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bative stage. It was that of a soldier who had been bitten in Al¬ 
geria, the 2d of November, 1874, and died four and a half years 
afterwards. From a minute inquiry Mr. Colin arrived at the 
following conclusions : 1st. It was certainly a mad dog which had 
bitten that soldier in Algeria, as the individual he tried to assist 
had died of hydrophobia forty days after. 2d. Since that inocu¬ 
lation in November, 1874, he had felt no effect from it, and had 
not been exposed to any other accident. 3d. The previous his¬ 
tory of the patient, the symptoms observed, the lesions found, 
exclude all presumption.of alcoholism.— Gazette Medicate. 
BORIC ACID IN GREASE. 
An ointment of boric acid, prepared according to the pres¬ 
cription of Neumann, is said to be most beneficial in that disease 
of the lower parts of the extremities. These are washed off with 
tepid water, or better, with a weak solution of the acid, and then 
the ointment laid over the diseased parts.— Report fur Thierheil- 
kunde. 
PREVENTIVE INOCULATION OF PL EURO-PNEUMONIA. 
Iii the excellent chronicle of the Recueil de Medecine Veteri- 
naire of last month, Mr. H. Bonley says: “Notwithstanding the 
numerous facts collected from all parts of the world, which speak 
in favor of the practice of preventive inoculation of pleuro-pneu- 
monia, doubts remain yet in some minds regarding its efiicacity, 
because it is sometimes unsuccessful. There is also another rea¬ 
son. It is that the inoculation is not accompanied with pulmonary 
manifestations—viz.: that it does not repeat in its form and its 
seat, the disease from which the inoculated virus proceeds, as it 
generally happens for other virulent diseases. To remove those 
doubts and judge definitely, the question of knowing if the pneu¬ 
monic inoculation truly infects the whole organism, one might 
