On hydrophobia and its 'treatment,' especially by the hot-air bath, commonly termed the Bouisson remedy / by Victor Horsley.

  • Victor Horsley
Date:
1888
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    of the body surface as the head, to the cooler air doubtless exerted none but a beneficial effect. In two instances (Experiments 6 and 8, Tables I. and II.) it will be seen that the animals succumbed to heat paralysis. These were cases in which the disease was extremely marked, Experiment 6 being one of those remarkable instances in which the virus from the rabid dog of the streets occasionally evokes the first symptom and causes death within the minimal period, namely, that of vims fixe. In these cases I was endeavouring to counteract the ob- viously more intense action of the malady by more prolonged bathing, but of course the injurious effect of the bath found little resistance in the central nervous system already overwhelmed by the disease, and so produced the fatal result. TABLE II /SQ7 This leads me now to speak first, of the appearance of the symptoms calling for the treatment by the bath, secondly, of the action of the bath upon the normal and upon the rabid animal. i. The initial symptoms. As is well-known, in the rabbit rabies is rarely (see Table I., Experiment 15) accompanied by the excitement so usually seen in other animals. Consequently the first symptoms observed in this animal is the paresis of the hind limbs, this occurring