Volume 1

An essay on the hydrophobia: to which is prefixed the case of a person who was bit by a mad dog; had the hydrophobia; and was happily cured / [Christopher Nugent].

  • Christopher Nugent
Date:
1753
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay on the hydrophobia: to which is prefixed the case of a person who was bit by a mad dog; had the hydrophobia; and was happily cured / [Christopher Nugent]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [fee] poor Wretches like her, as fhe heard was often done, between Feather- beds ; for, fhe faid, they needed only to have kept Water in her Sight, and it would have certainly done the Work in a few Moments. SHE was no fooner taken ill than Mr. Wright was called upon, and _she came. He gave her a little Wa- ter and Spirits of Hartfhorn in a {mali Cup, and fhe tock of it, but fuddenly threw it out of her Mouth, and fome-Froth and Phlegm along ‘with it. Some Women. who ftood ~ by, infifting fhe had only Ay/- gerics, Mr. Wright, without letting the Patient know any thing of the Matter, had a Bafon of Water brought in, as if by chance; but the Mo- ment fhe caft her Eye that Way, fhe fs Ahricked out sot vehemently ; tofled
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