486. Mifcellancous Obfervations on 
able difficulty, in adminiftering cauftic volatile 
Alkali Spirit (neceflarily diluted with a portion 
of fome mild and infipid liquor) in Hydrophobic 
cafes, where the increafed fenfibility of the 
fauces to irritation, and the dread of liquids, 
are fo ftrongly felt. Perhaps it would be’ ad- 
_ vifable, in fuch cafes, to mix the volatile alkali 
with crumbs of bread, and form the mafs into 
boluffes; or rather, to exhibit the cauftic volatile 
falt enveloped in wafer paper. By this latter 
method the pungency of the medicine would be 
concealed, and its form might enable the 
Patient to fwallow it with greater facility. 
- Before I conclude this fubject, I cannot avoid 
hinting at the neceflity of adopting fome gene- 
ral plan, for preventing the communication of 
the canine virus by infected dogs, to animals of 
the fame fpecies. The great increafe* of mad 
dogs, and the confequent ravages of canine 
madnefs among the human fpecies, during the 
courfe of the prefent year, (1794) demand the 
ferious and fpeedy attention of the Legiflature. 
For I conceive Government alone to be capable 
of eftablifhing a plan of prevention on fo ex- 
tended a fcale, as may afford a rational profpect 
of totally eradicating this dreadful malady. Nor 
is 
* No lefs than forty perfons applied to the Infirmary at’ 
Manchefter, in the courfe of a fortnight, whe had .beem 
bitten by dogs undoubtedly mad, : 
