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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    dipt in the fea, yet died of the hydrophobia fome months after.—Dr. F other gill, in his Additional Remarks on the treatment of per- sons bit by mad animals, addreffed to the editors of the Medical Observations, &c. fays : I have heard of diverfe in fiances, ?• 290. and I have no doubt but you are as well fatisfied as myfelf, and perhaps from your own obfervation, that this procefs (fea-bathing) is by no means a prefer- vative from the fatal confequences of ** the bite of mad animals.—Default, a phylician at Bourdeaux, in his treatife fur la Rage gives his opinion on this fubject in the following words : When I am applied to by a perfon bit by a mad. animal, I order him to bathe in the fea, *' though T have no dependance on this remedy, fince the many proofs we have had of its inefficacy in the courfe of the prefent year.—Choi/el, a Jefuit re- fiding at Pondicherry, in a pamphlet pub- limed at Paris in 1756, in which he relates many examples of canine madnefs cured by mercu rial fridion, fays : Bathing m the fea has hitherto been confidered as an iinfallible prefervative from this diforde:r. My own experience proves F the