414 
its scale, like that of the Temple church 
organ. Ambrose Warren, in the volume 
above quoted, says, that prior to 16838, a 
Mr. Piayer had made several harpsi- 
chords and spinnets, with some of the 
short keys divided, to express some of 
the interinediate notes; and at page 12 
he nrentions, regulating stops in an organ 
HNaviny been used by some persons, and 
shifting frets on the lute, viol, &e. by 
others, for increasing the number of 
notes above thirteen in the octave, in- 
cluding the repetition of the key-note. 
Westminster. Joun Farey, 
ene ene 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, ‘ 
FENHE extraordinary increase within 
these few years in the number of 
rabid animals, and the many fatal acci- 
dents occasioned by their bite, must ren- 
der the discovery of a specific for one of 
the most horrible diseases that can aillict 
humanity, an object of great and general 
interest. For this reason, in compliance 
with the suggestion of your correspondent 
A. (Number 196, p. 154) I transmit you 
the passage to which he alludes in Fis- 
cher’s animated Picture of Valencia, in 
which the author gives some account ofa 
remedy that has been administered with 
signal success in Spain. The cases waich 
are there detailed, bear all the marks of 
authenticity; and appear suthciently 
strong to induce our medical practi- 
tioners to ascertain by actual experiment, 
the result of this mode of treatment. 
This is the more desirable, because, if 
the eficacy of the remedy were estab- 
lished, the patient would be spared the 
torment inevitably attending excision, 
the application of CAUSLCS, and all the 
other painful operations at present re- 
sorted to. 8. 
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. 
« The jnhahitants of the district of Hoya 
de Castalla, in the southern part of the 
‘province, possess an excellent remedy 
against the bite of the viper, composed 
of the sea-holly (eryngium cumpestre, ) 
viper’s bugloss (echium vulgare, ) mad- 
wort (alyssum spriosum,) and Cretan 
balm (melissa Cretica, )* in the following 
manner:—Vhe pants are taken when 
they are beginning to run to seed, and 
died in the shade ill all their huinidity is 
~ WUnuer this name the plant is céscrived 
by some botanists, and, among the rest, by 
Lamarck 5 but Cavanilles proves, from the 
¢tructure of the calyx, and other circumstan- 
ces, that it is properly the xepeta marifolia. 
see Anale. de Cuncuas Nasurales, &yo. 
? 
Spanish Remedy for Hydvophobia. 
{June}, 
evaporated. On this, each is separately 
pounded: the powder is passed through 
a hair-sieve, mixed in equal parts, and 
put away in well-corked bottles. . It is 
to be observed, that none of the roots 
must be employed except those of the 
sea-holly, which possess very great~ 
strength. 
“‘ With respect to the use of thisreme-_. 
dy, it is indispensably necessary that it 
should be administered immediately after 
the infliction of the wound, The com- 
mon dose for a man is one seruple ; for a 
dog a drachm: the vehicle used for 
both, is wine or water: No particular 
diet need be observed: only the powder 
must be taken morning and evening for 
nine days successively. 
« From. time immemorial, the inhabi- 
tants of the above-mentioned district 
have made use of this powder as a spe- 
cific for the. bite of vipers, with universal 
success; till at length the celebrated 
Cavanilles resolved to try its effects 
against the bites of mad dogs. He lost 
no time in communicating his ideas to 
the physicians and medical men in the 
province, and had the satisfaction to see 
that his. philanthropic views were pro 
ductive of the happiest results. 
““Thus, for instance, at the farm de los 
Puchols, in the district of the little town 
of Sierra den Garceran, a man of sixty, 
named Miguel Puly, and a boy twelve 
years old, named Vito Sorello, were, in 
January 1796, bitten, the one on the 
hand, the other on the cheek, in such a 
manner that both lost a considerable 
quantity of blood. The physician of the 
place, don Blas Sales, was not sent for 
till three days after the accident: he 
nevertheless resolved to try the powder, 
which produced effects that surpassed 
his expectation. 
“In fact, the two patients perfectly res 
covered of the bites, without manifesting 
the slightest symptoms of hydrophobia 
till the present time, (1802 ;) and during 
‘an interval of six years, not the least al- 
teration has been observed in_ their 
health. The actual madness of the dog 
seems to have been fully proved; for 
several goatsand sheep which were like- 
wise bitten by bim, died in forty days, 
with all the signs of the most complete 
hydrophobia, ; 
“In 1799, at the village of Tornesa, in 
the district of the same town, a man of 
fifty-five, named Francis Baset, his 
daughter Manuela Baset, aged twenty- 
three, and another man named Joaquin 
Hauro, were bitten; the two former “i 
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