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assembly at Calcutta, July 2nd, 183 1, and published. I take 

 the liberty to introduce an extract : — 



" Dr. Honigberger's object, in the treatment of hydro* 

 phobia, is to keep up a copious suppuration from the part 

 bitten by the rabid animal, which he accomplishes, at first, 

 by applying the cctual cautery, and afterwards by using 

 stimulants to the wound. He also administers a compound 

 of mercury and extract of tobacco, in pills, until they pro- 

 duce a flow of urine ; and at the same time he recommends 

 tincture of cantharides in an emulsion of bitter-almond to be 

 repeatedly given, until a slight degree of dysuria is excited. 

 Various other remedies and local applications are also 

 spoken of as useful in hydrophobia. It does not appear 

 that any other person has yet made trial of some of the 

 remedies proposed by Dr. Honigberger," 



This was ray treatment twenty years ago, when I prac- 

 tised Allceopathy ; but, since that period, I have made many 

 interesting trials and experiments. 



A short time after the publication of the above-men- 

 tioned method, I had a case where I tried, as a preventive, 

 the endermic application, i. e,, I applied on the somewhat en- 

 larged bitten part some extract of nux vomica, upon which 

 the patient passed an unquiet night, dreaming of dogs 

 running after him. I thought it a bad omen, and regarded 

 it as a symptom of the approach of hydrophobia ; and I did 

 not rely on the local application only, but gave him also, 

 internally, a pill of the same remedy ( extractum nuc. 

 vomic. ) one grain, mixed with three grains of carbonate of 

 soda ; to which he considered he owed his recovery, as it 

 caused an evacuation. 



I introduced to our distinguished guests. Col. Wade and 

 Dr. Murray, an Akalee or Nahung, whose nose, ears and 

 hands had been cut off by order of Runjeet Sing ( he had 

 even deserved the gallows ), and whose nose had been so 

 well restored in the mountains that we were all surprised, 

 and confessed it could not have been better done in Europe. 

 As we know, from history, this operation was even in the 

 remotest antiquity, practised by the Hindoos ; and they 



