The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-08-26 00:00:00

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,ado. (indedlits • eme probably occir to, a person a ria aas oted stslift.sttitdhet
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day)4 .leimo ,rvellinhis ibout ,tour in the evening, vious history of this
gfoefirmaiintiebclaesemoaflshtlyiLttipaittlnLlto,
from 4i own shwilleat Intamiptignth, to- -his nrolstatif, ;nearly unitorm 'More of all atteinins hitherto met;
at Chowringhees lie lawntisarbilt*dot tibiae-404h% Tor its Curt; ' whether' the diseare now
man,:andisitwilim. • flatrial people were eollected Cured was in reality a
at thtestiet—eiteeleoappeoattiretif when •the tante:dot -produced by the bite of a rabid animal, I admit lb'
ran at him and as he leas retreating•beere Mtn, "bit sceptidism to be reasonable : for in the relation of
him indwell's& part of the right leg, about sixlisehes a case which , has terntinsted so differently from
above thartnkielwiterelni4haves tsfelarfartlheditA , all others yet on record (not even excepting the "se
4anceofteithichand% half from each otttee;hat Whits !SO successfully treated by Mr. Tymott), it issonmateuiren,
out any appearance of initametaitiol or tidektetlittir•Of I to suspect either some misconception or misreprev,„.
the integuisents. The dog, OW `bItIIV 11101.;•dhi.-4,1titiott of facts • or some fallacy in the deductions
appeared, and. he does not know what -beanie '4if i derived from them.
him Or oftheisherman. The wounds bled aided deal,' An litteetive, perusal of the preceding
but not being very deep, they sewn healed, 'veithbut will, it k presumed, remove those doubts from the
. any application. lie took no remedy except 'sae the,rminiignf the majority of readeis • yet, as
day he was bitten, a small- piece of scarlet cloth Idiiid'uals tray not be convinced 'by that evidence
Tsoollanee boat), wrapt up in a piece of ripe plain- 'which,! to others, appears full and satisfactory. 84
tain, which was 'recommended to him as an-infallible !Asitlia matter of the utmost importance to future
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, antidote against infection from the bite of C mad dog. „sufferer, from hydrophobia, that no doubt should be
He never saw any one in 'hydrophobia; and though ;allowed to remain, either as to the existence of (ha
he had heard that persons bitten by a mad dog were ;:iliseitse itself,. in the case above related, or that the
i liable to such a disease, the apprehension of it never 1 bleeding was the sole remedy. I shall, as briefly as
dwelt on his mind, or scarcely ever Occurred to hit*, possible, endeavimr to establish the eearyta,itarlyinoestf
after the' ay on which he was bitten. He continued beth.those facts beyond the possibility of contradic.
in his usual health till the 4th instant, seventeen ! lion.
i days after the bite, When he found himself dull, i To a person who has never seen a case of hydro.
heavy, and • listless, with loSs of 'appetite and fee- 'phobia, I acknowledge the difficulty, n
(limit apprehension that dogs, cats, and jackal's, the impossibility, of conveying by words, an ade.
were about to selie upon him. He also felt a prick...osta notion of the disease. The horrors of that
t ing sensation in the part bitten. When his mother. rine* mast be seen to be fully conceived ; by being
in-law brought him:his breakfast,. he was afraid to' Ogee seenty a medical observer of any discernment,
' eat it. He continued his business, however, of tak- ! tbey are indelibly fixed in the mind; and I contend that
ling water from the tank to the house, till about ; ftwould then be highly improbable that he should ever
1 noon of that day, after which he could not hear to .mistakoany. other diseasefoehydropholia, or false hy.
look on, or to touch the water, being constantly drophobia for any of those affections to which it has
harassed' whenever he attempted to do so, with the beeniaid to bear toile resemblance: so deep and so
horrible appearance of different animals ready to de- permament,-I am convinced, would be the impreisioo
tour him. He now, for the first time, thought of left on his mind by thecen emplation of even a single
the disease arising from thebite Of a mad dog, was case of hydrophobia. But when I state that my
convinced that was the cause of his present distress, *situation, as surgeon to the Calcutta Native Hospi.
and fully believed he would die of it. He ate no : tal, for the last eighteen years, has afforded me ()it.
supper, nor drank any water that night,' in conse- portunities of seeing the disease, which have fallen
.quence of the horrible phantoms that ince'ssautly : to the lot of a few individuals in any country, and
haunted his imagination. In the morning, ill his that no less than seventeen or eighteen cases of it
horrors were increased, the spasms came ea, lip: ' have come under my observation Within that period,
conipanied by anxiety, oppression, and .paitiaboaT ' in all of which both my diagnosis and prognosis (with
.. the •prwcotilia and stomach ;
.and those about I
the single exception of the latter in the case under
say that lie continued to get .and
in every respect! consideration) hate unhappily been but too fatally
untilhe arrived at the hospital in the state 64014 i lerilied, it is not, I trust, laying claim to too great
described. He does not himself distinctly rememberitift I share of discernment to assert, that I could not
thing that happened during the whole day. He 'las 'easily be mistaken in a case of Hydrophobia ; and
some faiut recollection of 'being at his own house r.l that I. should consider my being so as unlikely, as
, but hliv he got iliereiihen• he left itorlay what i that an experienced Surgeon should ever ceitfould
' means he was' brotight to'*the hoipitel, 'he disiseitoe; two diseases the most opposite in their nature; ba.
at all know. The first thing 'he an •recartb hill !Cause,. to an uninformed eye, they might both exhi.
'Aim' is 'drinking the sherbetand he ays tie lieshad i bit somethiug of the same external appearance.
' his sender perfectly. sine; that time—and that ail his .. ' ' • • ./. S.
karftfieti left him' and have not suttee returned. This
' however is not entirety correct, as IldlicknoWledges
that'he doeis dot recollect the secOndtleeding, Willett
•: shows' that the disease had then sd far returnedits"
I again to'disorder his mentor' faculties. ' '' -
1 Olt I,F-PAST TEX, A. • 114:-.co'in pi aini of seiere
1 head.ach, and his eyes are biereAulfuged than they.
1 , were in the morning. NO red& "Of- other symp.
.! toms:
' head shaVed, end sit leeches avplled to each
temple.
'Mule, P. M'.;—ToOk a pill .at tware, 'and Xi'.
other lest' now. lieiclitni.httsea' freely. lledtt-ttelf.!
relieved. 'rook eigbt ounces More 'of sago about
noon.
Six, P. M.—The same. lias`now taken twenty.
eight 'grains. of calomel it -' td i6ven orOpium. '.To
take from this time. only two grains •Of 'calomel and
half a grain of opium every thrceliours.
Nine, P.' M.—ha slept or two hour .. 7.. ratlefi
4;ioiling
in,_.
eighti. Took another bribe- pills -' order c• length is a rnomrat,
also some more sago. 'Conjoin's bilious e'vaeuttioe. : • A Sirerpstakeu uk
—...
Still complain, of Oddi n ow; ..14ut- nothetd-ach: :I
ss • • -
sir C:
irbugbidtated .Duru .
. tiIURSDAY, ilia s77.lct Catnip noy,' stiA. M. 77 14.1..01\%re:,,. ',jaw-- '
Took a pill at twelve, but refutia .oue at three, sap- The 0:-' --
ing his mouth was. 'site. ' •TObk oho 'ntii.: Has:
been Mather restless' in•the Mitt Threw up some
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' bile this morning. '
' ' Tax, A. A—Exceedingly distressed with exces.
' lire Secretion :of bile, which bb• istfrequently throw.
big up,, and also' nieilitg dosewriearde in great quits.
tity ; and of a dnik-gteiticolenr. Pulse TlO. Some
heat•of -skin—expression:Of uneasiness hi bis coml.'
tenarice—buteinkseniation all over the abdiarnelf;•
but quite different, lie says, from the forther pain
about-the stomach. He was ordered a pint of inftn!
' sion of camomile, which brought off muClibile. At ?
eleven, eight grains of calomel 3: a nd, half.past twelve, !
half a dram each of jelap and magnesia. From the '
effects-of these remedies, he wag much relieved in
the evening ; though the complaint continued to dis-
turb him in the night, and is witenecessary on •• ,
Flt IDAY MORNING', BTH (4-rts btv),—To pro-
' Mote the-farther evacuation of bile by:senea) manna,
rindsreatts ef...tertar;:and to order trauma of con-
'joeito allay-local irritittien, nitriata oidy eiigilly; soft.
*Burning removed from the abdomen. -Ate a water'
' melon in the night. Copious-flow ofialiva from his
mouth. . ~ . . .

