138 DISEASES CLASS 1. 3. 1. 11. 



1 1 . Hydrophobia. Dread of water occasioned by the bite of a 

 mad-dog, is a violent inversion of the motions of the oesopha- 

 gus on the contact or even approach of water or other fluids. 

 The pharynx seems to have acquired the sensibility of the larynx 

 in this disease, and is as impatient to reject any fluid which gets 

 into it. Is not the cardia ventriculi the seat of this disease? As 

 in cardialgia the pain is often felt ia the pharynx, when the acid 

 material stimulates the other end of the canal, which terminates 

 in the stomach. As this fatal disease resembles tetanus, or lock- 

 ed jaw, in its tendency to convulsion from a distant wound, and 

 affects some other parts by association, it is treated of in Class 

 III. 1.1. 15. and IV. 8.1. 7. 



M. M. I should recommend the trial of one grain and a half 

 of corrosive sublimate of mercury, hydrargyrus muriatus, dis- 

 solved in half an ounce of rectified spirit of wine, to be given 

 undulated, if possible, as described in Class II. 1. 5. 1. and to he 

 repeated according to its operation, 



