204 HYDROPHOBIA. 



means ought to be used to discover something 

 efficacious ; and it is a duty incumbent on medical 

 gentlemen to exert their best abilities. Little as 

 mine are, they may have the effect of inducing 

 others better qualified to take up the subject. 







I have already observed that the fit of hy- 

 drophobia destroys life in the same manner as 

 sudden fright, and, I may add, drowning. In all 

 cases of death from fright, I am of opinion the 

 same resources should be had recourse to, as for 

 drowned persons. In either case, life may only 

 be suspended for want of the action of the lungs. 



I conceive it is of great importance to people 

 in general, and particularly to such as keep dogs, 

 to be well acquainted with the progress of this 

 disease in these animals, and above all things to 

 know the manner in which they are affected 

 when it first commences, in order to use the 

 necessary precautions to prevent the propagation 

 of it. I will therefore endeavour to describe it as 

 well as I can, from the observations I have been 

 enabled to make on rabid animals. 



At first they are dull and heavy for a few days, 

 shewing no other signs of illness ; eating their 



