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Treatment of 



creases, as well as the other predommant symptoms, 

 until, in a long succession of convulsive struggles, all- 

 powerful death closes the scene. 



The cause of the hydrophobia is utterly unknown ; and 

 its effects hitherto appear to have bafHed every remedy 

 which has been tried for its removal. Copious and re- 

 peated venesection was, a few years ago, announced to 

 the world as a cure for the hydrophobia, and instances 

 were given in order to confirm it : it is true, they came 

 in a questionable shape on account of the distance which 

 they had to travel, being chiefly from the East Indies : 

 however, the method just mentioned, has been tried in 

 this country and found unavailing. 



The alis7na plantago was introduced as a remedy ; 

 but, on repeated trial, has proved ineffectual. 



Another remedy has been introduced. This new 

 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. Mailer, of Vienna, a scientific physician, now 

 resident at Paris. The German physician says, he re- 

 ceived 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 at- 

 tend fifteen persons who had been bit by a mad dog, 

 when some old men requested him to treat the unfortu- 

 nate 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 dXi&w^ fourteen , reserving one to himself, a female of 

 sixteen, who was cauterized and treated in the usual way. 



