The case of a hydrophobia / By Dr. Fothergill. Reprinted from the fifth volume of Medical observations and inquiries. By a a [sic] society of physicians in London. With additions.

  • John Fothergill
Date:
1778
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Credit: The case of a hydrophobia / By Dr. Fothergill. Reprinted from the fifth volume of Medical observations and inquiries. By a a [sic] society of physicians in London. With additions. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Both the matter and maid took the Ormfkirk medicine as fpeedily as poflible, and obferved the directions given with it. The matter’s leg foon healed, and he Teems to have thought no more of it. Perhaps fortunately for the girl, her leg did not heal ; it grew worfe, and baffled the fkill of a young furgeon to whom The applied. We were told The afterwards got into one oT the city hoTpitals, oil this account, and we have no doubt but ffie is mil i iving. Our endeavours to find her out, and to know in what fitua- t'ion The is, have not yet been TuccefsfuPk It is here worth obTerving, that two perfons are bit by a mad cat, at the fame time; the firft who was bit, and the mcft Teverely, efcapes; the Tecond loTes his liTe. The wounds of one healed prefently, the other become a fore, notwithffanding endeavours to the contrary Both lifed the Tame preven¬ tive means. May not then the happy efcape of the girl be owing to the Tore which followed from * f Have fmce learned that her leg continued long in a fore ft ate, but that ihei&novv perfect]/ weii, Aug* zcj, 1774.
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