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Inthe cures recorded by Dr. Nucenr and others, 
in five or fix cafes of the hydrophobia in an advanced 
ftate, the treatment was different in each, yet there was 
one circumftance common 'to all, and that wasa co- 
pious fweat. Till that appeared, the recovery appears 
to have been very doubtful. Nor is the cafe deferibed 
by Van Hetmonr an exception; the patient being 
plunged into the cold-bath till half dead; the cure 
wasattributed to the fright, but ought rather to have 
been afcribed to the re-action of the fyftem, which, 
being’ aided by a warm bed and fudorific regimen, 
terminated in a falutary fweat. In a fubfequent.ex- 
periment of this kind, equally terrific, no fweat en- 
fued, and the difeafe foon proved fatal. 
Sudorifics indeed feldom produce ‘a copious fweat, 
unlefg their operation can be aflifted by warm diluting 
liquors; Hence perhaps it is, that mufk, valerian, 
opium, and other powerful fudorifics, have fo often 
failed: Given merely as antifpafmodics, without 
proper dilution, they ferve but to flatter hope at the 
- expence of difappointment; let, therefore, the fol- 
lowing method have a fair trial: 
Ina pint of olive oil diffolve half an ounce of 
camphire; let the entire furface of the body be dili- 
gently rubbed with this folution, made warm, con- 
tinuing the friétion before a gentle fire till the whole 
be expended. After which, let the patient be co- 
vered with a flannel.and put into a warm bed, till a 
copious perfpiration be procured. This may be en- 
couraged © 