•EfIAM RACES:

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. Yesterday, Striqkgskci4 the fatuous neat drew t
•comptny übprecedentest on the course. 'The visiters
were so eager SO get a. sight of him, that crowds
waited at the stable door ; and after the race, Sir C.
Vutbury desired that the company might be gratis
feed With a full view of him. He was placed in a
circle, opposite the EXoyal. Stand, for the Queen and
Printrset to. viessottid.aftennirds io other parts 01
the Coorse•

Tile tint race was the Magna Chart* Stakes, of 50gs. each, IL ft.
for 3-ytold chlti,•tti carry tilt. 51b. The wlam. rof the Webs
or Oaks to carry 51b. Ostia. •
Sir C. Sinthbry's b..c. Smolensk° . - 1
D.-of Vor&'s c. by Giles, oteLof .Vealsro darn - 2
Smolensk.° was said to have been short of work, and he was
the favoorite at 7to 4 only. Goodison; Who rode him, k-pt up
the oPpearanee of a race with Chillney (Who rode the Dukes
Cult) to ,opposite the !loyal Stand, with ii twenty y,,rds of the
triunity!, post, Chen he slacked his reins,. and Sisoleasko got a
length id a mordent, and won in a Canter.'
' A S Weepstakes isf2sgs. each.
Sir C: Bitaboly. named Dorus- - • -
Mr. Olakels Wisdom - • t
.0. of V ark's c. by Giles, out of Ventures data - 3
Tii Datil the favourite—and 2to 1 agit:Dorus. A famous
•
ratter* •• ' •
• .. The Ladies Plate of 50gs. for all agcg. ,
Mr. eadlirake's Hamlet -
Mi. Mike's Sp ightly - •
idt. TrevassiOuTs LdtZen
5 to 4 agst.• the winner.

