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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
THE VETERINARY MEDICAL BILL IN GREAT BRITAIN. 
The Veterinary Medical Bill which it has been proposed to 
obtain in England to protect veterinary surgeons, and to which 
we alluded in one of our last issues, is to be carried through Bar- 
liament as a Government measure. As such, its successful passage 
is almost assured, and one great advantage will be granted to the 
veterinary surgeons of Great Britain.— Veterinarian. 
RABIES IN THE HORSE. 
By J. C. Berne, M.R.C.V. S. 
This is a case of an artillery horse, which was bitten by a dog- 
on the 4th of July, at the superior part of the near nostril, and 
which, after an incubative stage of sixty days, began to show 
peculiar symptoms, described as follows: 
The patient was a good-tempered, high-spirited horse, 13 years 
old. The earliest symptom manifested was on the 22d of Sep¬ 
tember, when he was reported “ shaking and trembling.” On 
this day there happened to be a battery drill, and the horse was 
taken out by the Sergeant-Major, who usually rode him. On 
being mounted he was disinclined to move, but having once started, 
his natural free action seemed to return. Before reaching the 
parade ground, and during the commencement of the drill, he 
acquitted himself in his usual form, so that the impression cretted 
at starting of something being amiss with him was removed. 
Shortly after the battery exercise had begun he seemed to 
“•give” under his rider. He was then pulled up. Whilst at rest 
he began to bite the Sergeant-Major’s left foot. This was not 
the sort of playfulness that horses at times are addicted to ; it was 
more of a vicious snapping, and consequently attracted attention. 
During the return of the battery to the barracks ho moved quite 
as lazily as at starting, nor did he respond to the pressure of the 
rider’s legs. 
