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period till the dread of water appear. The third, 
from the firft appearance of that fymptom to the 
clofe of the difeafe. 
The treatment of the firft and fecond confifts of 
the various mteans of prevention. That of the third, 
the methods of cure after the difeafe has a€ually 
made its appearance. : 
Though no certain cure of the hydrophobia has 
yet been difcovered, yet, if by timely precaution that 
dreadful malady can be prevented; as in general I 
think it undoubtedly may, prevention in the firft in- 
{tance will be acknowledged to be better, though 
lefs brilliant, than cure. 
Among the various modes of prevention hitherto 
employed, the grand error, I am convinced, has been 
in treating a local affeftion as a general difeafe; 
and in trufting the cure to certain internal remedies, 
confidered as antidotes; while the poifon has been 
fuffered to lie dormant in the wound, and confe- 
quently far beyond their reach. 
May not this be the principal reafon, why the dif- 
eafe has, during thefe 2500 years paft, uniformly 
triumphed over all the boafted remedies that have 
been invented? Such as Sea-bathif'c, Patmarius’s 
Powder, the Lancafhire and the Ormfkirk remedies, 
Dr. Mean’s remedy, the Tonquin remedy, Dz- 
sauLt’s and Dr. James’s mercurial remedies, &c. 
Alfo the Tanjore remedies, celebrated in the Eatt- 
Indies as infallible antidotes, confifling of a powder 
and 
