AN ALLEGED CURE FOR HYDROPHOBIA.
A correspondent, writing from Paris states that a well-attested oure for hydrophobia is just now occupying some atten~ tion in the medical world. The diseorery is due to the experiment of two Russian physicians, Drs Schmidt and Ledeben, A little girl, aged 12, was bitten on the hand by a mad dog. The wound, after being eauteriaed, healed in a few days, but a fortnight after the accident symptoms of hydrophobia set in. The physicians thereupon made the little patient inhale three cubic feet of oxygen ! By. this means, in the course of an .hour and a half, all the symptoms disappeared, and the child re« mamed calm. On the next day bnt one the malady returned in all its distressing characteristics, difficulty in breathing and swallowing, and tonic concisions. A,freah inhalation of oxygen was tried, and at the end of 45 minutes the attack sub- . Bided, nerer to return.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4858, 5 August 1884, Page 2
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155AN ALLEGED CURE FOR HYDROPHOBIA. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4858, 5 August 1884, Page 2
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