As all Insects abound with a Diuretick Salt, so _Cantharides_ more than any others; therefore the Learned _Bacchius_ (97) goes farther, and from the Authority of _Rhazes_ and _Joannes Damascenus_, advises to give these in Substance for many Days together. The Preparation of this Antidote, (so he calls it) is by infusing the _Cantharides_ in Soure Butter-milk Twenty Four Hours, then drying them, and with the Flower of Lentils and Wine making them up into _Troches_ of a Scruple Weight, of which one is to be taken every Day, By which means he assures us, that tho’ the Patient make bloody Urine, yet that Milk largely drank will abate that Symptom, and that an _Hydrophobia_ will be happily prevented. _Boccone_ (98) tells Us, That in _Upper Hungary_ They give _Cantharides_ to Men bitten by a Mad Dog, _Five_ to a Dose; and to _Beasts_ in greater Quantity. But of the inward Use of these Flies more in its proper Place. In short, all the _Specifics_ in this Case are such as do either absorb a peccant _Acidity_ in the Stomach, or carry it off by Urine; as _Terra Lemnia_, highly commended by _Galen_ (99), _Garlick_, _Agrimony_, _Oxylapathum_, and many others, of which a Catalogue may be seen in _S. Ardoynus_. So the _Alyssum_ or Madwort, celebrated for this use by the Ancient Physicians, as well _that_ described by _Diascorides_, which is a Species of _Leucoium_, as the other of _Galen_, which is a _Marrubium_, is very manifestly a Bitter, Stomachic, and Diuretic Plant (100). The _Lichen cinereus terrestris_, recommended in the Philosophical Transactions (101), Operates the same way. But the greatest and surest Cure of all, is frequent _Submerging_ or Ducking the Patient in Water. The first mention I find of this is in _Cornelius Celsus_ (102); whether he had it from the Ancient _Grecian_ Physicians, or it was the Discovery of his own Age, matters but little to our Purpose; certain it is, that he collected his Principal Rules of Bathing from _Cleophantus_, who, as _Pliny_ says (103), did, besides many other delightful things, first introduce the Use of Baths; As appears by comparing the Writings of the _One_ with the Fragments of the _Other_, preserv’d in the Works of _Galen_. And that from _Asclepiades_, who afterwards so far improved this Part of Physick, that he discarded almost all inward Medicines, he might learn this Management, is not improbable; for the _Hydrophobia_ (as we before took Notice) having been first regarded in the time of this great Physician, ’tis very likely that among other Advantages of his new Method, he might commend it for the Cure of so deplorable a Malady.