The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-05 00:00:00

HYDROPHOBIA.

MANSION iiOUsE.--The Lotto MAYOR staled
yesterday that he continued to receive information of persons
having been bitten by dogs, anti of great mischiefoccasioned by
those animals being allowed to run at large in the Metropolis.—
lie said, that a number of benevolent persons bad forwarded to
him specifics for the cure of the dreadful malady ; but Sir U.
11. Bose had just sent him a statement which he had translated
from the Berlin Gazette, and wished to be made public, that
the mode of cure recommended in it might be tried. The state-
ment was made by a Mr. illarochette, an operator in the f I ospital
at Moscow. Ile says, that in 11113 he was in the Ukraine
when fifteen persons applied to hint for cure, all having been
bitten by a mad dog ; whilst he was preparing the remedies, a
deputation of several old men made its appearance to re-
, quest him to allow a peasant to treat them, a man who had fur
some years past enjoyed a great reputation .for prevention of
hydrophobia, and of whose success Dr. Marochette had already
heard much. Ile consented to their request under these condi-
tions—First' That he (Marochette) should be present at eve' y
thing done by the peasant. Secondly, In order that he might
be fully convinced thatthe dog was mad, he (Mr. 31arochette)
should select one of the patients, who should only be treated
according to the medical course usualy held in estimation. A
girl, six years old, was chosen for this purpose. The peasant
• gave to Ins fourteen patients a strong decoction of the summit
and ft. Oenistia luta) tinetorite, about a pound and a half daily,
and examined twice a day under the tongues, where, as he
stated, small knots, containing the poison of the madness,
must form themselves. As soon as these small knots ac-
tually appeared which Mr. Marochette himself saw, they
were opened anti cauterised with a red hot needle, after which
the patient gargled with the decoction of the " Ossitista.". The
result of this treatment was that all of them (of whom oedv
two, the last bitten, did not shew these knots) were dismissed
cured at the end of six. weeks, timing which time they drank
this decoction. But the little girl, who had been treated accord-
ing to the usual methods, was seized with hydrophobie symp-
toms on the seventh day, and was dead in eight hours after they
first took place. The persons dismissed were seen theta ears
afterwards by 31r.. Marochette, and they were,al,l 11.0a0..4„ and
well. Five years after this circumstance (in 113111) Mr. rusty.
chette had a new opportunity in Podalia of confirming dill im-
portant discovery. The treatment of twenty-six persons who
had been bitten by a mad dog was confided to him ; nine were
men, eleven women, and six children. lie gave them at one.a decotion of the " (knight," and a diligent examination of
their tongues gave the following result i five men, all the wo-
men, and three children, had the small knots already men-
tioned ; those most bitten on the third day, others on the fifth,
seventh, tmcl ninth, and one woman who had been bitten but
very superficially in the leg only on the twenty-first day. 'The
other seven also, who shelved no small knots drank the tk-
coetion " Oenesta" six weeks, and all the patients recovered..
In consequence of these observations, .34. Marochette be-
lieves that the hydrophobic poison, atter remaining a short
time in the wound, fixes itself for a time under the tongue, at
the opening of the ducts of the " ghindul. submaxiliar, which
are at each side of the tongue string, and there forms those
small knots in which may be: felt with a probe a fluctuatity
fluid, which is the hydrophobic fluid. The usual time of
their appearance seems to be within the third and ninth day
after the bite ; anti if they ;are not opened within the first
twenty-four hours after theirap pfie)tarnitajkluti,oriarbeofi
Ili
vet
d*lit
ipoisonenhtshould
1 diwseilarlrigabi bee -
sorbed into the body, and the patient is lost beyond power of
cure. For this reason Mr. Marochette recommends that such.
patients should be examined wider the tongue immediately,
which should he continued fin six weeks, daring which time they
should take daily one pound and a half of the decoction Omega!
or four times, a day the powder, one dreamt " Pra d"*e.-" If
the knots do not appear in this time no madness is to •eletr,el:irtcl,-1
ahaseslsrali:intircuctotel
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assiduously
wialusi
totiarsiieeotii:etcataagittli:teioil:vreei:zh.'
leantite;ba
Qtliton4toileddi,iderecocpiaentoticolnll.sx,
this
opuiol;
II
to a number of eminent physicians 04
v)ftogniosi on .ft matter
they could of course pronounee no
~
.had ' concurred in
of which they had no other, know' r-qP
rat
ex-
pressing their persinteion that this the present lamentable in_
found efficacious ; but at all events M
Meant! malady,. Made
of arresting the •
efficiency Cl' our meow duty wool attention to this prop,iged
him feel it to he an went ,t• hobstion, am it wail simple,
he did Witha.s
treatment, which, 1 howus.
and at soy rite wholly rs•- - • ' -V ".....

-DOGS.

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ditrecetni:nitthpeoloirtim ers which have been generally imitied tom the
Otlices—that alt dogs let loose in the meet
should he cloaely muzzled. 'the consegOcnce of inattention to alio order in, that children in many families are obliged w
bu
confined' tl %USE CTltifely within tlpara, their parents dreesSitirg
the danger of their walking the pOilie rwicli.

We, were plealted to observe yesterday. itt
pattlinic through the street*. that the `.directions of the Lo.a tr
MAXOn, relative to dogs;_, has been generally observt,t Must
or. the dogs were IntlZZled, an observance , which common hi
Inanity ought to prompt the ownclis ot, Pal AO t" Prv""
'Aeon of the year.