The case of a hydrophobia / By Dr. Fothergill. Reprinted from the fifth volume of Medical observations and inquiries. By a a [sic] society of physicians in London. With additions.

  • Fothergill, John, 1712-1780.
Date:
1778
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Credit: The case of a hydrophobia / By Dr. Fothergill. Reprinted from the fifth volume of Medical observations and inquiries. By a a [sic] society of physicians in London. With additions. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To rely on any popular means of preventing the fatal effeds of this poi- fon, whether known and generally di¬ vulged, or preferved as fecrets, which, as the Tonquin medicine, are found to be incompetent and ineffedua], - is a dangerous deception. Were it only to give one incontrover¬ tible fad in evidence againft fuch preten- fions, and of courfe to ftimulate the fa¬ culty to make a farther fearch after more effedual relief in this diflemper it would be doing fome fervice to fociety. Dr. Vaughan of Leicejler has lately pubbfhed fome cafes of the Hydrophobia which in divers refpeds confirm the inti¬ mations given in the cure referred to. And the very rational, though unfuccefsfuf efforts he made to affift his patients un¬ der this calamity, are proofs of his at¬ tention, and of the hitherto untameable nature of this lingular poifon. Let