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POLICE.

Uxtest-nw.—The respectable inhabitants of Lambeth parish
having\ for some time past; been midi's ed beyond all precedent
by the great increase orhouses of .110. one in that quarter, the
Parish , Otlicers determined to clear that diturict over.. which
their influence extends, of this nuisance, by prosecuting to con-
viction; the priestesses Who preside oyeribese temples of de-
bauchery. ••They hive ainstnenecd their labours in Oakley-.
street,..uear tbo. Asylum, • and yesterday ten female house-
keepers tit that street, were introduced to the,presence of the
Magistrate!, by Mr. Brown, the Ailing Parish Officer. These
ladies woe of various ales and complexions, and in gmeral
pleaded. ignorance of having. committed any offence, and en-
frircedlbeir pleadings by the aid of tears and lainettiaiiiiits. Oae
of theta,- Sarah Ilantiab, an imenceni yore g creature, bordering
on three-sepre years and teo, said she had Absolutely been $. -
dnceit unipillingly into this yile way-of lite. Unfortunately for
het;•bein.ver; doe of the Worthy shltagistauts. beliag troulded
with a Vitiations mentor., (Mr.- I:nrin6l, rectalleitsd this limn-
cent damsel as baying been the proprietress of a house nots-
rionsly infamous, situate in Angel-court, Charing-cross, about
16years ago; Which 'Abuse 111M-sliins•ObHged to quit, ih con e-
quenee of a nuns-having been murdered there. lier innocence.
therefore, did not ay:4l her,
.mid she was. wish the rest of the.
hags 'committed .o pass the night in •llorseinniiger-lane, for
wailer stiffmient Sureties for. their failure gond cottliiet.
Bodphow, husband of :one of the-ladies. coming to oflrr hail for
her, was told he was a party concerned, and committed till tic
shmstd And bnil'for libuselt also.
litxxstou-nousx.—Ye terday a well-knonat pickpocket,
*lased Hayes, was examined, on a charge of picking the po..ttet
of Sir. Hamden, a respectable inhabitant of the llty, while
he Waft:walking. along i irk-ream ch-street. The charge was al-
most premed, when.tha. Prismierrequested be might be sent tw
serikehjs Majesty, The hirosecutor had nu objection to the pro-
pUslticitr, and the Prisoner *as atio,%ed to enter on board Liao
tendert .. • •

SATURDAY 9 (5Ta DAY),_ lit; -A. M.—lfas peued
a good night. Humana -secretion. of bile has,,
ceased. Clumooroes_for food, fm t-I allow him only
rice end sago ; declinesmiik. He appears now to be%
free.from all complaint. After this time. nothingre. 1
markable occurred. lie bedsit strong appetite, endl
We& allowed 'vegetable carry.-.--For several evenings
seme heat of skin-and acceleration of pulse were
perceptible; but these soon went off - from caltl.
bathing, and e constant atteation to keep histoweis
ia kin •opott •state.

•MONDAIf, MAY 18, (14T11 DAY)r—Mill AVM fO7
some days past on the. usual hospital diet, and feel-..
lag himself west in:eseer Respect, now expresses a,
wish to be discharged, and return to his usual busi-
ness ; but as the weather is exceedingly hot (Hier.
tnetnet e re I n the s heeds !row 9 531. t o.100a) I hese pre-
railed upon hint to tontine* in, the hospital till the
setting in• of the mains; I shall then, if possible,'
persuade him to reneaitrk my own employment for
the-next twelve months, lest if ,lee were diseharged,•
and shookl happen, to :die of whatezer disease, It
might beulloged, that be was alter all carried off by a,
reispss4f
,the hydrophobia. • •
REMARKS:
On hearing that a •reeopery from bydrophohie.hest
been effected in the shoat space a two hoots,- by
the single remedy of blostf-littin& a Ataabi !mar

• BIItTIL
Lately, at (lately Park, her Lirsee the llutthess of flatlands
of a son and heir.

MA1L111.E:). .
Ou Tuesday, the 17th inst.. Thomas Stevens EN of Alder-
manlutry, to Miss Ddralsllant, tit-Upper Pictleld-strect,ilittJ
roy -wore.
C4sTnesday last, John Finch Mason, Esq. to Mary, eldest
daughter of the late Col. Samuel Cox, of Sanford-park, Os-
lorthitlre.
On Wednesday the fr.sah. inst. John Cnthhert Jo}mer, F•(1'
only *mud' Joh
nJoyner,,. Vsq..of Camberwell, ls-
Mary cut
Child, Meta Innen-etc of IV:titans Child. Lac Meputi of Coe
Weal eftilidga. •4

iiirn:
On. tbe Atlth last in hi% boor AY Wet, James'
I)oughts, timpiaidie ?rich year of Waage.

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