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VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XI, No. 129.] SEPTEMBER 1838. [New Series, No. 69. 
ANIMAL PATHOLOGY. 
Bl/ M?'. You ATT. 
LECTURE XXII. 
I'/ie preventive Measures continued—Are there Medicineslohich will 
prevent the Development of the Disease! — 'I'he Box—Alisrno 
Blantago — Belladonna — Scutellaria—The Danger of the use of 
Preve?itives.—The Treatment of Rabies—It is a State of exces¬ 
sive nervous Irritation—Can this be allayed?—Depletion con¬ 
sidered—Injection of warm Water into the Veins—The trans¬ 
fusion of Blood—'The injection of certain Fluids into the 
Veins — Medicines—The Box—Alisma Plantago—Belladonna 
— Scutellaria — Guaco — Veratrum Sevadilla—Ticunas Poison 
— Other South American Prophylactics —No instance of Cure in 
the Lecturers Practice — Caution — Encouragement. 
IF the present lecture should be somewhat unsatisfactory 
you will at least have this consolation,—that it will be the last 
with which I shall trouble you on the subject of rabies. The 
knife and the caustic are most valuable preventives, and thou¬ 
sands have been rescued by them from otherwise certain destruc¬ 
tion. In the present state of medical knowledge, with relation 
to this disease, that surgeon would be altogether without excuse 
who hesitated to have recourse to them, or to apply them with 
all the severity which the case seemed to demand ; and he who 
has unfortunately been bitten, should muster all his courage, 
and submit to the application of them. He will not find the ope¬ 
ration half so painful as he feared. 
But, let the knife or the caustic have been freely and skil¬ 
fully applied, can the medical man be sure that every portion of 
the wound with which the virus could by possibility have come 
in contact has been destroyed ? Can the surgeon, partial to the 
knife, be certain that inoculation of the old wound, or the sur¬ 
face of the new one, may not have been effected by the very 
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