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B. Brodie, Sir C. Bell, Babington and Bright, examiner in the Veterinary 
College; and its president, Coleman, he called ‘ for forty years his best 
made friend.’ It is often wondered at, that, in this country, we have 
no institution for the study of veterinary science ; and, just now, the 
carrying out of the cattle disease acts, give abundant work for those 
qualified, by examination elsewhere, in bovine and indeed in human 
medicine.”— Veterinary Journal. 
A CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA IN A SISTER OF CHARITY, 
Sister S-was in the country, with a sick child, where several 
mad dogs had been seen ; one day, while promenading with a band of 
five children, the oldest of which was about eight years old, she was 
suddenly attacked by a large shepherd dog ; at the sight of the brute, with 
his ferocious appearance, his dribbling mouth, she at once saw the 
danger, and, throwing herself between the frightened children and the 
furious animal, she resisted his attacks. She was, from the first moment, 
frightfully beaten, and the dog, excited by the hallooing of the children, 
was about turning upon them, when she resolutely sacrificed herself. 
Protecting, with her body, the children hanging on her clothes and cry¬ 
ing with fright, the brave woman stepped forward to the dog and with 
courage attacked him. During more than ten minutes she held him, 
rolling with him on the ground, trying to choke him, and pushing her 
fist in his mouth, unminding the. laceration of his fangs ; only then, the 
dog, frightened by peasants which came to her assistance, gave up his 
hold to attack its new aggressors, who killed him. The sister went 
away, her hands and arms torn by fifteen deep wounds, and with one 
large artery open and bleeding. Though carefully attended by the 
general mode of treatment, the brave woman died shortly afterwards ; 
happy of having given her life to save those of the five children com¬ 
mitted to her care .—Gazette Hebdomadaire. 
NECROLOGY. 
DANGER OF POST-MORTEM OF RABID DOGS. 
Mr. Moreau, Veterinarian of La Capelle (Aisne, France) has just 
succumbed—victim of one of those dangerous duties pertaining to his 
profession. Requested to make the autopsy of a vagrant dog, which 
had been killed in the street as being suspected of being mad, he 
attended to that duty without paying attention to a few scratches he 
