298 DISEASES Class III. i. 1. 15, 



In other refpe&s, as it is produced by the faliva of an enrag- 

 ed animal initilled into a wound, it would feem analogous to 

 the poifon of venomous animals. And from the manner of its ac- 

 cefs fo long after the bite, and of its termination in a fhort time, 

 it would feem to refemble the progrefs of contagious fevers. 

 See Sed. XXir. 3. 3. 



If the patient was bitten in a part, which could be totally cut 

 away, as a finger, even after the hydrophobia appears, it is prob- 

 able it might eure it ; as I fufpeft the caufe ftill remains in the 

 wounded tendon, and not in a difFufed infection tainting the 

 blood. Hence there are generally uneafy fenfations, as cold or 

 numbnefs, in the old cicatrix, before the hydrophobia .commenc- 

 es. See a cafe in Medical Communications, Vol. II. p. 190. 



If the difeafed tendon could be inflamed without cutting it 

 out, as by cupping, or cauftic, or blifter after cupping, and thil 

 in the old wound long fince healed, after the hydrophobia com- 

 mences, it might prevent the fpafms about the throat. As in- 

 flaming the teeth by the ufe of mercury is of ufe in fome kinds 

 of hemicrania. Put fpirit of turpentine on the wound, warn it 

 well. See Clafs I. 3. 1. n. IV. 1.2. 7. 



M. M. Wine, mufk, oil, internally. Opium, mercurial oint- 

 ment, ufed extenfively. Mercurial fumigation. Turpeth min- 

 eral. To falivate the patient as foon as poflible. Exfeftion or 

 a cauflic on the fear, even after the appearance of hydrophobia. 

 Put a tight bandage on the limb above the fear of the old wound 

 to benumb the pained tendon, however long the wound may 

 have been healed. Could a hollow catheter of elaftic gum, ca- 

 outchouc, be introduced into the cefophagus by the mouth or 

 noftril, and liquid nourifhment be thus conveyed into the (torn- 

 ach ? See Default's Journal, Cafe I. where in an ulcer of the 

 mouth, fuch a catheter was introduced by the noftril, and kept 

 in the cefophagus for a month, by which means the patient was 

 nouriihed and preferved. 



It is recommended by Dr. Bardlley to give oil internally by a 

 flmilar method contrived by Mr. John Hunter. He covered a 

 probang with the (kin of a irnall eel, or the gut of a lamb or cat. 

 It was tied up at one end above and below the fponge, and a flit 

 made above the upper ligature j to the other end of the eel fkin 

 or gut was fixed a bladder and pipe. The probang thus cover- 

 ed was introduced into the flomach, and the liquid food or med- 

 icine waj put into the bladder and fqueezed down through the 

 eel-{kin. Mem. of Society at Manchelter. See Clafs I. 2. 3. 25. 



Dr. Bardfiey has endeavoured to prove, that dogs never ex- 

 perience the hydrophobia, or canine madnefs, without having 

 been previoufly bitten or infected ; and fecondly, that the dif- 



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