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which bit him was mad. He had a dry Scab upon 
his Hand : He was, upon applying to Mr. Wilfon % 
vomited with Vin. Benedict. 5ij. 
The next Thing he took was made according to 
the following Prelcription. 
^ Tuipeth. Min . gr. xij. Lap. Contrayerv . 3i. 
Ther. Androm . q. f.M. F t Bol. N° z^fumat unum 
fingulis nottibus bora decubitus fuperbibendojulap . 
feq. Cochl. iv. ^ Aq . Rut . 5vj, Theriac. 5ij. 
Ayr. Taon. c. 5ifi Tintt. Cajtor 3ij M F. Julap . 
Upon taking thefe he fweat very much, and had 
two loofe Stools every Day after them : His Tre- 
mors went off, and flept better. After this he 
went into the Cold-Bath, and continues perfectly 
well. 
But what is remarkable in this Cafe is, that the 
Wound ran a thick digefted Matter after this Me- 
thod, and threw off the Scab like an Efcar ; after 
which it healed of itfelf. 
I will not prelume to philofophize upon thefe 
Cafes, when I am writing to one who is fo much 
better capable of doing it than I can pretend to be. 
Much lefs fliall I pretend to determine whether 
Mercury has thefe Effects from its fpecifick Pro- 
perties, which enables it to prevent or diffolve thofe 
inflammatory Concretions which caufe the Hydro - 
phobia , or from the Evacuations it caufes. Inftead 
ofdifcufling this Point, give me leave to make an 
Obfervation or two upon the Antiquity of this Dik 
eafe, which I the rather choofe to do, becaufe 
Calius Aurelianusy in his Account of it, does not 
feem to build fo much upon the Authority of 
Homer as, in my humble Opinion, he might have 
done. Indeed he quotes a Paffage out of the eighth 
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