Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1829-12-09

From the London COUrlCT.
Cures or HYDBOPHoBIA The follow
ing remarks may not. perhaps, be unaccep
table to the readers Of the Courier. In the
columns of which we are frequently ia
vored with valuable hints in the different
departments of science. Nearly five years
ago the writer of this communication was
called upon TO see a stout young man ~
the second day Of his attack of the Hydro
1hobia, and being the first case he had ev-
er seen (though he had enjoyed extensive
sectice as 6 physician for several years,
he was much shocked at the hord scene
which presented itself The young man
had been bitten by his own dog about 4
weeks previous 20 the attack of the hydro
phobta He died the following day.
Two other persons had been bitten at
the same time by the same dog; they were
much alarmed at Witnessing the above
mentioned case. and they accordingly con-
suited the writer lie first allayed, as well
as he could. their fears and apprehensions,
and promised to DO all he could for them.
Rejecting that the canine species never
shew any sensible persplratlon, but an lieu,
when heated from whatever cause, they
have uniformly a coplous flow Of SALIVA
rejecting that the leaUen of this horid dis
ease has It's origin IN all instances, from
the bite Of a rabid or dying animal, which
has been tortured at It's death, the writer
holding these facts in view, adopted the
following plan:-The bitten, or rather ul-
cerated parts from the bites, were kept
open by means Of ing. Sabine. The sys-
tenn was kept free by means of aperients.
The Pdule Hydrargyri of five grains.
were given TO the extent of trum ten to If
teen grains per diem, IN order that those
glands which in the canine species shew
the peculiarly of their system, might be
for some time affected. This plan was
continued in both cases, for four or five
weeks, and about the end Of that time the
ulcers healed very kindly, though the ung
Sabina had been used the whole Of the
time.
These individuals have continued to Ell
10Y GOOD health. Not long after thus the
writer was called to visit a remarkably
hne Young woman, Of IL or Is years OF
ace. She had recently been bitten by a
mad doc, which was unknown to her
While She was feeding two young pigs, the
doc. 10 passing, bit them both, and they
both became mad and were killed accord
ngly by the proprietor. The writer calm
ed her l5ars-requested a Surgeon to In
else the bitten part, and bleed her freely at
the arm, whether once or twice the writer
does not remember. Aperients were CIV
en- for two days, and the same plan was
followed as in the above detailed cases.
The young female has been in good health
ever since.
tits indispensable that the greatest pub
6city should be gwen to every crcum-
stance connected with this disease, as It
mas been heretofore been the opprobrium
medicorum; and from these hints il Is hop
ed by the writer, that others may be induc-
ed 10 canvass the subject in the columns
or your valued Journal.
From every thing the writer has obsery-
ed. he IS strongly impressed that the Vita
ted saliva OF the rabid animal is carried
1 into the blood of the unlortunates BY means
! of the lymphatics, not by means Of the red
veins in a direct manner, as in some other
stances: for we observe in those persons
Who have been bitten very extensively up
on the face. that the disease does not make
Its appearance sooner, crserus PGrl5as,