The retrospective address, upon medical science and literature, delivered at the fourth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association held at Manchester, July 21st, 1836 / by John Green Crosse.

  • Cross, John, 1790-1850.
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1836
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    IG the eflfccts of the poison have beo-mi to shew them- selves, in voinitiijg-, stupor and slio-ht convulsions, the treatment lias answered ;* and it seems to have been clearly ascertained that the antidote, given in excess above what is required to neutralize the poi- son, is of itself harmless, as is likewise the product of its union with the arsenious acid. In no division of therapeutics is there more vague- ness,—upon no subject does the medical press of the last year present greater contradictions, even when conveying the expressed opinions of men of great experience and renown, than upon hydrophobia. With us this disease is so rare, that we require its nature and origin to be better understood, scarcely so much for the purpose of being able to cure, as for preventing those apprehensions which so often and so needlessly seize the public mind, and bring our police into activity; but in several countries of Europe the disease appears to be frequent, and we have rabies canina, vulpina,\ felina, described by the best authorities. The symptoms which charac- terize this malady are often not stated with precision ; every case is fascinating to which the term hydropho- bia is attached, and readily finds admission into our the symptoms of poisoning have shewn themselves.—Experiences con- statant I'efficacitc de Vhydrate de peroxyde de fer comme antidote de Varsenic, par M. Boulay, in Mem. de I' Acad. Royale de Med. vol. IV. p. 308. * See cases by MM. Bineau et Majestc, in Journal des Connoissances Medico-chirurgicalcs, A^ovenibre,1835.—Also, British and Foreign Medical Review, vol. I. p. 573. t Dr. Heyfelcler (in Wurtembergisches Medicinisches Correspondens- BluttJ mentions many foxes shewing themselves in the villages, af- fected with the disease, and that dogs bitten by them died of liydro- phobia.—See Encyclogrnphie des Sciences Medicates, Mars, 183C; and Edinburgh Medical and SurgicnlJnnrnal, vol. XLIII. p. 77.