298 DISEASES CLASS III. 1. 1. 15. 



In other respects, as it is produced by the saliva of an enraged 

 animal instilled into a wound, it would seem analogous to 

 the poison of venomous animals. And from the manner of its ac- 

 cess so long after the bite, and of its termination in a short time, 

 it would seem to resemble the progress of contagious fevers. 

 See Sect. XXII. 3. 3. 



If the patient was bitten in a part, which could be totally cut 

 away, as a finger, even after the hydrophobia appears, it is pro- 

 able it might cure it; as I suspect the cause still remains in the 

 wounded tendon, and not in a diffused infection tainting the blood. 

 Hence there are generally uneasy sensations, as cold or numbness, 

 in the old cicatrix, before the hydrophobia commences. See a 

 case in Medical Communications, Vol. II. p. 190. 



If the diseased tendon could be inflamed without cutting it out, 

 as by cupping, or caustic, or blister after cupping, and this in the 

 old wound long since healed, after the hydrophobia commences, 

 it might prevent the spasms about the throat. As inflaming the 

 teeth by the use of mercury is of use in some kinds of hemicrania. 

 Put spirit of turpentine on the wound, wash it well. See Class 

 I. 3. 1. 11. IV. 1. 2. 7. 



M. M. Wine, musk, oil, internally. Opium, mercurial oint- 

 ment, used extensively. Mercurial fumigation. Turpeth mi- 

 neral. To salivate the patient as soon as possible. Exsection or 

 a caustic on the scar, even after the appearance of hydrophobia. 

 Put a tight bandage on the limb above the scar of the old wound 

 to benumb the pained tendon, however long the wound may 

 have been healed. Could a hollow catheter of elastic gum, ca- 

 outchouc, be introduced into the oesophagus by the mouth or 

 nostril, and liquid nourishment be thus conveyed into the stomach? 

 See Desault's Journal, Case I. where in an ulcer of the mouth, such 

 a catheter was introduced by the nostril, and kept in the oeso- 

 phagus for a month, by which means the patient was nourished- 

 and preserved. 



It is recommended by Dr. Bardsley to give oil internally by a 

 similar method contrived by Mr. John Hunter. He covered a 

 probang with the skin of a small eel, or the gut of a lamb or cat. 

 It was tied up at one end above and below the sponge, and a slit 

 made above the upper ligature; to the other end of the eel skin 

 or gut was fixed a bladder and pipe. The probang thus covered 

 was introduced into the stomach, and the liquid food or medicine 

 was put into the bladder and squeezed down through the eel-skin. 

 Mem. of Society at Manchester. See Class I. 2. 3. 25. 



Dr. Bardsley has endeavoured to prove, that dogs never ex- 

 perience the hydrophobia, or canine madness, without having 

 been previously bitten or infected; and secondly, that the clis- 



