A course of lectures on hydrophobia : its history, pathology, and treatment / compiled from manuscript notes of the late Dr. T.S. Holland ; delivered in the theatre of the North Charitable Infirmary and City of Cork General Hospital by T.C. Shinkwin.

  • Holland, Thomas S.
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[1865]
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Credit: A course of lectures on hydrophobia : its history, pathology, and treatment / compiled from manuscript notes of the late Dr. T.S. Holland ; delivered in the theatre of the North Charitable Infirmary and City of Cork General Hospital by T.C. Shinkwin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ITS msioiiv, rATIIOLOCiY, AND rillCATMKN'I. ijO used in the following niiuincr ;—The person who had been bitten first eont’essed and reeeived absolution, after which the following prayer was said :—“ Oremus. Omnipotens sempiterne J)cus, qui bcati ot gloriosi Confessoris tui et ]*onli(iiis Huberti nieritis, saipe diversos niorbos et lan- guores curasti, concede perpetuo ut euncti, qui cjus ini- plorant auxilium ab infestione daiinonum et subitanco nioi te et oinni rabie, morbo ot pcrieulo corporis et anima' j’jgutcr ejus intercessione liberati per Christum domi- num nostrum. Amen.” After the repetition of this prayer the key was heated in a lire, and, while heating, the patient repeated the following prayer:—“ Deus qui bcatum Hu- bertum Confessorem tuuin atque Pontificem ad viam veri- tatis inirabiliter conversisti et plurimos dasmoniacos mentis raptos et labieinfectos ipsis perieulis restituisti tribus quas- sumus utejusdem patrocinio fainulas (famula) lajsus (laesa) abomini inloxicatione ac deinonium incureio aberata et Sana tibi inente et corpore famuletur, per dominuin nos- trum Jesuin Christum. Amen.” The bitten part was then r;auterized with the key, and if it was considered desirable, to increase the security against the consequences of this present as well as of all future inj uries, the man or animal, for it could be used to either, w.-is burnt under the longue and on the forehe.ad with the round or handle part of the key. Thus the merit of having originated sublingual cauterization does not belong to Marochetti, having been for centuries before he was born practised in the name and with the key of St. Ilubertus. Hut the virtues of the saint were, by some inexplicable means, transmitted to his descendants, and in the parish of Senlis there lived one of his descendants, a peasant, who, by touching those bitten, secured to them immunity from the disease for 101 years. Hut in order to keep a constant