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kind to be taken in water, increase the quantity if any other copper 

 is used. If symptoms have already appeared, take three drachms 

 of the verdigris with half an ounce of calomel followed by four 

 grains opium. 



The false tongue of the colt is borrowed directly from the black 

 art and forms the ingredient of many an incantation and charm. 

 The burnt jaw bone of a dog, if the jaw bone of the dog that bit, 

 is introduced on the homeopathic principle of " like curing like." 

 The copper, verdigris, calomel, opium, belong to the " heroic treat- 

 ment." In France they put the bitten person in the river Seine 

 with his back to the sea, and many cures are recorded. " A re- 

 turned missionary " advocates a kind of " vaccination " against it, 

 by producing artificial madness by large doses of stramonium. 

 Another recipe by a French family is as follows : 



One handful of rue ; one handful of inner bark of eglantine ; 

 one handful of powdered daisies (whole plant) ; ten cloves of gar- 

 lic ; ten white droppings of hens ; ten white onions. Bruise in a 

 stone mortar, add two ounces of white wine vinegar, bottle tight ; 

 —dose a teaspoonful. The patient is to run about for a while 

 directly after taking it until he induces perspiration. 



Soon after these the " Cherry Valley Cure "came in for its share 

 of public patronage, followed by Dr. Spaulding's wonderful discov- 

 ery (in 1826) of a specific in sentellaria laterifolia. The next 

 humbug of any note originated in Michigan, and w.is, perhaps, a 

 clearer case of fraud than any of the foregoing. The remedy was 

 tincture of castoreum, and the wonderful case of hydrophobia 

 cured proved to have no origin but in the brain of the Doctor. 



A Russian physician, Marochetti by name, pretended to find 

 pustulas under the tongue which were the seat of the disease. 

 His cure consisted in evacuating these, and administering to the 

 patient a decoction of broom tops. This was in 1813 ; and now 

 another Muscovite fraud, known as Dr. Grzymala, has brought 

 himself into notice, by declaring the Xaiithiujn sptjiosum an in- 

 fallible remedy, and preventative of hydrophobia. Like other 

 wonderful discoveries, it has proved a thorough and complete 

 failure. 



The treatment followed by the Chinese when bitten by a dog, 

 is to catch the animal, take some of its hair, mix it with lime, and 



