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pepper, had been so infallible a remedy for the bite of a mad dog, that there 

 needed no proofs of its virtue; he himself has used it on dogs, and always with 

 success; and some years since, a mad dog or cat had bitten some children and 

 their mother, at Battle: and mixing the lichen according to Dampier's direc- 

 tion, they all took it, as well as a dog or two that were bitten, and none of 

 them had any bad effects from the bite. 



Christmas 1737, a neighbour's servant going to search whether a dog sus- 

 pected to be mad had been wormed, which dog died mad in 3 or 4 days after, 

 was bitten very much in both his hands; he went to a person, who had 

 great success in using the lichen cinereus tierrestris with pepper for the bite of 

 a mad dog. The man took his medicine every day; about 10 or 11 o'clock he 

 complained of a violent heat, and pain in his head, which Mr. F. suspected was 

 the effect of the bite, and not the medicine; but after he had taken it for such 

 a stated number of days, he grew better, and continued well ever after. 



The man had tied his fingers with shoe-maker's ends, which are often used 

 for a cut ; and they were all very much inflamed, and very sore. Mr. F. made 

 him take them off, and all his plasters, and wash his hands with salt and water, 

 and in a fortnight's time they were quite well. 



Another Case of a Person bitten by a Mad Dog. By David Hartley * M. A. 

 and Mr. Fr. Sandys. N° 448, p. 274. 



About the latter end of Nov. 173'2, Mr. Soame's groom was bitten in the 

 hand by a mad dog, so as to fetch blood. It was not known in the family for 

 3 days. On the 4th day, when Fr. Sandys first saw it, the wound was healed; 

 but it was opened again by him, and kept so for some time, but at last healed 

 sooner than was intended, by the servant's neglect. 



* Dr. David Hartley, better known by his metaphysical than by his medical writings, was bom in 

 1705. His father was a clergyman. After completing his education at Cambridge, where he pre- 

 pared himself for the {wofession of physic, he went to settle at Newark upon Trent, whence he 

 removed to St. Edmund's Buryj he afterwards came to London, and at last fixed himself in Bath. 

 From these frequent changes of abode, it may be inferred that he never got into very extensive 

 practice. 



In 1739 he wrote a pamphlet in favour of Mrs. Stevens's medicine for the stone. His evidence 

 had great weight with parliament, who voted a large sum of money to Mrs. Stevens, the discoverer 

 of this supposed lithontriptic; which, however, did not long uphold the character that had been 

 given of it, and is now gone into disuse. 



As a writer Dr. H.'s principal work is his Observations on Man, published in 1749; a work 

 replete with ingenious, but not always tenable, theories and opinions. The above, and another pap>er 

 on a case of calculus, are the only communications of his which are in the Phil. Trans. He died 

 in 1757. 



