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Analysis of Continental Journals. 
By W. Ernes, M.B.C.V.S., London. 
Le Journal de la Ferme publishes a case of cure of hydro¬ 
phobia by Dr. Buisson, obtained on himself by means of 
vapour baths at a high temperature. Dr. Buisson was called 
to attend a female patient in the last stage of hydrophobia. 
After having bled her, he wiped his hands with a handkerchief 
on which there w'as some of the ^Yomarl^s saliva. He had a 
small wound on the index finger of the left hand, and on 
noticing this he became aware of his imprudence and danger, 
but confident in his recent discovery he contented himself by 
washing ic with cold water. 
Thinking, M. Buisson says, that the malady would not 
declare itself before the fortieth day, and having that day 
many patients to see, I put off from day to day to use my 
remedy, viz., vapour baths. On the ninth day, being in my 
study, I felt all of a sudden a pain in my throat, and a more 
severe one in my eyes. My body seemed so light that I felt 
as if I could jump to a great height, and that if I leaped out 
of the window I could have suspended myself in mid-air. 
My hair was so sensitive that without seeing it I could count 
every one of them. There was a constant flow of saliva from 
my mouth ; the contact of the air caused me great suffering. 
I avoided looking at bright or polished things. I had a 
great inclination to run and bite; not human beings, but 
animals and everything about me. I could only drink with 
difficulty. I remarked that the sight of water was more 
painful to me than the pain in my throat. I believe that by 
shutting his eyes the hydrophobic patientw'ould always be able 
to drink. The paroxysm came on about every five minutes; 
I felt it first in the index finger, from which it extended along 
the course of the nerves to the shoulder. 
Thinking that my remedy was only preventive, I took a 
vapour bath, not with view of a cure, but with the intention 
of suffocating myself. But when the bath had reached fifty- 
two centigrades, all the symptoms disappeared as if by en¬ 
chantment, and 1 have not felt anything since. I have since 
treated by the same means more than forty persons bitten 
by rabid animals, and all have been preserved from the con¬ 
sequences. 
When a person has been bitten by a mad dog, he ought 
to take seven vapour baths, one ycr diem a la Itusse, from 
sixty-three to sixty-seven centigrades, that is, the preservative 
