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anxiety, and reft in full affurance of his fafety. He 
may alfo purfue his ufual manner of living, and 
frequent cheerful company; abftaining, however, 
from eyery kind of intemperance, or being hurried 
away by guts of anger, of other {trong  paflions. 
No internal remedies at this period have been infifted 
upon, becaufe none feemed neceflary, nor could 
they, for reafons afligned, add to the fecurity. 
Hydrophabia—its intractable Nature—its Phenomena 
explained—new plan of treatment propofed. 
The fpontaneous hydrophobia, or that difficulty 
and dread of fwallowing liquids, which fometimes 
(though very rarely) occurs in certain fevers, alfo 
in hyfterical and hypocondriacal affeétions,.ought in 
no wife to be confounded with the genuine difeafe 
now under confideration, and which always proceeds 
from the canine poifon alone. , 
Whether the cafes defcribed by Dr. Nucznt and 
other writers, and faid to have been cured by the 
Tonquin remedy, mercury, opium, &c. belonged to 
the former or latter fpecies of difeafe, feems at leaft 
problematical. Certain it is; however, that. in the 
genuine hydrophobia, not thefe remedies only, but 
the whole clafs of boafted fpecifics have fince been 
repeatedly tried in vain. Among various others, 
mercury has been puthed, both internally and exter- 
nally, beyond the bounds of prudence. Mutk, cam- 
phire, and valerian, in immoderate dofes, and opium 
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