490 ON VENOMOUS BITES. 



been known to attend hyfteric cafes, and pain- 

 ful wounds in the tendons, and to precede the . 

 locked jaw. 



In the bite of a mad-dog, for in that animal 

 the contagious rabid poifon feems to originate, ' 

 or of any animal which being bitten acquires 

 the power of propagating the poifon, the only 

 remedies iniituled to any rational dependance 

 are inflant exfeclion, or cutting away the bit- 

 ten part, uRion or burning, and mercurials. 

 The Ormfkirk Medicine, Dr. Mead's remedy, 

 bathing in (lilt water, and many other pretend- 

 ed fpecihcs, have all failed ; and as I fliould 

 conceive, never had any real title to do otfier- 

 wife. That Dr. Mead fhould recommend 

 liver-wort and pepper, as articles of fufficient 

 efficac/ to be a fpecific cure in a difeafe of 

 fuch dreadful and potent malignancy, would be 

 • truly adonifhing, did we not know that the 

 grearefl men are fometimes guilty of the great- 

 ed abfurdiiies. Befides burning the v/ound, 

 where pra61icable, a circle ought to be drawn 

 round it with a cautery. Rub the part with 

 flrono- mercurial ointm.ent and turpentine as 

 often as poihble, -without raifing a lalivation. 

 Turbith mineral has fucceeded in the cure of 

 do"-s, of courfc it oupht to be tried with horfes, 

 and alfo with human patients. Barllet adviles 

 lurbith and camphor equal quantities (fee Far- 

 cy.) Before, or after the Turbith courfe, the 



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