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![the hand grew steady—my patient recovered the full use of hoth...(Horn's Archiv. Balin, 1805. viii. p. 333.) J hope that the reader wiU not quarrel with me for putting him ia possession of the last fact, because it is not just an experiment on the production of convulsion in fever. P. 133.// ti'ouldle easytomakevariousproposahfor thetreat- ment of hydrophoMa, onbare sptcnhtion. But as profuse Heed- z»S alone has the shadow of a sanction in experience and anato- my, I give the American case entire, lest a mistaken judgment of mine should prevent the rescue of any mortal from so dire a disease. It may le thought that the antecedent irritation of the wound outweighs all the opposite prolabilities; for even the strong desire to worry has actually, as the respective cases testify, more of phrenxy than of hydrophobia. The symptom IS of the greatest weight. But I know that recent scars will become troublesome under far diJTerent kinds of indisposition; and I venture to propose the state of such scars, as a mark for ohsehation on the onset of fever, when opportunity offers. We should not be over hasty in consti- tuting this or that sign as diagnostic. T. B. An AccooMT o/a Cas? o/Hydrophobia successfully treated iycopiozAJ Bleeding qtzcJMercuey: In two Letters from Dr. Robert Burton, of Bent, in the State of Virginia, to Dr. Benjamin Rush, of Fhiladelphia. Bent-Creek (FirginaJ Augusl2], 1803. SIR, Believing that you are always disposed to encourage any thing which may throw light upon the treatment of diseases, ' I take the liberty of addressing to you the following case of hydrophobia, requesting a line or two, if you think it deserv- ing your attention. On the 4th of July, 1803, at nine o'clock in the evening, I was desired to visit Thomas Brothers^ aged twenty-eight years](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21439023_0260.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
