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necessary to produce a decided effect upon the disease, 

 I confidently trust that its failure nearly up to the present 

 day, will not be considered as militating against the 

 expectation of success which I think we are now fairly 

 entitled to entertain from its future employment. 



It is at any rate highly encouraging to know, that, in the 

 only three cases in which it has been trusted to as the 

 principal or the sole remedy, it has succeeded to our ut- 

 most wishes. 



The first case is that bv Dr. Burton, in America, which 

 was suggested by Dr. Rush's lectures, and was published 

 about seven years ago in different periodical works. But 

 unfortunately, in consequence of the case not being very 

 accurately related, and its being combined with some fanci- 

 ful theory, it does not appear to have been acknowledged 

 as a clear instance of hydrophobia ; and the benefit which 

 might otherwise have been derived from it was wholly lost 

 to the world. Whether it was actuallv a case of hydro- 

 phobia or not, is not now worth disputing, being in pos- 

 session of Mr. Tymon's case, and of that which has given 

 rise to these already too greatly extended remarks. 



I cannot, however, conclude without saying a few words 

 on the practices which have been principally in use up to 

 this time. Never having seen Dr. Nugent's case, the only 

 instance of well authenticated recovery from hydrophobia 

 with which I was acquainted, previous to these three, is 

 one related by Dr. Shadwell, in the Memoirs of the London 

 Medical Society, in which, on the authority of a Greek 

 Tiianuscript, oil was used both externally and internally. 

 Relying on this example, I gave oil a very fair trial in se- 

 veral of the first cases that fell under my care. But al- 

 though J often got the patient to swallow a considerable 

 quantity of it, and applied it frequentlv by enema, as well 

 as to the skin by almost incessant frictions, it never ap- 

 peared to do the least good. I therefore abandoned it. 



I have subsequently used every mode of treatment that 1 

 have ever heard or seen suggested, with equally little suc- 

 cess, except arsenic, which, though with no better hope, 

 was to have been U)y next trial, had not Mr. Tymon's case 

 fortunately occurred, to point out the practice which has 

 already so well justified the confidence reposed in it. 



On those occasions, besides the full trial given to oil, I 

 used opium to a great extent, in every possible way; mer- 

 cury, musk, camphor, blisters, galvanism, and enemata of 

 laudanum and infusion of tobacco, all to no purpose. No- 

 thing ever alleviated a symptom except the two last, which 



certainly 



