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treatment another trial. Twenty-six persons who had been bit by 

 a mad dog, were put under his care, viz. nine men, eleven women, 

 and six children : he ordered the decoction of the tops of the 

 flowers of yellow broom to be given to them as soon as possible ; 

 and upon an attentive examination of their tongues, he discov- 

 ered pimples on five men, three children, and all the women. 

 Those who were most wounded were afflicted on the third day ; 

 the others on the fifth, seventh or ninth. One of the women 

 who had been slightly bitten on the leg had no appearance till 

 the twenty-first day. The seven who were free from pimples 

 took the decoction of broom for six weeks, with success. M. 

 Marochetti thinks that the hydrophobia poison, after having 

 remained in the wound, fixes itself under the tongue, in the 

 orifices of the ducts of the submaxillary gland, which are situated 

 on the sides of the frsenum. The inflammation, of which the 

 little pimples are the resull, has a peculiar appearance. The 

 time in which these pimples appear, is generally between the 

 third and ninth day after the bite. If they are not opened be- 

 fore twenty four hours after tkeir appearance, the venom is 

 absorbed and the patient is lost. 



I shall be extremely anxious, to hear of the success of this 

 mode of treatment nearer home : for I must confess I cannot 

 place implicit confidence in the narrative. Medical men, 

 will, however, I trust, soon be able to submit this mode of 

 treatment to the test of experiment, till which time I shall sus- 

 pend my further judgement upon this Russian statement. 



The following account of the progressive stages of hydro- 

 phobia is too interesting to be omitted in this place : with it, 

 therefore, I will close this long chapter : 



Thomas Mason, aged 36, a porter of muscular frame and 

 sanguine temperament, on Thursday evening, 2d of August, 

 1794, after much fatiguing work, complained of pain in his 

 arms and shoulders, but chiefly in his left arm : the pain was of 



