lOi THE HYDROPHOBIA. 



son, surgeon, Skipton; and among other medicines the pulver- 

 ized alisma plantago was repeatedly given him on bread and 

 butter, to the amount of five drams at a dose ; but all to no pur- 

 pose. On the ninth he died, leaving a widow and three small 

 children to deplore his melancholy and premature death. Leeds 

 Mercury, Oct. 31, 1818.1 



Another remedy has been introduced. This ne\v remedy 

 comes from a distance ; but let us not reject it merely on that 

 score. The account has appeared in several medical works, 

 and was first published, it seems, by Dr. Muller^ of Vienna, a 

 scientific physician, now resident at Paris. The German phy- 

 sician says, he received the particulars from M. Marochetti, a 

 Russian surgeon, who informed him, that, during his residence 

 in the Ukraine, in the year 1813, he was called on to attend 

 Jifteen persons who had been bitten by a mad dog, when some 

 old men requested him to treat the unfortunate people according 

 to the directions of a neighbouring peasant, who had acquired 

 a great reputation for curing the hydrophobia. M. Marochetti 

 allowed the peasant to attend fourteen, reserving one to himself, 

 a female of sixteen, who was cauterized and treated in the usual 

 way, and expired eight days after ike attack ! The peasant gave 

 to the fourteen persons placed under his care a strong decoction 

 of the tops of the flowers of the yellow broom (a pound and a 

 half a day). He examined twice a day the under part of the 

 tongue, where he had generally discovered little pimples, con- 

 taining, as believed, the hydrophobia poison : these pimples 

 really followed, and were observed by Marochetti himself. As 

 they formed, the peasant opened them, and cauterized the parts 

 with a red hot needle ; after which, the patients gargled with the 

 decoction mentioned above. The result of this treatment was, 

 that the fourteen patients were cured, having only drank the 

 decoction for six weeks. Marochetti then states, that, five 

 years afterwards, he himself had an opportunity of giving this 



