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firmed to have recovered. The two firft had been plunged in fea water, which did not prevent a Hydrophobia. The third and fourth, bit by the mad cow, and the fifth, fupposed to have tasted her flaver, were not immerged at all, and had no Hydrophobia. The fixth is not mentioned to have been dipped, nor to have had the great fymptom: and the seventh, who was dipped, and never had the Hydrophobia, is affirmed to have died two years afterwards of a putrid fever, without the least manifeftation of any rabious fymptom at his death. Some of them were treated with a variety of medicines; but different mercurials, internally and externally, feem to have been chiefly effectual in the cure. In the fecond cafe, indeed, a confiderable quantity of opium was used, and seems to have conduced to it. This valuable extenfion of the use of mercury was discovered by Default, and revived by Dr. James.

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So many fuccefsful escapes, however contradicted by a much greater number of fatal confequences from this surprizing poison, affirmed by reputable Writers, may afford fome comfort to perfons who have received it: and undoubtedly a calm and hopeful state of the mind, must be a circumstance that can neither prevent nor retard the cure. To hazard a prescription or expedient on fuch an alarming occafion-Suppose the actual cautery, fire, applied immediately on the bite; or, where the Patient might be too irrefolute to fubmit to it, an active potential cautery, of a moderate fize, to be fixed upon, and round the orifice of the bite; might not a radical cure be reasonably expected from the fudden conftriction of all the flefhy, vafcular, and nervous fibres; and from the incirculable, uncommunicating ftate of the fluids, in the poisoned part? even if we could fuppofe the poifon itself not to be deftroyed, nor effectually altered in its pernicious quality, from fo powerful an application. As the frequently mortal operation of this vitiated canine faliva feems conftantly to commence, at whatever period, with a pain in and near the fpot through which it was injected; the early deftruction and feparation of that, and of its immediately contiguous fibres and fluids, has fo rational and promifing an afpect, that it seems to be worth effaying at leaft, in a difeafe, where the fuccefs of many other inftruments has certainly been often fallible. But this by the way.

We shall conclude this Article, after obferving that our Author is rather a diligent reader, than a very accurate writer, with presenting fuch practitioners, as may be remote from the best affiftance on fuch an unhappy occafion, with

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the most recent advice and prefcriptions of this gentleman, who has laboured fo much on the fubject.

"The part bitten fhould immediately be cleaned from the faliva of the mad dog, and the wounds encouraged to bleed, carefully clearing the blood away; then half a dam of the mercurial ointment, known by the name of unguentum cœruleum fortius, or the fronger blue ointment, fhould be rubbed in, and repeated night and morning, increafing or lefening the quantity, as it may prove neceflary. Sanguine conflitutions will require bleeding; leucophlegmatic, relaxed, and bilious ones, fhould be vomited, either with ipecacuanha wine, with or without oxymel of jquils, which will cleanfe the ftomach and bowels from the putrid bile, and acid faliva, that has been di charged into them; and in the advanced ftage, when liquids begin to pafs with difficulty, if it be requifite to empty the ftomach and bowels, after plentiful bleedings, fome grains of ipecacuanha and white hellebore root may be given in a bolus, made up with the oxymel of fquills. Thele vomirs will be lefs apt to irritate the prime via, than either turbeth mineral, or any antimonial preparation.

"Doctor MEAD's tulvis artilygus may then be taken every morning, in warm milk, to procure the urinary discharges, while the mercurial frictions are continued, and if thefe are inclined to falivate, an emollient clyfter, or a purge, with manna, cooling falts, and rhubarb, may be given. Rhubarb, either in powder, or the fyrup, will be beft adapted to children. Clyfters are recommended, in all flages, by Doctor DESAULT, pofeffor BOERHAAVE, and Doctor MLAD; and are to be compofed of fuch ingredients as the cafe may require, whether emollient, or coolers. After the mercurial ointment has been used four or five days, and the parient purged with fome of the abovementioned medicines, or, if neceffary, with crude mercury, divided with turpentine, and mixed with rhubarb, or by mercurius dulcis, well fublimed, and mixed with rhuba b; then it may be proper, in fome cafes, efpecially where the fpafms are frequent, to give the cinnabars, either with or without muk, as perfumes agree or difagree with the patient: indeed there are inftances wherein musk has not been difagreeable to the ftomach, although the perfon could not ufually bear the fmell of it. The cinnabar powders are to be taken cvery fix or eight hours, with a julep of rue water, pennyroyal water, tincture of caftor, and fome common fyrup, or in a glafs of arrack alone, or with water.

"In tender conftitutions, antifpafmodic and antihyfteric medicines may be used, towards the end of the cure; but nature, in this difeafe, no more than in any acute diforder, is not to be overcharged with medicines: for, as Doctor MORTON obferves," an officious overloading feldom goes off unpunifhed.". And care must be taken, left, instead of strengthening the nerves, they fuffer not by too much irritation.

Such patients as can, without fear, be prevailed upon togo into the cold bath, willingly and of themfelves, may complete their cure by that immerfion; but force, or too earnest perfuafion, are cautiously to be avoided.

