Case of Rabies Canina; Salivation; Recovery
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Before giving details of this case, I beg to lor war a some extracts from a number of the Mofussilite, which records instances of hydrophobia having been cured by mercurial salivation. These extracts suggested to me the mode of treatment pursued in the present instance. " We regret to have to record a case of hydrophobia in this neighbourhood. In our last number we mentioned that a dog, which showed signs of rabies, had escapcd from Mr. Higgs's, of Trescott, communicating the disorder to other dogs, and doing other mischief. "We learn that about a month ago a servant girl in Mr. Higgs's service was tying up the dog in question, when the animal bit her on the right thumb. She experienced no serious results until Tuesday week, when her thumb, arm, and chest became considerably swollen, accompanied with great heat, pain, redness, stiffness, and numbness; the arm being so stiff that she was almost unable to move it. Mr. Higgs sent for Mr. Pope, Surgeon of this town, who saw the girl on Thursday, and found her evidently suffering from hydrophobia, the result of the bite of the dog. On Friday night she became very ill, biting and tearing at almost everything near her, and suffering much from convulsions. She repeatedly declared that she heard the dog growling at her; indeed, she displayed all the symptoms of this dreaded disease. As surgical writers on the subject do not lay down any specific mode of treatment in cases of this kind, Mr. Pope determined to cause profuse _ saliva-
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