13$ DISEASES Class 1. 3. 1. it. 



1 1. Hydrophobia. Dread of water occafioned by the bite of a 

 mad-dog, is a violent inverfion of the motions of the eefcpha- 

 gus on the contact or even approach of water or other fluids. 

 The pharynx feems to have acquired the fenfibility of the larynx 

 in this difeafe, and is as impatient to reject any fluid which gets 

 into it. Is not the cardia ventriculi the feat of this difeafe ? As 

 in cardialgia the pain is often felt in the pharynx, when the acid 

 material ftimulates the other end of the canal, which terminates 

 in the ftomach. As this fatal difeafe refembles tetanus, or lock- 

 ed jaw, in its tendency to convulfion from a diftant wound, and 

 affects fome other parts by afTociation, it is treated of in Clafs 

 III. 1. 1. 15. and IV. 2. 1.7. 



M. M. I mould recommend the trial of one grain and a half 

 of corrofive fublimate of mercury, hydrargyrus muriatus, dif- 

 folved in half an ounce of rectified fpirit of wine, to be given 

 undiluted, if pofTible, as defcribed in Clafs II. 1. 5. I. and to be 

 repeated according to its operation* 



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