404° © Micellaneous Obfervations on 
ing attention, as they demonftrate an analogy 
between the fymptoms arifing from the poifon 
of fome {nakes, and thofe produced by the bite 
of arabid dog. And furely, in the treatment 
of fo fatal a difeafe as canine madnefs, it is 
proper to adopt any method of cure founded 
upon rational principles. Analogy, under thefe 
circumftances, feems to be our fureft guide. 
The author of this difcovery has detailed 
feveral cafes, feleted from a variety of others, 
which terminated with equal fuccefs. His me- 
thod of cure entirely confifts in the external 
application to the bitten part, and internal exhi- 
bition, of the fpirit of the cauftic volatile alkali.* 
Eau de Luce (which is generally at hand) 
anfwers as well; but he, with reafon, prefers 
the pure cauftic Alkali, when it can be readily 
met with. This remedy has uniformly put a 
fudden ftop to the baneful effects of the poifon 
of the Cobra de Capello. © 
The action of this poifon feems to be chiefly 
confined to the nervous fyftem, and refembles 
that of the canine virus, in exciting convulfive 
fpafms about the throat and fauces,f difficulty’ 
in 
* The “ Agua ammonia pure’ of the Coltege Difpen- 
fatory. 
+ Cafe od. p. 325. 
“In July 1782, a2 woman of the Brahmen caft, who 
Mliv in my neighbourhood at Chumar, was bitten by a 
