4 1 8 Case of Uydropkohia cured in India hj Bleeding. 



Further: it has been usual with nic, on the achni'^sion 

 of a case of Iivdrophobia into the hospital, to send fc;r ivw.c 

 of my medical friends, not only that ihev might see a dis- 

 ease seldom occurring in privale practice, but that I 

 might have the benefit of their sugiristions in regard to 

 the treatment. On the present occasion, the pronij>titude 

 necessary to the practice I had determined to adopt in 

 the first case that occurred, and its astonishing effect in so 

 suddenly and efTeciuallv subduing the disease, deprived me 

 of the advantage I should nosv have derived in establishing 

 the point in question from the concurring testimony of a 

 judicious medial friend. But though not permitted to 

 give direct evidence as to the existence of the disease in the 

 case above detailed, tl)ese centlemen can yet vouch, that 

 they were never called by me to see a case of hydrophobia 

 in which there existed the slightest doubt of the nature of 

 the disease; and it will hardly be contended that I was 

 more liable to mistake it in this case than on any former 

 occasion. 



If these facts and reasonings, combined with the account 

 of the accident ; the time that elapsed before the appearance 

 of the symptoms; — the statement given by the patient of 

 the commencement of the disease : — and by his friends, as 

 to the state in which he appeared before he was brouclu to 

 the hospital ; — the svmptoms under which he laboured 

 when he arrived there ; — should all he deemed insufficient 

 to estabUsh the real nature of the disease, I confess mvself 

 at a loss to conjecture what species of prnofvvould be ne- 

 cessary for that purpose. The only defective point in the 

 evidence appears to be our ignorance whether the dog by 

 which An)ier was bitten was actually mad or not? and 

 though this cannot be proved by direct testimony, yet as 

 it is Icnown that the disease was prevalent among dogs, 

 about that lime, as will be hereafter noticed, it is presumed 

 that this is an objection of very little weight. If therefore 

 any individual, afterduly considering all these circumstances, 

 still continue in doubt as to the nature of the disease, may it 

 not in conclusion be permitted to ask him what it was, if 

 not hydrophobia ? 



That the disease, whatever it might be, was removed, 

 and that almost instantaneously, by bleeding alone, admits, 

 in my mind, of equally little doubt. 



In Mr. Tymon's successful case, the symptoms only 

 gradually disappeared, some of them remaining so late a* 

 the fourth day ; and as opium, mercury, and antimony had 

 been largely used during the whole tiiBe, and the patient's 



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