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T 1 e duration of incubation has been, respectively, seven, 
twenty and twenty-five days. The first two dogs had the par¬ 
alytic, and the third the furious barking and biting form of 
rabies. 
We have verified the fact that, although small quantities may 
have failed to produce rabies, the animal may secure it by new 
inoculations. In other words, inoculations of small quantities do 
not insure immunity. 
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ELIMINATION OF THE LEFT KIDNEY, FOLLOWING AN INCISION 
IN THE RUMEN OF A COW. 
By M. Miohaud. 
The subject of this case was an animal which had been oper¬ 
ated upon by an empiric, by an incision of the rumen, for the 
relief of an excessive meteorization. Six days afterward she was 
in a very bad condition and had lost flesh considerably. The 
parts where she had been operated upon were covered with a 
thick plaster of pitch. The incision, which had been made at the 
left flank and through the rumen, in order to allow the removal 
of food from the cavity of that organ, was closed by the plaster. 
This being washed off the infiltrated edges appeared covered with 
food expelled from the rumen and mixed with sloughing cellular 
tissue. The part had become the seat of a very offensive odor. 
The division of the tissues had been made quite near to the last 
rib and parallel with it, and extended to the transverse processes of 
the lumbar vetebrse. The prognosis was a very serious one. The 
wound was carefully cleaned and dressed several times a day, with 
phenic solution, and covered with a compress of the same kind. A 
few days later the parts had begun to look better; sloughing 
cellular tissue was easily removed, but the bottom of the wound 
appeared a greasy, diseased mass of similar tissue, to remove 
which required the introduction of the hand into the abdominal 
cavity. Upon the removal and examination of this mass it proved 
