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Excerpt from Report of a Case of Hydrophobia: Extracted From the Report of T. W. Blatchford, M.D., In Transactions of the American Medical Association, for the Year 1856; With an Appendix, Containing the Report of a Committee of Citizens of Lancaster, Pa., On the Efficacy of Stoy's Cure
It must be at once perceived that my patient was a woman of extraordinary resolution and firmness, and knowing this, I urged her to take her powders regularly in spite of the difficulty. She said, ' Doctor, I suffer very much from the attempt; but I will take them. Her husband remarked to me that he believed her illness proceeded from the bite of the dog. She replied, No; it's rheuma tism; I'll soon be better of the spasms. Although she seemed unwilling to permit her mind to believe it, yet I think she was perfectly conscious of the truth of her husband's opinion.
After ordering a continuance of the medicine already prescribed, and the application of a large blister along the course of the spine.
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