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have acquired from the numerous experiments made during the 
past four years, it is not without apprehension that I publish to¬ 
day these facts, which show nothing else but a possible prophy¬ 
laxy of rabies. If I had had at my disposal sufficient material 
means, I would have been happy to make this communication 
only after having asked from some of my confreres of the Acad¬ 
emy of Sciences, and of the Academy of Medicine, to confirm the 
conclusions I have made known just now. 
It is in obedience to tiiese motives and to this hesitation that 
I have taken the liberty to write to Mr. Fallieres, the Sec* 
retary of Public Institutions, asking him to name a commis¬ 
sion to whom I could submit my dogs refractory to rabies. 
The master experiment that I would first attempt would con¬ 
sist in taking from my kennel 20 refractory dogs, which would 
be compared to 20 other dogs as witnesses. All these forty dogs 
would be made to be bitten by rabid dogs. If the facts I have 
mentioned are correct the 20 dogs considered by me as refractory 
would all resist, while the 20 witnesses would become rabid. 
A second experiment not less conclusive would consist 
in taking 40 dogs, 20 vaccinated before the commission and 20 
unvaccinated as witnesses. The 40 animals will be after¬ 
wards trephined with the virus of dogs with street rabies. The 
20 vaccinated dogs will resist while the 20 others will all die of 
either paralytic or rabid hydrophobia .—Revue Scientifique. 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
HOSPITAL RECORDS. 
SARCOMATOUS TUMOR OF THE MAXILLARY SPACE. 
By F. S. Allen, B.S., D.V.S., House Surgeon. 
The patient is a black gelding, about seven years old, the prop¬ 
erty of a Brooklyn physician. He was brought to the hospital 
on the second of May, for treatment for a tumor stated to be of 
about one year’s growth ; of small dimensions at first, but latterly 
increasing in size, until at the present time it has assumed very 
considerable proportions; the horse, however, being in other re- 
