treatment of his wound. Washing the part is condemned by 

 many medical men ; they opine that iu the process the virus is 

 diluted and reduced to a state to be the more easily absorbed 

 into the system. Some recommend the cupping-glas". This, 

 says the surgeon, only draws the blood about the wt/and and 

 accelerates its mixture generally with the poison. The knife is 

 objected to, for " m using the knife that which runs from the 

 newly -made incision is apt to overflow into the poisoned locality 

 and so to convey the venom into the circulation by mixing with 

 the fast-flowing blood as it bathes the enlarged wound. 



The simplest and safest mode of treatment is by burning. 

 If it is at hand, take a piece of lunar-caustic and scrape one 

 end of it as small and fine as a writing pencil, with this stab 

 the wound all over. If the caustic is not forthcoming hot-iron 

 will do nearly as well, the best instrument will be a steel fork. 

 It must be used in much the same manner as the caustic, 

 and it should be borne in mind that it is no tenderness to 

 the patient to make the fork " not too hot." The hotter the 

 better for the eradication of the poison and the feelings of the 

 bitten person. It is well known that a bum from a substance 

 heated only to a duU-red inflicts considerably more pain that if 

 brought to a glowing white heat. 



Some years dgo there appeared in a Prussian newspaper, and 

 since then in various European treatises on dog diseases, an 

 account of how fourteen people were simply and speedily cured 

 of this terrible disorder. As to the efficacy of the remedy em- 

 ployed, no guarantee can here be given. The reader must take 

 it as he finds it and form his own conclusions. 



" M. Maraschetti, an operator in the Moscow hospital, while 

 visiting the Ukraine, was applied to by fifteen persons for 

 relief on the same day, they having been bitten by a rabid dog. 

 Whilst the surgeon was preparing such remedies as suggested 

 themselves a deputation of several old men waited upon him 

 with a request that he would permit a peasant who had for 

 some time enjoyed considerable reputation for his success in 

 treating cases of hydrophobia to take these patients under his 

 care. The fame of this peasant and his skill were known to 

 M. Maraschetti, and he acceded to the request of the deputa- 

 tion on certain conditions : in the first place, that he himseM 

 should be present and made oognizant of the mode of treat- 

 ment employed ; secondly, that proof should be given him of 

 the dog that had injured the sufferers being really rabid — and 

 then that he, the surgeon, should select one of the patients to 