"The diet to be kept, during the mercurial frictions, which, as hath been faid, are to be repeated according to the cafe, and intirely depended upon, is to be light and nourishing, neither high feafoned, nor acrid: in the worft ftages, a moderate quantity of wine may increase the inflammation; whereas wine may be of ufe in the beginning, and in a dej. cted state. White meats will fuit the ftomach beft; and milk pottage, water gruel, polenta, that is, a decoction of oatbread toafted, and toast and water, may be drank: as likewife an infufion of black currants ftalks and leaves, or baum tea' fweetned with black currant jelly: these two laft will better fuit in the inflammatory stage.

"So far from confining the patients to their room, or houfe; exercife, company, and diverfions, are to be encouraged : for the mind being as much affected as the body, the cure will be much forwarded by a proper application to the paffions, avoiding all converfation relating to madnefs, or mad dogs. Doctor DESAULT relates the fuccefs which attended. thefe directions which he gave to a lady of Bourdeaux, who, under the course of mercurial frictions, conftantly vifited her friends, went to concerts, and other public places.

"Thus far the cure is only preventive of the hydrophobia, and defigned for the milder progrefs of the difeafe, and alfo when it is complicated with hypochondriac or hyftrical symptoms; but in the confirmed ftate, when the hydrophobia appears, the actual cure is to be performed by copious and repeated bleedings, cooling clyfters, often adminiftred, of barley water, nitre, honey, and vinegar; and, after thefe evacuations, it may be allowable, in cafe of a confiderable flow of the faliva, to apply a blifter round the neck, to take off part of the difcharge, as fucceeded in Doctor HELE's remarkable observation: this is the only time wherein blifters can be fafely

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applied. But the medicine chiefly to be depended upon is the mercurial ointment, which is to be rubbed in three times a day, and continued till the fymptoms decrease, and the difcharge from the glands of the mouth fhew it is proper to leffen the quantity of the ointment."

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N. B. To this Gentleman the Public is alfo obliged for an Effay on the contagious diftemper among the Cattle. See Review, Vol. XVII. p. 36.

FOREIGN ARTICLE.

EMILE; ou de l' Education. Par J. J. Rouffeau, Citoyen de Geneve. Or,

EMILIUS; a Treatife on Education. 4 vols. 12mo. Amfterdam. Imported by the London Bookfeller's..

Th

HE extraordinary notice which hath been taken of this publication abroad, and the fevere treatment it hath met with in France, and elsewhere, have already been communicated to the public by means of the News papers. If to these circumftances, therefore, we add the well-known character of the Writer, and the importance of the fubject, no one will wonder that fo general a curiofity and attention have been excited throughout Europe, in regard to fo interefting a performance.

In the plan and conduct of this work, which is calculated for the information of all ranks and degrees of people, the very ingenious Author fuppofes himfelf the Tutor of a young Gentleman, whom he takes the charge of, and conducts from the earliest term of infancy, to the age of manhood. Applicable to the feveral periods of this interval, he gives very minute and circumftantial directions for a general courfe of education; illuftrating thofe which particularly regard the male part of our fpecies, by the example of EMILIUS, and fuch as refpect the fair fex, by that of SOPHIA an happy marriage being at length defignedly effected between thefe amiable parties': a circumftance which, added to the entertaining conduct of the whole piece, gives this very inftructive treatife the air and manner of the moft agreeable Romance.

Mr. Rouffeau has been frequently charged with an unreasonable

reafonable attachment to peculiarity and paradox; it can hardly be expected, therefore, he fhould be free from this imputation in his manner of treating fo delicate a fubject as that of Education. He is able, however, to apologize for himfelf; and, indeed, were all the exceptionable parts of his book extracted and thrown afide, there would be a fufficiency of original matter, and striking obfervation, to enable a dozen ordinary Authors to divide the remainder among them, and figure away on the subject. A more minute and fagacious Obferver, perhaps, never exifted: his hints and fuggeftions alfo, for the improvement of our fpecies, and of fociety, are, in general, extremely acute and ingenious: his views, nevertheless, are frequently too confined, and his arguments fometimes wanting in folidity.

But we shall not proceed to a farther account of this work at prefent, as we learn, with pleasure, that the Gentlemen who obliged the public with a tranflation of Eleifa, have an dertaken alfo to give a translation of Emilius.

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Art. 1. The Practice of a Justice of Peace: Containing the Statutes which give furifdiction to that Magiftrate. With a greater Variety of Precedents formed upon the Words of the Acts of Parliament, than in any other Book extant. Compiled and published under the Direction of the Right Hon. Lord Ward. By T. Cunningham, Efq; 8vo. 2 vols. 145, bound. Owen.

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E have formerly had occafion to commend the labours of those induftrious Compilers, who have taken the pains to reduce the confufed mafs of Law into a digested form, and to class the scattered materials under their proper heads of divifion: and we should for these reasons have applauded the Author of these volumes, had not the learned and accurate Mr. Burn forestalled the subject, and rendered this publication unneceffary.

Mr. Cunningham acquaints his Readers, that "the furnishing Juftices of the Peace with a fufficient variety of precedents, formed upon the words of the Acts of Parliament, was the fole motive for compiling the following fheets; fo that they may be affured, that no

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