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ion promulgated by State Yeterinarian Holcombe, we lay be¬ 
fore our readers, in our present issue, the report of Dr. Faville, 
together with an extract from that of State Yeterinarian Hop¬ 
kins. These three reports express very different opinions. On 
one hand, a severe contagious disease is recognized, which might, 
after all, have found its way, (and perhaps it has), down to Kan¬ 
sas, seeing it has been permitted to land in Maine. Again, we 
have a theory of ergotism, to be followed by a third, which de¬ 
termines it to have been foot-rot. If these opinions are authori¬ 
tative, which one is the right ? 
Is it not time we heard something from the head-quarters? 
Cannot the Yeterinarian of the Agricultural Department favor 
the profession with his report ? He certainly has had ample 
time to put it in form, and if experiments have been necessary to 
a decision, to have given us their results long before this. 
The veterinary profession are waiting for the report of Dr. 
Salmon. 
PHYSIOLOGICAL PATHOLOGY. 
NEW EXPERIMENTS ON RABIES. 
By Messrs. Pasteur, Chamberland and Roux. 
(Read before the Academic des Sciences of Paris.) 
The new facts which I solicit the honor in my own and the 
names of my collaborators to communicate, have all been developed 
by the use of tw T o highly effective methods. These are the 
inoculation of the rabid virus on the surface of the brain, by 
trephining; the other by the injection of that virus into the cir¬ 
culatory system. 
The word threphining suggests the idea of a long operation, 
with a difficult manipulation. But this suggestion is a faulty 
one. Amongst the hundreds of operations practised upon dogs, 
rabbits, guinea pigs, hens, monkeys and sheep, the failures count 
very few. And as to the dexterity in execution wdiich it requires, 
it is certainly very easy of acquirement by almost an y person. 
A young assistant of my own laboratory very rapidly learned 
