The _treatment_ of such cases should be actively antiseptic to destroy the germ while still local. After opening and evacuating the abscesses, excise or curette the diseased tissue, or destroy with the actual cautery, pack the cavities with pledgets soaked in tincture of iodine, iodized phenol creolin, lysol, mercuric chloride, zinc chloride, or copper sulphate, or dusted with aristol, iodoform, or iodized starch. The surrounding swelling, if any, may be painted with tincture of iodine, or covered with cloths wet with a sublimate lotion or other antiseptic. Internally, tonics and antiseptics may be given: arsenite of strychnia, quinia, iron or copper sulphate, sulphites or hyposulphites of soda or potash. RABIES AND HYDROPHOBIA. Synonyms. Definition: Acute, infectious, cerebral disease, of domestic and wild carnivora, shown by intellectual, emotional, and aggressive nervous disorder, and extreme nervous excitability. Animals susceptible: canine and feline animals, biting animals and those bitten, of all warm blooded kinds; receptivity greatest in carnivora. Geographical distribution: where population is most dense, trade and movement most active—north temperate zone. Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Azores, St. Helena immune—protected by quarantine. Islands in Elbe, places with enforced muzzling. Causes: contagion; inoculation; rutting; skunk bites; absence of flowing robes (men, children). Virulent matters: saliva, bronchial mucus, flesh, blood (not in sheep?), milk, (in advanced stages), nerve tissue. Morbific agent particulate; filtered liquid noninfecting: blastomyces, bacillus, found but not uniformly: claims of brain symptoms from each. Viability; saliva virulent for 11 days; brain 3 weeks at 32° to 63° F., for months aseptic and in contact with carbon dioxide; water 20 to 38 days; body in grave 44 days; virulence lost by drying in thin layer yet kennels remain long infecting; glycerine preserves; robbed of virulence by iodine, citric acid, bromine, chlorine, sulphurous and mineral acid and cupric sulphate. Bites of men effective to 50 per cent., protection by clothes, wool, flow of blood, cleaning of teeth by succession of bites. Infection by licking, sneezing, coughing, inhaling, feeding. Incubation 15 to 60 days in dog, 20 to 45 days in horse, 14 to 60 days in sheep, swine and cattle, 14 to 64 days in man. Prolonged cases doubtful. Symptoms in dogs: change in disposition, more amiable or morose, dull, apathetic, excitable, unwonted silence or howling, restless, depraved appetite, swallowing small objects, searching, tearing sticks or clothes, licking cold stone or genital organs, hiding in dark corner, dull expression, irritation where bitten, hoarse voice, rabid howl, eyes follow unreal objects, snaps at them, listens for unreal sounds, irritability, fury when threatened with stick or shown another dog, bites without growl, bears master’s