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Show 134. Anrtlugicol Considerations. Analogical Consideratiorm Cellulosam, sed sine dubio nerves ipsos viam essc per quam letiferus efl‘ectus in universum agat corpus (Diss. cit. 21).- Thelocal sensation has strong analogies. Scars, particularly if thick and clumsy, smart or itch upon excitement ofthe system. --VVe all know what happens to them in the sea-scurvy. Schirri too became painful and steatoms rapidly enlarge after mental emotion and febrile attacks. The exalted sensibility in hydrophobia would be most felt, I conceive, in a recently wounded place, if but a common wound; how much more if the wound were poisoned and the centre of disease? It may be added that in hydrophobia, Sallin (sur la nature et le siege dc la rage 1783) found the ganglions of the cervical nerves inflamed and their coats turgid with blood (dans un etat inflammatoire et d‘engorgement sanguin) : an observation among the most interesting that have been made and in the most satisfactory manner, coalescing with several facts previously stated. From what has been said a very important practical conclusion results. The wounded part orig/2t to [-0 cut out or alc- In the case of Mr. H. Meynell (Phil. trans. voi', xci. not xcii.) the accident, which palpably affected the median nerve low down, took place in winter 1796. of local disease was evident in 1797-8. The progress In Oct. 1799, and not before, the brain began to suffix-transient insensibility them coming on ; and in about eight months afterwards the disorder proved fatal from a seizure, styled apoplexy. The patient, naturally eager, was chilled and apparently a good deal irritated, when his first fit was brought on. The following consideration has still more weight with me than even such an example. Of all thoselaws of the animal oeconomy, that lie a littte remote from vulgar apprehension, the one most capable of demonstration is this. Moral and physical agents will suddenly impress upon (my part ofthe system a character which may remain latent for an indefinite term-half a cen< tury, for example-but which circumstance: shall distinctly call forth-Of great permanency I have seen proofs enough. Of greater, proofs can be easily found. I may produce them, ifnecessary, on some future occasion. If this be true of by» The sooner undoubtedly drophia, dogs must be laid under repeated quarantines, before But before the eruption of hydrophobia there will there could be a chance of dryingr up the sources of the poison. stroycd a! any time rifle," the bite. the better. suspense, 335 be hope, as well according to Dr. Autenrieth, as according to The late case of Brothers in America, (N. Y. rapes. viii° 15.); the increasing disposition in our medical men to return to the idea of double absorption. In 1794 the physicians of the Manchester lunatic hospital the freer use of the lancct, and other considerations will lead uitnesscd a decisively marked case of hyrlrophobia, which to profuse bleeding in hydrophobia. arose twelve years after the bite of a dog, pursued for mad. of the American case precludes a positive decision on its na- The meagre narrative That the disease had no connection with the bite is the opi- ture. But if I may whisper an opinion, the high fever, " pulse Syriac/La," dull headache, watery eyes, necessity for nion of Dr. Bardsley (Reports 304); and he is supported by four young men to confine the patient's struggles and other " several eminent practitioners." The idea of danger for particulars induce me to suppose it an excellent case of life hanging over a person once bitten and not having the part cut out is horrible." But are we to believe just what we wiShP-Hydrophobia is so ill understood and the opinion so arbitrary that I can by no means acquiesce in if. phrcnitis with difficult deglutition, and Thomas Brothers therefore all the better for bleeding like a stuck pie. If he refused any thing aqueous, he also required to be drenched with his calomel and jalap. Now adult sufferers under by» The above view of the subject tends to hold my judgment in drophobia SUSPCIICC m M098‘1 i l |