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united, to strengthen their effect; or either of them has been 

 coirbined with camphor, oil of amber, inunction with olive oil, or 

 bleeding. 



Musk was also at one time very generally combined with 

 cinnabar, and this combination was regarded as a specific, espe- 

 cially in the East, whence it was introduced into this country. , 



Arsenic has perhaps fairer pretensions than any of these. It 

 has of late years been tried, and particularly, with great skill and 

 in full doses, by Dr. Marcet; but, in every trial it has disappointed 

 our hopes. 



The acetate of lead has very recently been employed, accord- 

 ing to the public journals, and, as it is reported, with success. In 

 a case which partially came under his own observation, Dr. Booth 

 tried that remedy, but it failed. 



Hydrocyanic acid has occasionally been prescribed, but with- 

 out any apparent benefit. In the form of the distilled water of the 

 prunvs lauro-cerasjis, it was not long since made the subject of 

 experiment at Paris by M. Dupuytren, who injected this fluid into 

 the veins of various dogs; and, as it aj^iears, in one instance, 

 into those of a man ; but in every case without eflVcting a cure. 



Chlorine has also been strongly recommended on the authority 

 of Professor Briignatelli, who has adduced facts by which he con- 

 siders the specific power of the chlorine to have been established and 

 verified. 



Some anomalous remedies, incapable of being ranged under 

 any general head of Therapeutics, now remain to be noticed, as 

 they have also acquired considerable celebrity in the cure of Hy- 

 drophobia. 



The first of these is the Ormsldrk-medicine, consisting," ac- 

 cording to Dr. Block, who honoured it with an analysis, of powder 

 of chalk, armenian-bole, alum, and elecampane root. This inert 

 preparation enjoys still high local reputation as a specific in 

 rabies. The second of the anomalous remedies is the alysma 

 plontago, madworf -plantain. For some ages it has been a popular 

 remedy for canine madness in the north of Europe. 



The next remedy to be noticed is also of no mean authority. 

 Whilst on the one hand medical practitioners are abstracting rabid 

 blood from the system as the surest means of curing canine mad- 

 ness, the physicians of Finland have undertaken to accomplish the 

 same effect by introducing blood into the system. A third variety 

 of the process has more recently challenged general attention. 

 M. Majendie has abstracted blood and introduced in lieu an equal 

 quantity of tepid water into the morbid system ; also with a certain 

 degree of success. The plan, however, failed in the hands of Dr. 

 Gaspard, as recently reported in the journals, who was induced to 

 have recourse to it. It also proved inefficacious, as employed 

 in a late case of Hydrophobia, occurring in Birmingham. 



