1030 GROUNDLESS TERROR OF THE PUBLIC 



but seldom occurs in the disease as it exists in 

 dogs. The pulse was exceedingly small and 

 feeble, the extremities cold, the complexion livid, 

 and the features contracted, with an expression 

 of extreme anxiety. Under these alarming cir- 

 cumstances, instead of arousing the nearly sus- 

 pended circulation by the warm bath, or the 

 application of dry heat, I vainly endeavoured to 

 administer laudanum, brandy, and ether, which 

 she could not swallow, and expired in convulsions 

 the following day. 



Nor can there be a doubt in the mind of any 

 dispassionate medical practitioner, that in a large 

 majority of cases in which hydrophobia follows 

 the bite of a rabid animal, it is brought on by 

 exposure to cold, fatigue, and the depressing 

 passions. There are also many cases on record 

 of its being produced in persons of timid and 

 feeble constitutions by violent emotions of terror, 

 without the bite of a rabid animal, or any local 

 injury. The needless alarm of the community, 

 arising chiefly from ignorance in regard to the 

 cause of hydrophobia, is a thousand times worse 

 than the disease, which must be treated like teta- 

 nus ; for the proximate cause is the same in both. 

 And I venture to predict, that by an early employ- 

 ment of the means already suggested, they will 

 both be found curable maladies. 



In a small Treatise addressed to the French 

 Academy of Sciences in 1823, by M. Bouisson, 

 the author states, that nine days after attending 



