Cases and observations on the hydrophobia ... To which is annexed, an account of the Caesarian section; with reflections on dividing the symphysis of the ossa pubis / [by William Hunter].

  • Vaughan, James, 1740-1813.
Date:
[1778]
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Credit: Cases and observations on the hydrophobia ... To which is annexed, an account of the Caesarian section; with reflections on dividing the symphysis of the ossa pubis / [by William Hunter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE the Second. JN the year 1775, a fecond Cafe of the Hydrophobia occurred to me, the parti¬ culars of which the reader will find in the following narrative, A young Farmer, aged 25 years, of a thin habit, and uled to the mod laborious kind of employment in hufbandry, was bit in the month of September by a mad- dog ; a flight wound was made by the animal in the fore-finger of the left-hand, about mid¬ day on Wednefday. On the Tuefday fol¬ lowing, the moon being at the full, he went to the fea, and was dipped as much, and for as long a time, as is ufually pradti- fed at thofe places : drinking afterwards upon the fpot, fea-water as a purge ; which operated brifldy. The wound at firft bled freely, and was made to do fo more than once by his occupation in the field ; which at that feafon of the year, was gathering beans. It healed whilft at the falt-water, and never afterwards gave him the leafl: trouble. 1 On