AN ALLEGED CURE FOR HYDROPHOBIA.
A correspondent writing from Paris states that a well-attested cure for hydrophobia is just now occupying some attentioa in the medical world. The discovery is doe to the experiment of two .Russian physicians, Drs. Schmidt and Lebeden. A little girl, aged 12, was bitten on the hand by a mad dog. The wound, after being cauterised, healed 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 hoar and a-half, all the symptoms disappeared, and the child remained calm. On the next day but one the malady returned in all its distressing characteristics, difficulty in breathing and swallowing, and tetanioconvulsions. A fresh inhalation of oxygen was tried, and at the end of 45 minutes the attaok subsided, never to oeturn.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5490, 21 June 1879, Page 7
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