THE BOG. 



be treated by himself according to the ordinary course adopted 

 by the medical profession. This might, at a hasty yiew, be 

 deemed an improper tampering with human life on the part of 

 the Sussian surgeon ; but when the admitted hopelessness of 

 all remedies is recollected, the rfiadBr will refrain from ani- 

 madversion. M. Maraschetti pslected, as his own patient, a 

 little girl six years old ; the other condition was duly complied 

 with ; no doubt could exist of the genuine rabies of the dog, 

 which perished shortly afterwards in extreme agony. 



The peasant gave to his fourteen patients a decoction of the 

 tops and blossoms of the broom plant (Flor. XrenistcB lutecB tmc- 

 torice), in the quantities of about a pound and a half daily ; twice 

 a day he examined beneath their tongtles, where, he stated, 

 small knots, containing the virus, would form. Sever-al of 

 these knots did eventually appear, and as soon as they did so, 

 they were carefully opened and cauterised with a red-hot wire, 

 after which the patients were made to rinse their mouths, and 

 gargle with the decoction. The result was, that all the 

 patients, — ^two of whom only, and these the last bitten, did not 

 show the knots, — were dismissed cured, at the expiration of six 

 weeks, during which time they had continued to drink the de- 

 coction. The poor httle girl, who had been treatefl according 

 to the usual medical formula, was attacked with hydro- 

 phobic symptoms on the seventh day, and died within eight 

 hours after the accession of the first paroxysm. M. Maraschetti 

 saw, three years afterwards, the other fourteen persons aU 

 living and in good health. 



The report goes on to say that the worthy Russian doctor 

 had, some time after, another opportunity of testing the value 

 of decoction of broom as a remedy for the terrible affliction. 

 In this case twenty-six persons were bitten by mad dogs, nine 

 were men, eleven women, and six children. The peasant's 

 remedy was administered with the following results. Kve 

 men, all the women, and three of the children exhibited the 

 knots ; those most severely bitten, on the third day ; others on 

 the fifth, seventh, and ninth; and one woman who had been 

 bitten only superficially on the leg, not until the twenty-first 

 day. The remaining seven showed no knots, but all continued 

 to drink the decoction ; and in six weeks all the patients had 

 recovered. 



HIS. 



There can be no doubt that fits in a dog are often mistaken 



