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treme drynefs of the throat, and many formidable 
fymptoms, but did not prevent the fatal dread of 
water. Practitioners who thus attempt to drive out 
one poifon by dint of another, ought to reflec that 
an overdofe of the remedy may prove as deftructive 
as the difeafe; and that the latent enemy is not to be 
driven out, vi et armis, by internal remedies, how- 
ever potent. The whole:clafs of boafted antidotes 
have had their dav—many have already funk into 
oblivion, and the reft feem ‘* haftening faft to the 
‘¢ tomb of all the Capulets!””?) The unmerited repute 
which they have obtained admit of a ready folution, 
as it is much eafier to propagate a hundred errors 
than to demontftrate a fingle truth. 
The late Mr. Hunrer relates a remarkable cir- 
cumftance, of twenty-one perfons being bitten by a 
dog that proved to be mad: nothing was done for 
any of them, and only one was taken ill of the dif 
eafe, Had they all taken fome noted antidote, its 
fame would have been {pread abroad of having com- 
pletely cured twenty out of twenty-one. | 
How often does it happen, that people are bitten 
by dogs ill of other difeafes, not the leaft tending to 
madnefs? The animals are killed on a groundlefs 
fufpicion; the parties poft away to the fea, or have 
recourfe to fome pretended fpecific, equally ineffica- 
cious; they remain well, and the remedy acquires 
the credit of having cured a diftemper that never 
exifted, or of preventing one that could never have 
occurred 
