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7 6 Mr. Home’s Account of the Case of a Man, 
immediately to Mr. Hanbury, a chemist in the neighbourhood. 
There was at that time no swelling on the hand, and the man 
was so incoherent in his language and behaviour, that Mr. 
Hanbury considered him to be in a state of intoxication, and 
gave him a dose of jalap to take off the effects of the liquor, 
and made some slight application to the bites. It appeared on 
enquiry, that the man had been drinking, but that before he 
was bitten, there was nothing unusual in his behaviour. After 
leaving Mr. Hanbury the hand began to swell, which alarmed 
him, and he went to St. George’s hospital. He arrived there 
at three o’clock. The wristband of his shirt had been un- 
loosed, and the swelling had extended half way up the fore- 
arm before his admission. The skin on the back of his hand 
was very tense, and the part very painful. At four o’clock 
the swelling extended to the elbow, and at half past four it 
had reached half way up the arm, and the pain had extended 
to the axilla. At this time Mr. Brodie, who visited him in 
my absence, first saw him ; he found the skin cold ; the man’s 
answers were incoherent: his pulse beat 100 strokes in a 
minute, and he complained of sickness. Forty drops of 
aqua ammoniae purae, and thirty drops of spiritus aetheris 
vitriolic! in an ounce of mistura camphorata, were given to 
him, but did not remain on his stomach. The wounds were 
bathed with the aqua ammoniae purae, and the arm and 
forearm had compresses wetted with camphorated spirits ap- 
plied to them. At five o’clock he took two drams of spiritus 
ammoniae compositus, and 30 drops of aether, in an ounce and 
a half of mistura camphorata, which remained on his stomach. 
At six o’clock his pulse was stronger; at half past seven his 
pulse was very feeble, and 30 drops of aether, and the same 
