Alleged Successful Treatment of Hydrophobia.
A native surgeon, M. Nur3iaiula, has written a letter to the editor of the Tt nut of India, from which it w»uld tspptar that he has treated successfully a o.so having all the symptoms of hydrophobia. The treatment "adopted was the snbeutsneone injection of a sixteenth of a Rrain of atropia. The bre&th ing became infrequent (12 per minute), and pnlee slowed to the rate of 50 per minute. A quarter of a grain of morphia was injected hypodormioally. ae an antidote to the atropia. and this was repeated several times. The symptom* disappeared the third d»y after the onset of the malady, The patient wae _ a soldier, aged twenty-foui:. who had been bitten, Sy a dog the week before the symptoms resembling hydrophobia appeared. If the. case were one of hyprophobia, it must bo allowed that the period of incubation was very short; the dog is not stated to hpve been mad, and it must not be forgotten that the presence of symptoms closely resembling, fl not identioal with, hydrophobia does not prove that tbe case was one of genuine rabies. — Lancet.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2078, 31 October 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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188Alleged Successful Treatment of Hydrophobia. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2078, 31 October 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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