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underwent а long tedious allopathic treatment of mercury for

syphilis,• with по other efect than to таке him worse and

lighten his pocket of some 60 or 70 dollars. D-r Granger

to whom he was fortunately persuaded to apply, fnding the

case to be the commencement of «lues venerea», had instant

recourse to the virus itself, and, miraculous as it тау appear,

the patient was well, the •Doctor dismissed, and his bill paid

exactly in ffteen days — the whole cost of сиге being just

15 dollars, опе dollar а visit рет day. This is only опе case

of the тапу where the same disea.se in its various stayes

was cured in the same manner and with t,he like promp-

titlAe, without salivation от апу serious inconveniency to the

patient.

In scarlet fevers D-r Granger has long адо given ир

Belladonna, and substituted the virus of scarlatina itself, the

efects of which аге so sure and prompt, t.hat, while• failure

seems impossible, the сиге is completed within half the time,

required for Belladonna, when the latter is succ.essful.

Lastly, the doctor himself, afHicted with hereditary scro-

fula, by scrofula alone, taken from his own body, has been

enabled to subdue this formidable ofensive disease, which, till

then, resisted all homeopathie and other remedies, and often by

its vnsightly manisfestations prevented the doctor's quitting

his chamber and exposing to the public his inability to cure

himself.

Reasoning from analogy the doctor and myself ате convinced

that the true infallible SIMifc against hydrophobia is its own

virus; and the following experiment the only опе that has

been aforded to us, leaves scarcely а doubt ироп the subject.

Under the title of hydrophobine, D-r Herring pharmacy contains

а homeopathic preparation of this virus, тоте as а thing of

curiosity than of use, its curative properties being unknown,

and therefore not indicated. The presence of the genuine virus

was distinctly manifested by the efects of теге smell ироп the

nerves and throat; and accordingly, а уоипд dog was inoculated