An essay on the bite of a mad dog, in which the claim to infallibility of the principal preservative remedies against the hydrophobia is examined / by John Berkenhout, M.D.

  • Berkenhout, John, 1730?-1791.
Date:
1783
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Credit: An essay on the bite of a mad dog, in which the claim to infallibility of the principal preservative remedies against the hydrophobia is examined / by John Berkenhout, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    *• which was fixed to the yard-arm of the veffel. I afked the meaning of this *' fpeclacle, and was anfwered by one of the failors, that the old man had got the hydrophobia, having, fome time ago, been bit by a mad dog. Why, I afked, is he brought to the fea? Whe- ** ther they meant to drown him ? 'No, no, (faid the failor) he will foon be cured; fuch is the bleffing of God upon the fea, that it will inftantly cure this kind of madnefs.' At my requeft they took me on board. We had fcarce failed a et mile, when the failors, by pulling out a plug in the bottom of the fhip, let in *' the water, till fhe funk almoft to the edge of the gunwale. This fea-water u they colledled for the purpofe of making *' fait. The plug being now re-adapted, two men hauled down the oppofite end of the yard, and thus hoifted the old man into the air. They then let him drop into the fea, and he remained under water adfpatium Miferere. They repeated this operation twice more, keeping him each time under water ad fpathim Sflutatioms Angelica. 84. Some