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danger of contracting the disease for all persons or animals which, 
in whatever circumstances, might have introduced rabid virus in 
the digestive apparatus. 
1 am verifying the fact of the immunity by intra-venous injec¬ 
tion by experiments on dogs, and am aiming to ascertain whether 
intra-venous injection of the virus done the next or the second 
day after a bite or a rabid inoculation may preserve from rabies. 
—Archives Veterinaires. 
MEAT OF THE DOG FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION IN BELGIUM. 
Having been requested to report upon the propriety of allow, 
ing the meat of dogs to be introduced for public consumption 
with that of cattle, horses, and other herbivorous animals, the 
Council of the Veterinary School of Belgium has come to the 
following conclusions: 
1. There is no reason for preventing the sale of the meat of 
dogs for public use any more than that of any other ordinary 
butchers’ meat. 
2. It ought not to be exposed for sale unless it has been sub¬ 
mitted to the inspection of an official veterinary inspector, the 
inspection to be made upon the living animal immediately before 
it is killed. 
3. As part of this inspection, it is recommended that the meat 
must be rejected from consumption of (a) dogs in poor condition 
of flesh, and (b) dogs which present symptoms and lesions of dis¬ 
ease of some seriousness, amongst which may be mentioned rabies, 
even when it is only the object of suspicion; rachitism, dropsy, 
distemper, suppurative tumors and those of malignant character, 
gastro-enteritis, hepatitis, peritonitis, any serious diseases of the 
lungs and pleura, etc. ; that whether there is disease or not the 
oesophagus, stomach and gastro-intestinal organs be thrown away; 
that the meat be sold in a special market and labelled according 
to its kind; and to reject all meat of animals which have not died 
by jugulation (or bleeding) as certified by the veterinary sur¬ 
geon .—Annals of Brussels. 
