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the Hydrophobia. 



and expired eight days after the 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 gener- 

 ally discovered little pimples, containing, as beheved, the 

 hydrophobic 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 treat- 

 ment 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 opportuninity of giving this 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 them as soon 

 as possible ; and upon an attentive exammation of their 

 tongues, he discovered pimples on five men, three chil- 

 dren, and all the women. Those who were most wounded 

 Mere 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 wei*e free from pimples 

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

 M. Marochetti thinks that the hydrophobic 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 fraenum. 



