SCUTELLARIA 3H 



no instance did hydrophobia appear. In the doctor's 

 letter to me of the 13th of August, 1819, he says: 'A 

 Mr. Williams, of Heath, in this county, had, in the 

 autumn of 1813, a valuable cow and an ox bitten at the 

 same time by a mad fox. He applied to us for the Scu- 

 tellaria. We had only enough for one animal. He 

 prized his cow more highly than his ox, and was very 

 anxious to save her. He therefore gave the whole of 

 the scullcap to his cow, and suffered the ox to take his 

 chance without any medicament. The ox died, exhib- 

 iting the aggravated symptoms of hydrophobia, while 

 the cow had no indisposition.' " 



Statements by recognized authorities, in the press 

 and in magazines, finally became so abundant in sup- 

 port of scutellaria in hydrophobia as, if the disease was 

 authentic, to seem incontrovertible. Two detailed re- 

 ports given by Thacher, by Dr. Fisk, of Massachusetts, 

 and by Dr. Robson, of New York, are too detailed for 

 even summarizing. 



FAILURES. As recorded by Spalding, but one man 

 reports a failure with the scutellaria antidote. He says : 



"A child bitten was faithfully dosed with the infusion 

 twice daily, but died on the 30th day." (New York 

 Medical Repository, New Series, Vol. 1, p. 175). 



Reported by Lewis Bartlett to Dr. Thacher, (Thacher 

 on Hydrophobia, 1812), "Nine hogs were bitten by a 

 mad dog, treated with Scutellaria, six died." 



These are the only cases of failure reported by Dr. 

 Spalding, out of more than 850 persons, and a large 

 number of animals, treated with scutellaria. Dr. Spald- 

 ing sums up the whole subject as follows: 



"We have then the foregoing testimony that the 

 Scutellaria has been used by more than eight hundred 



