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REMEDY FOR HYDROPHOBIA. 
By Dr. Asmus. 
The history of the remedy is as follows. The Thomer family 
at Stolp possessed the receipt as long as any one could recollect, 
and distributed the medicine. Chemical examination did not 
succeed in discovering its composition. Often as it had been 
used, no case was known where hydrophobia had appeared after 
its employment, not even when the first symptoms had indubita- 
bly begun to manifest themselves. The directions are, that the 
person bitten is to swallow three times as much of the powder 
as can be taken up with the point of a knife, for three days run- 
ning, in the morning. It is to be taken fasting and in warm 
beer, and the patient is to wait till perspiration comes on. No 
particular diet is required, nor scarifying or cauterizing of the 
wound. Many respectable persons pledge themselves to the 
unusual efficacy of this remedy, which was communicated to 
Dr. Asmus by the last Thomer. Its composition is as follows : — 
R Lap. Cancror. ppt ; Pulv. rad. Gent. rubr. aa ^ij-; Bol. 
rubr. §j.; Gummi myrrhse. Jss. M. ft. pulv. subtilissimus. 
Med. Zeit. and Schmiat’s Jahrbucher . 
THE VETERINARIAN, OCTOBER 1, 1843. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
There are those still among us in the profession — and long 
may they remain among us — old enough to remember the rise, 
or rather the institution of the veterinary art on a scientific basis, 
and to these persons the retrospect must prove a highly gratify- 
ing one, to contemplate how our too-long-neglected art has risen 
all at once, as it were, and rapidly progressed to the state in which 
we at the present day have the pleasure to behold it. This 
must be still more gratifying to those few who feel conscious of 
