On the Cure of Hydrophobia in Spain. 273 



as I have found it : at the same time it has often excited my 

 surprise, and engrossed much of my attention. 



To answer the remaining objections of your very candid 

 and agreeable correspondent, and to properly illustrate the 

 remaining parts of my former Essay, would require more 

 time than I can at present spare from my other avocations. 

 Should this merit a place in your very useful and instructive 

 Magazine, you will hear again from, 



Sir, your most humble servant, 



Berwick, JAMES G RAH AM* 



November, 1808. 



XL. On the Means employed in Spain for the Cure of 

 Hydrophobia. 



To Mr. Tilloch. 



AT 



JVXy present object is to call the attention of our medical 



gentlemen to a remedy, which, it is said, has been tried-m 

 Spain with success. This remedy is given by Fisher, in his 

 Picture of Valentia, on the authority of Cavanilles j and as 

 the whole chapter on the subject is curious^ I shall tran- 

 scribe ir : 



" The inhabitants of the district of Hoya de Castalla, in 

 the southern part of the province (of Valentia), possess an 

 excellent remedy against the bite of the viper, composed 

 of the sea holly (Eryngium campesire), viper's bugloss 

 (Echium vulgare), madwort (Alyssvm spinosum), and Cre- 

 tan balm (Melissa cretica*}, in the following manner: 



" The plants are taken when they are beginning to run to 

 seed, and dried in the shade till all their humidity is eva- 

 porated. On this, each is pounded separately, the powder is 

 passed through a hair sieve, mixed in equal parts, and put 

 away in well-corked bottles. It is to be observed, that none 

 of the roots must be employed except those of the sea-holly, 

 which possess very great strength, 



* Under this name the plant is described by some botanists, and* among 

 the rest by Lamarck ; but Cavanilles proves, from the structure of the calyx 

 and other circumstances, that it is properly the Nepeta marifolia. See Anales 

 de Ciencas Naturales, 8vo, Madrid 1808, No. v. p. 192. 



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