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enlargement remaining, can only be seen by getting close to 
her. 
Case 6.—Colt, one month old; compound fracture of tibia; 
leg set with splints and bandages ; let run in box-stall; splints 
worked loose in about ten days ; was re-set; colt was relieved 
of splints in seven weeks and leg very little crooked. 
These are only a few of the many cases I have treated in the 
past two years and are not picked cases, but just as they appear 
on my note-book. I will now conclude by thanking you for 
vour attention. 
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REPORTS OF CASES. 
‘ ‘ Careful observation makes a skillful practitioner, but his skill dies with him . By re¬ 
cording his observations, he adds to the knowledge of his profession, and assists by his facts 
n building tip the solid edifice of pathological science. ’ ’ 
TWO CASES OF EQUINE RABIES. 
By RoscoE R. BELL, D. V. S., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
For one veterinarian to meet two cases of this affection in a 
few days more than one month is a record seldom equalled. 
But, so far as clinical appearances go, such has been the experi¬ 
ence in my practice. Whether observers who have the time and 
opportunity to search for the specific germ or inoculate small 
animals to reproduce the symptoms are willing to accept my 
diagnosis, I know not. But the manifestations of the symptoms 
were absolutely unlike any other condition met with in an ac¬ 
tive practice of some thirteen years, and were so closely allied 
to those employed by authors in describing equine rabies, that I 
have no hesitation in accepting them as cases of true rabies of 
the furious form. The first case occurred on Saturday morning, 
September 9, while I was in New York City, in attendance upon 
the meeting of the State Veterinary Medical Society. The call 
was responded to by my assistant, Dr. Walter Lincoln Bell (Mc¬ 
Gill ’98), and the following description of the symptoms pre¬ 
sented are furnished by him : 
Case No. I .—Gray gelding, about 10 years, in good bodily 
condition, property of Mr. Stottinan, grocer, Sixth Avenue and 
Fifth Street, City. Had been put in his stall on Friday evening 
apparently in the best of health, but when fed in the morning it 
