274 On the J\Teans employed in Spain 



"With respect to the use of this remedy, it is indispensa- 

 bly necessary that it should be administered immediately after 

 the infliction of the wound. The common dose for a man 

 is one scruple, for a dog a drachm, and the vehicle used for 

 both is wine or water. No particular diet need be observed, 

 only the powder must be taken morning and evening for 

 nine days successively. 



" From time immemorial the inhabitants of this district 

 have made use of this powder as a specific for the bite of 

 vipers with universal success, till at length the celebrated 

 Cavanilles resolved to try its effects against the bite of mad 

 dogs. He lost no time in communicating his ideas to the 

 physicians and medical men in the province, and had the 

 satisfaction to see that his philanthropic views were produc- 

 tive of the happiest results. 



" Thus, for instance, at the farm de los Puchols, in the 

 district of the little town of Sierra den Garceran, a man of 

 sixty named Miguel Puig, and a boy twelve years old named 

 Vito Sorella, were in January 1796 bitten, the one on th^ 

 hand, the other on the cheek, in such a manner that both 

 Jost a considerable quantity of blood. The physician of the 

 place, Don Bias Sales, was not sent for till three days after 

 the accident : he nevertheless resolved to try the powder, 

 which produced effects that surpassed his expectation. 



"la fact, the two patients perfectly recovered of the bites, 

 without manifesting the slightest symptoms of hydrophobia, 

 till the present time ISO'J, and during an interval of six 

 years not the least alteration has been observed in their 

 health. The actual madness of the dog seems to have been 

 fully pr >ved ; for several goats and sheep which were like- 

 wise bitten by him died in 40 days, with all the signs of the 

 most complete hvdrophobia. 



" In 1 "99, at the' village of Tornesa, in the district of the 

 same town, a man of fifty "five named Francisco Baset, his 

 daughter Manue'a Ba»et aged twenty three, and another 

 man named Joaquin Fauro, were bitten, the two former on 

 the hand, and ihe latter on the middle finger. Baset and 

 his Ja • hter i mredatelv applied to Don Thomas Sabater, 

 the surgeon oi their village, who furnished them with pow- 

 ders 



