The therapeutics of hydrophobia / by Wm. Curran.

  • Curran, William, 1927-
Date:
1886
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Credit: The therapeutics of hydrophobia / by Wm. Curran. 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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    medical perversity has devised or discovered 500 diflerent ccure^ for this one disorder, (a) Absinth Acids, Hydrochlo- ric, Hydrocyanic, Sulphuric, &c. Actual Cautery Adder’s Tongues— (Paracelsus) Affusion, hot, cold, and otherwise Agaricus Agrimony-roots AlexiphamS^ts^ Alysma Plantaris Allium Amulets Anagallis Purpurea Angustifolium Anise Anodynes Antiepileptics Antimony, Butter of Anthelmintics Anti-paralytics Anti-spasmodics Aromatics Aristolochia Artemisia Arsenic in various forms, as well in- Digestives Digitalis Docks, a decoction of Dragon-roots Elleborism Electricity Elder flowers Emetics Enemata Evacuants Escarotics and ex- ulcerants Fasting Fat, human and otherwise Flies, Spanish, &c. Frankincense Fraxinus, as a tin- der, &c. Frictions Galbanum Galvanism Gall of a croco- dile (5) Garlic Genista Tinctoria, alias Butcher’s Nitrous oxide gas Notonia grandi- flora Nux vomica Oil of lizards Oleum divas Oleum succini Onions Opium Ophirriza Mungos Oxylopatheun Peltidea canina Peony Pepper, black Periwinkles Pewter, scrapings of Pimpernel Phosphorus x Poison-Snake, &c. Polypody Potential cautery Precautionary mea- sures Profuse diaphoresis Purgatives Quinine (a) Am I not justified in appealing here, or under cover of these facts—for such they undoubtedly are-to those learned writers or able editors who have access to the public ear, and asking them to close their pages or their columns henceforth against the publication of these worthless^cures? May X not also avail myself of the same opportunity of bespeaking their aid towards such a modification— total repeal being apparently unattainable at present—of that invidious Experiments on Animals’ Bill, as could admit of a resumption of these experiments everywhere in these islands again. Without these, it is easy to foresee, that, physiology must, in time, become an exotic in the home of Boyle and'Brodie, and Hunter, and Huxley, and with- ^ out these also our Carpenters and Kirks and Fosters will have to vamp up their future treatises with the learn-i-Bga of German neolo- gists. If they do not consent to do so, i.e., if they will not sit at the feet of the German Gamaliel of the period, their labours will be lost, and their books will be of little more value to the physiological student of the future than Pling’s “Hist. -Nat.,’’ Albeitus Magnus ^De Secretis,” or Ennemosefs “History of Magic,” were to the philosophical physicians of the past, (b) “The Book of Ser Marco Polo,’’ (edited by Col. Tule), vol 11, p. 47. 5 y -A2fr\.