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dangerous mainly to those who voluntarily approach him, and he 
shows no mischievous propensity to inoculate other animals or 
man with his dreadful infection. But the rabid dog seems as if 
the impersonation of evil. Himself suffering from one of the 
most excruciating and hopeless of diseases, he seeks to fasten his 
venomous fangs in the flesh of every living creature, as if he 
took a malignant pleasure in inflicting his own agonies on all 
. within his reach. Nor is this peculiarity confined to the rabid 
dog. All animals that naturally use their teeth as weapons of 
offense, when attacked by the violent type of rabies are seized 
with a similar uncontrollable desire to bite; and as the saliva of 
the sick is alike virulent in all genera, the danger of the propa 
gation of the malady in this way is very great. The losses from 
rabies among men and farm animals run far higher than is gen¬ 
erally supposed, and arc confined to no season, the popular 
prejudice against the dog days to the contrary notwithstanding. 
In seeking to reduce these or obviate them altogether much is to 
be done in the way of—first, regulating the keeping of dogs; 
second, in advice for the private management of dogs by their 
owners; third, in protection against the free importation of dogs 
from countries in which rabies abounds; fourth, in acquainting 
the general public as to the early symptoms of rabies; fifth, in 
the destruction of all rabid dogs and of all exposed animals that 
naturally use their teeth as weapons of offense ; sixth, in the 
supervision and frequent examination of exposed animals of gen¬ 
era that do not use the teeth, for a sufficient length of time to 
insure that no form of the disease, either of a violent or occult 
type, shall be developed. The destruction of the rabid animal 
may safely be left to people in the locality, but further precau¬ 
tions would demand the interference of a board of health ; hence 
all cases of rabies should be reported to it, that suitable protective 
measures may be taken. 
MALIGNANT ANTHRAX IN ALL DOMESTIC ANIMALS, AND MALIGNANT 
PUSTULE AND INTESTINAL ANTHRAX (MYCOSIS) IN MAN. 
In all the protean forms of malignant anthrax in animals, we 
find an infecting material which is not only deadly to quadrupeds, 
