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of disappointment has been found in the alleged or suspected 
impure condition of the particular preparation which has been 
used, and it has been claimed that the employment of pure car¬ 
bolic acid, or the phenic acid proper, would not have been so fre 
quently followed by bad results. 
As an established fact, phenic acid, (prepared by the process 
of its discoverer, Dr. Declat), has now taken a high place among 
the adjuncts of both human and veterinary surgery ; and our con¬ 
clusions from the few experiments which we have personally 
•made, have been of a highly satisfactory character, inasmuch as 
they have fixed in our judgment the conviction that it offers to 
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the veterinarian an agent, of great excellence and efficiency, for 
the dressing of wounds in the true antiseptic manner. 
Besides the solution of pure phenic acid which we have our¬ 
selves employed, we have dressed many wounds with iodo-phenol 
—a preparation of iodine and phenic acid in combination—and 
with this have obtained, in the treatment of cartilaginous quitter, 
results which, if they should multiply by repetition, would to a 
great extent relieve us of the necessity of the surgical operation 
familiar to all of us. 
The report of two serious cases of the disease mentioned, thus 
treated, are given in our present issue, and will, we believe, largely 
encourage our colleagues to test this comparatively new pre¬ 
paration. 
PHYSIOLOGICAL PATHOLOGY. 
NEW EXPERIMENTS IN RABIES. 
By Messes. Pasteuk, Chambeeland and Roux. 
(Read before the Academic des Sciences of Paris.) 
(Continued from page 83.) 
6th. In my preceding report on rabies, I stated that we had 
found cases of the disappearance of the first rabid symptoms with 
a reappearance of the disease in the same dog after a long inter¬ 
val. We have since noticed the existence of the same fact in rab 
bits, as in the following example: A rabbit, taken with rabid 
