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M. PAUL BERT. 
January 19th, gained more use of leg; began to flex the joint 
some. Fomentation continued, and swelling about gone. 
January 20th, a movable splint, designed by S. Hasbrouck, 
M.D., was applied, so there was no lateral motion of the leg pos¬ 
sible ; was no change in the treatment until the 23d, when she 
was taken out of the slings and walked around the stable, which 
is quite a large one. Being replaced in the slings, this was con¬ 
tinued until the 26th, when she was allowed to go loose in the 
stall. On the 27th the splint and. bandages were removed, she 
took her exercise every day in the stable—about one-half hour at 
a time—until February 5th, when she was discharged, apparently 
as sound on this leg as any. Only a slight swelling of the tarsus 
remains, which was going down every day ; was no stiffness or 
soreness on trotting. 
PATHOLOGICAL PHYSIOLOGY. 
CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF RABIES. 
By M. Paul Bert. 
The following experiments are reported by the author in rela¬ 
tion to the researches of M. Pasteur upon that disease. He 
says: 
1st.—I performed from a furious rabid to a healthy dog the 
reciprocal transfusion of the totality of the blood. The healthy 
dog, kept for nearly a year, presented no rabid symptoms. The 
general condition of the mad dog was so far improved that his 
life was prolonged about 48 hours. 
2d.—I made researches to And out in which of the complex 
elements, which form the salvia of the mad dog, was the rabid 
virus. This saliva contains the parotid, maxilliary and sublingual 
Secretious, the buccal and broncho-pulmonary mucous. I then in¬ 
oculated to series of dogs either the mucous taken from the bron¬ 
chia or the produce of the salivary glands obtained by squeezing 
at the time the dog was destroyed, at the most furious period of 
hydrophobia. 
Then, the salivary fluids never communicated the disease,while 
