Observations on Hydrophobia. 1 17 



with the acetate of morphine administered in this mode may be expected to te 

 fully produced in that time), I would repeat the injection if necessarj', and 

 continue the repetition at like intervals until a decided sedative impression 

 should have been produced. 



" Care should be taken to warm the fluid and the syringe to about blood! 

 heat, in order to prevent any repulsive or chilling sensation being imparted 

 to the patient by tlie ditTerence of temperature. The syringe should termi- 

 nate in a small bent silver tube, which should be inserted for about half au 

 inch within the orifice, and in the direction of the returning blood. 



" The patient should be hoodwinked by tying a pocket handkerchief over 

 his eyes, and reclined on the bed, his legs being tied together. The arm op- 

 posite to that which is to be operated upon should be held fast by an at- 

 tendant. The arm which is chosen for the operation should also be held 

 firmly while the injection is taking place. 



" These precautions are requisite, as in some cases the sight of the sy- 

 ringe, the fluid to be injected, or the blood issuing from the vein on opening it, 

 would excite violent spasms." — Pp. 11-16. 



It will be seen from the above quotation, that Dr. Booth's plan 

 of treatment is a mere suggestion, but we think it a very plausible 

 one, and trust that at all events its merits or its demerits will be 

 ascertained by fair and candid experiment. 



There is one part of his subject to which we wish our author 

 had paid more attention, namely, the preventive treatment to be 

 resorted to previous to the accession of symptoms. Has a course of 

 mercury ever had a fair trial in the period intervening between the 

 bite and the accession of the disease? Has copious bleeding ever 

 been used in that period ? Might not a person be plausibly kept 

 under the influence of narcotics and anti-spasmodics previous to 

 the occurrence of symptoms ? and might it not be expected that 

 they would be modified or mitigated by such or some similar 

 means ? 



II. The History of Ancient and Modern Wines. 4to. pp. 407. Lon- 

 don. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824. 



Wf. believe the author of this expensive quarto to be Dr. Hen- 

 derson, the physician, but as he has thought fit to omit his name 

 and attributes in the title-page, we only guess at them from the 

 signature to the preface. Be this as it may, such, a work was 

 much wanted, and although the Doctor is, upon the whole, more 

 learned than useful, and abounds more in " wise saws and modern 

 instances," than in the minutiae of practical details, he has filled 

 up with tolerable materials a gap that has long existed in the 

 history of one of our greatest luxuries ; although too, much remains 

 for the completion of the subject, his labours will at all events 

 furnish a useful peg upon which some more accurate and scientific 

 labourer in the vineyard may suspend his future remarks. 



In an introductory chapter our author introduces some general 

 observations respecting the principles of fermentation, and the 

 constituents of wine in general, adverting to those well known 



