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dogs, have tried in succession a great many preparations to remedy 
the results of these terrible accidents. It appears that the Cetonza, 
dried and reduced to powder, has produced on many occasions good 
effects. This is the recipe which an inhabitant of Saratow pub- 
lished in a Russian journal—adding, that he had employed it for 
thirty years, that not one of the patients treated by him had died, 
and that his remedy could be employed with success in all the 
phases of the disease. In spring they search at the bottom of the 
nests of the wood ant for certain white larve, which they carefully 
preserve in a pot, together with the earth in which they were 
found, till the moment of their metamorphosis, which takes place 
in the month of May. The insect, which is the common rose 
beetle, is killed, dried, and kept in pots hermetically sealed, so 
that it may preserve the strong odour which it exhales in spring, 
which seems to be a necessary condition of the remedy proving 
efficient. When a case of hydrophobia presents itself, they reduce 
to powder some of these, and spread this powder on a piece of 
bread-and-butter, and make the patient eat it. Every part of the 
insect must enter into the composition of this powder, which, for 
this reason, cannot be very fine. During the whole time a patient 
is under treatment he must avoid drinking as much as possible, or, 
if his thirst is very great, he must only drink a little pure water ; 
but he may eat. Generally, this remedy produces sleep, which 
may last for thirty-six hours, and which must not be disturbed. 
When the patient wakes, he is, they say, cured. The bite must be 
treated locally with the usual surgical appliances. 
As to the dose of the remedy, that depends on the age of the 
patient and the development of the disease. They give, to an 
adult, immediately after the bite, from two to three beetles; to a 
child, from one to two; to a person in whom the disease has already 
declared itself, from four to five. Given to a person in good 
health the remedy, however, would not be the least dangerous. 
In cases in which the symptoms of hydrophobia show themselves 
some days after the employment of the remedy, they recommence 
the treatment. They have also tried to prepare this remedy with 
insects collected, not in their larva but in the imago state, by 
catching them on flowers, and it seems that these attempts have 
succeeded. According to M. Bogdanoff, in many governorships 
