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machine being a means of transport, the prophylaxy is indicated, 
and we would suggest to our fiiends to resort to it. See that 
the clipper does not infect your horse. 
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Rabies in Egypt.— Decidedly legends die out, as the 
Semaine Veterinaire informs us that dogs in Egypt are becom¬ 
ing rabid just as well as European and American doggies do. 
It is to English importation that the disease is traced. A ter¬ 
rier landed in Egypt, in a traveling excursion to see the pyra¬ 
mids, had become rabid and died after inoculating several of his 
kind. In the Annales de Belgique it has been stated that there 
were no positive proofs that rabies existed before this. But old 
writings insist on the danger of the bites of snakes, alligators 
or dogs. In the Medecine Moderne I read the story of a man 
who, having been condemned to die from the bite of one 
of those animals, killed the snake, crushed the alligator, but 
died from the bites of the dog. 
It is stated that actually the treatment of the bite of a rabid 
animal in high Egypt is to kill the dog, extract his spinal cord 
and with earth make a paste which is applied over the whole 
body of a sufferer. Sometimes the hairs of the dog are 
burnt and the wound of the man dressed with the ashes. 
Arabs and people from the Soudan eat the raw liver of the dog. 
In low Egypt an old remedy having for base a blistering insect, 
the kylabris unctata, is used. u They are decidedly behind 
time in Egypt.” 
PROFESSIONAL PHILANTHROPY. 
Under this heading in a recent issue (February, 1899—Vol. 
XXII, page 733) we drew the attention of our confreres to the 
advantages that might be derived by the organization of an asso¬ 
ciation similar to the one existing in the United States under 
the name of the “ Physicians’ Mutual Benefit Association,” and 
to that of France, the u Association Generale des Veterinaires.” 
After presenting our suggestions, we asked the comments of our 
