224 Cure of Hydropholia. 
ing to the medical course usually held in estimation. A girl of 
six years old was chosen for this purpose. The peasant gave to 
his fourteen patients a strong ‘*decoction” of the ‘* Summit,” and 
‘© Fl, Genista lutee tinctorie,” (about 12lb. daily,) and exa- 
mined twice a day under the tongues, where, as he stated, smal! 
knots, containing the poison of the madness, must form them- 
selves. As soon as these small knots actually appeared, and which 
Mr. Marochetti himself saw, they were opened, and cauterised 
with a red-hot needle; after which the patient gargled with the 
decoction of the ‘* Genista.’”’—The result of this treatment was, 
that all the fourteen (of whom only two, the last bitten, did not 
show these knots) were dismissed cured at the end of six weeks; 
during which time they drank this decoction. But the little girl, 
who had been treated according to the usual methods, was seized 
with hydrophobic symptoms on the seventh day, and was dead in 
eight hours after they first took place. The persons dismissed as 
cured were seen three years afterwards by Mr. Marochetti, and 
they were all sound and well. Five years after this circumstance 
(in 1818) Mr. Marochetti had a new opportunity in Podolia of 
confirming this important discovery. The treatment of twenty- 
six persons, who had there been bitten by a mad dog, was con= 
fided to him; nine were men, eleven women, and six children. He 
gave them at once a decoction of the ‘* Genista,” and a diligent 
examination of their tongues gave the following result : Five men, 
all the women, and three children, had the small knots already. 
mentioned; those bitten worst, on the third day, others on the 
fifth, seventh, and ninth ;. and one woman, who had been bitten 
but very superficially in the leg only, on the twenty-first day. 
The other seven also, who showed no small knots, drank the 
“decoctum Genist@”’ six weeks, and all the patients were cured. 
In consequence of these observations, Mr. Marochetti believes 
that the hydrophobic poison, after remaining a short time in the 
wound, fixes itself for a certain time under the tongue, at the 
openings of the ducts of the ‘‘ glandular sub-maxiller,” which, 
are at each side of the tongue-string, and there forms those small 
knots, in which one may feel with a probe a fluctuating fluid, 
which is that hydrophobic. poison. The usual time of their ap- 
pearance seems to be between the third and ninth day after the 
bite ; and if they are not opened within the first twenty-four, 
hours after their formation, the poison is re-absorbed into the 
body, and the patient is lost beyond the power of cure. For 
this reason, Mr. Marochetti recommends that such patients. 
should be immediately examined under the tongue, which should. 
be continued for six weeks, during which time they should take. 
daily 13lb. of the ‘ decoct. Genist.” (or four times a day the 
powder, one drachm pro dosi). If the knots do not appear in 
the 
