. 
Three years ago a prominent veterinarian of Pennsylvania died 
of rabies. 
Dr. J. M. Wright, McKillip Veterinary College, Chicago, from 
January 1, 1900, to April 5, 1900, had seen 11 cases in the dog 
and three in the horse. Handles about 20 cases of rabies a 
year. 
Dr. A. H. Baker, Chicago Veterinary College, Chicago, has 
had in last year about ten cases in horses and 50 in dogs. 
Dr. James Law, New York State Veterinary College, Ithaca, 
N. Y., has had brains of rabid animals repeatedly sent there for 
diagnosis, from which successful inoculations have been made. 
He brought a piece of the medulla of Neil, the keeper of the 
dog pound at Newark, N. J., who died as the result of being bit¬ 
ten by a rabid dog, and inoculated a dog and a number of rab¬ 
bits, some on the brain, others subcutaneously. All developed, 
rabies. Has the best of evidence of a number of men who died 
of rabies and from whom inoculation with saliva or brain sub¬ 
stance caused rabies in the lower animals. 
Dr. S. Stewart, Kansas City Veterinary College, says that n 
or 12 cases have been brought to the hospital within three years, 
five within one year. 
Dr. John J. Repp, Veterinary Department, Iowa State Col¬ 
lege, says Dr. J. R. Sanders, of Corydon, Iowa, has noted 18 
