160 Facts relating to Hydrophobia. 
eret and undefined the modes of transmitting the poison, the more 
unceasing and vigilant should be our endeavors, to hedge up every 
possible way of access to it. 
In thus adverting to the secondary causes of this disease, in clans 
cing at the wide field on which they may act, and in attempting to set 
up beacons, to warn the unwary to stop short of the point at which 
danger commences, we do not forget that unseen Power, on whose 
will the action of all secondary causes depends, and by whom their 
every action is hastened or suspended at pleasure; nor our obliga- 
tions of gratitude, that in limits so circumscribed, as those which con- 
stitute the boundaries of human knowledge, we may arrive at fixed 
truths, which, by disclosing hidden dangers, pointing out the means 
of avoiding them, and inspiring us with salutary caution, shall ward 
off the fatal dart, that was covertly aimed at our life, prevent, in many 
instances, the exquisite sufferings of our fellow beings, and impose, 
at least, partial restraints on the progress of one of the direst mala- 
dies, before whose energy man is ever forced to bow in death... > 
APPENDIX. we 
* COMMON SALT A REMEDY FOR ANIMAL POISON.” 
“ The Rev. S. G. Fisher, a missionary in South America, says he 
actually and effectually cured all kinds of painful and dangerous ser- 
pents’ bites, after they had been inflicted for many hours, by the ap- 
plication of common salt, moistened with water, and bound upon the 
wound, without any bad effect ever occurring afterwards. I, for my 
part, says he, never had an opportunity to meet. with a mad dog, oF 
any person who was bitten by a mad dog. _ I cannot, therefore, speak 
with experience as to hydrophobia, feck that I have cured serpents” 
bites, always without fail, 1 can declare in truth. He then cites 4 
case from a newspaper, in which, a person was bitten by a dog, which, 
in a few hours, died raving mad. Salt was immediately rubbed, for 
“some time, into the wound, and the person never experienced ih 
inconvenience from the bite. Mr. Fisher was induced to try 
above remedy from a statement made by the late Bishop Loskiel, in 
his history of the missions of the Moravian Church, in North Amer- 
ica, purporting that certain tribes of Indians, had not the least fear. of 
the bite of serpents, relying upon the application of salt as so certaif 
