Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-04-19

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approach Of the children. and Of pet female
dog iD the house. On the Goth of January
last, the dog became furious, three times at.
tempted TO bite his master, and was turned
t out. The animal. while running ont, seve
raj times bit the little female dog and dis.
appeared during two days. Gatien then
recolecting he had been told that bis dog
had been bitten last summer in the St Law
renee Suburb, by mad dog, no longer
doubted that he was attacked by the same
malady, and caused the female dog to be
closely watched.
On the 22d, the younge.t OF his daughters.
Henrietta. 70 years of age, opening the
outer door was bitten in three different pla.
ces in the LEFT loot, " the dog, who bad
returned to the house; and it was with
much difficulty that the animal was confined
in an apartment, where he died the same
evening, after having shewn unequisocal
symptoms madness.
On the Sd February fifteen days after
having been bitten, the female dog fell sick
and during six days that soc lived, exhibited
the same propensity to bite and the same
indications Of madness.
The morning after the accident, the Esd
Jan. the mother came to consult me about
her child. ] proposed TO her excision and
the ccatrsatiGn OF the wounds; but she
could not bring herself to consent TO it. l
gave her then volatile Iiniment, with d.
rections for il, use.
On the aO!h of February, having been
called to visit the eldest Of the daughters,
attacked with inflammation Of the lungs,
Madame Galien gave me to understand that
she was free from all apprehension on Hem
rietta's account, since the cicatrisation of
the wounds by the linimenr and by the
grand remedy Of oyster-sheIl, that she bad
procured at the Hotel Dieu, and from the
cure of St. Hyacinthe. Asking to see the
child. | found herextremely enacia ed, her
glance restless, her air sad and detected,
her voice tremulous, her countenance very
pale the appearance of the wounds bluelsh
though cicatrized, and that she felt in them
darling pains as if Ito use her own express
stony she was pricked with pin. con.
sidered these symptoms as the precursors
Of hydrophobia. .ndirequested the mother to
give me. immediate notice whenever the
child should grow worse.
On the 23d, the thirty-se day after !
the introduction Of the virus, Henrietta, in
the night fell inc frightful CONFUSION,
accompanied With starts, grinding of the
teeth, shuddenng over all the body, diff
Gully of respI alton and wildness of the |,
eyes.
Gu the Gath, finding herself better, the
child sat down I table at breakfast. Her
mother was pouring her tina from the cup
int the saucer, when, at the sight of the !
liqu id, she was seized with 4 secret horror |
and spasms in the throat, succeeded by a |
couvulsion nearly as vio.ent as that of the
preceding night. ] vas SUNNI med. and
besides the symptoms desc ibed at my first
visit. found the patient complaining Of a
great head ache, verti,o and pail in the
stomach and abdomen. l ordered 4 pur-
gative. Desiring to make a fair trial of
the ScuLL-cAP (Seutellaria) so much recon.
mended in cases Of Hydrophobia by the
Neu York Commercial Aduerti,er, l pre-
scribed as strong 40 infusion Of it as posi-
bic, to be repeated every three hours. in
dose, of wine glass full. The patient in
TACT, was able to take il during eight days,
experiencing occasionally nausea and al
ways repugnance..
ed March-The child has not fallen into
since the Gath February; but
!. csc last seven days the other symptoms
have increased and new ones presented
Her features are 30 altered a.
10 be scarcely recognizable; the pain in
her foot has reached the leg and thigh of
the same side, occasis ming there painful
so that she cannot support her
self upon it; the vertigos are such that she
cannot stand; the pain in her stomach i'm.
pedes respiration; she cannot endure the
light nor the view Of any bright substance;
Is agltated by the slightest impressions;
complains Of a severe sore throat and fire.
luent splitting o. viciors saliva; wishes, |.
but is unable, to drink; in her sleep is
roubled by starts that awake b. r: 70 re.