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favour. But independent of this, other inftances of 
its beneficial effects, in removing the wild ravings in 
certain fevers, might here be produced.* And it was 
confidered: by CLINEAS, ASCLIPIADES, and ARE- 
- -‘r@us, as an eflential remedy in phrenzy, melancholy, 
and mental derangement. 
In the-memoirs of the Medical Society of Paris, 
vol. vi. is an affeéting inftance of a youth of twelve 
years old, who died of the hydrophobia. The dif- 
trefling fcene near the clofe of the difeafe induced 
the phyfician to try the effects of mufick, by playing 
before him on the guittar. ‘The harmony, even at 
this late. period, we are told, appeafed the fpafms, 
and rendered the pulfe more calm and_ regular. 
3dly. ‘Co fupport ftrength and reftore the energ 
of the brain. ? ay 
To enable the patient to bear up under the un- 
equal.confli&, his diet fhould confift of the moft 
nutritious aliments, chiefly of the folid kind, to which 
may be added frefh eggs, jellies, and bread foaked in 
generous wine. If, from his dread of liquids, neither 
food nor medicine of the fluid kind can be got down, 
they mult be conveyed in. the form of medicated 
baths and enemas; of -which. the body, being in a 
parched abforbent ftate, -will imbibe. more ‘than, is 
generally imagined. . Might not liquids be alfo fafely 
conveyed into the ftomach, with a flexible .tube, as 
in cafes of fufpended animation?. , 
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* See Medical Journal, vols. i. ii, and xi. To 
