as a Remedy for Hydrophobia. 189 



The plant which Mr. K. made known to the Senate 

 of Pennsylvania, was no other than the Anagallis arven- 

 sis, or common Red- Pimpernel, known, in the United- 

 States, by the names of the Red-Chickweed, Sea- Pink, 

 &c. In Europe, this vegetable has long been used, 

 and at one time maintained a very high reputation, as a 

 remedy for hydrophobia. That it has really, in any in- 

 stance^ prevented, or cured, the dreadful disease for 

 which it has been so strongly recommended, we do not 

 believe. But we are not unwilling to publish the testi- 

 mony of respectable persons in favour of it : and the tes- 

 timony of Mr. Lochman is deserving of some attention. 

 — In the first part of the second volume of this Jour- 

 nal*, we have given a very circumstantial detail of a case 

 of hydrophobia, which terminated in death, notwith- 

 standing the unfortunate person took considerable quan- 

 tities of the Anagallis, very soon after the bite, which 

 produced the disease, was inflicted. We do not mean to 

 say, that it would be an easy matter to adduce many si- 

 milar instances of the failure of the Pimpernel ; partly 

 because it is a fact, that uncommon pains have been 

 taken to uphold the reputation of the plant; and, it need 

 hardly be added, that some persons who have taken the 

 medicine, had been bitten by dogs, not mad : and that 

 dogs really mad do not always produce hydrophobia. 



Editor, 



* Article XXII. p. 122, &c. 

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