398 Mr. Murray on Chlorine and Chlorate of Poiassa. 



small portion of oxide of manganese and muriatic acid in a 

 cup floating in a bason of warm water, will soon sufficiently 

 impreo-nate a room of small dimensions with the gas, and the 

 due quantity may be determined by the feelings of the patient. 

 Mr.Murray, in protesting against die hopelessness which seems 

 to invade the minds of the medical profession in general, goes 

 on to suggest the expediency of making trial of the prepara- 

 tions of the above-mentioned gas in that most dreadful of dis- 

 eases, rabies canina, or hydrophobia. Brugnatelli of Pavia 

 has recorded the cure of four persons in the hospital there, bitten 

 by a rabid wolf. Aqueous solution of chlorine was administered 

 in these cases. In Troillet's cases, however, solution of chlo- 

 rine was of no use. In connexion with the history of hydro- 

 phobia, he gives the case of a woman who was bitten whilst in 

 a state of pregnancy, but was not affected till several weeks after 

 her delivery, when hydrophobic symptoms manifested them- 

 selves, and she very soon fell a victim to the malignant virus. 

 A sow in farrow, two horses, and a dog, were bitten at the 

 same time : the horses and dog died not long after, whilst the 

 sow in farrow continued free from the disease till some weeks 

 after she had farrowed, when the poison became fatally active. 

 The offspring in both these cases were unaffected. The treat- 

 ment Mr.M. would deem advisable in a case where hydrophobic 

 phaenomena were already manifested, would consist in admini- 

 stering the solution of chlorine or chlorate of potassa inter - 

 nallij, and galvanism and the nitro-muriatic bath externally, 

 besides exposing the patient to an atmosphere weakly charged 

 with chlorine : this latter remedy apjoeared to have some effect 

 in allaying the hydrophobic symptoms in a dog, although it 

 was not resorted to till four days after the first attack of the 

 disease. The animal subsequently died ; but its death, Mr. M. 

 thinks, might be owing rather to obstruction in the alimentary 

 canal, than to the effects of the rabies canina, the obstruction 

 being a consequence of the heterogeneous substances which 

 the animal had swallowed in the incipient stage of the disease. 

 A letter from a medical gentleman of Derby accompanied 

 Mr. M.'s paper, detailing sevei'al cases of the great efficacy of 

 chlorate of potassa in uterine haemorrhage and in haemopty- 

 sis ; the dose was about eight grains, and repeated every 

 three or four hours, dissolved in water : but it must be ob- 

 served that the treatment of these haemorrhages was not con- 

 fined to this remedy alone. 



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