“Let the patient be blooded at the arm nine or ten ounces. Take of the herb called in Latin, _lichen cinereus terrestris_; in English _ash-coloured ground liverwort_, cleaned, dried, and powdered half an ounce. Of _black pepper powdered, two drachmes_, mix these well together, and divide the powder into four doses, one of which must be taken every morning fasting, for four mornings successively in half a pint of cow’s milk warm. After these four doses are taken, the patient must go into the cold bath, or a cold spring, or river, every morning fasting for a month: he must be dipt all over, but not stay in (with his head above water) longer than half a minute, if the water be very cold. After this he must go in three times a week a fortnight longer.” But to speak my real sentiments, I have no great opinion of this recipe; yet as other methods may be pursued along with it, I thought proper to insert it, as in a malady of this consequence, nothing should be left undone that is practicable with propriety. Celsus I think was the first who recommended cold bathing[14]; but indeed to a degree of drowning and reviving the patient again alternately. In the mania itself, it carries much reason with it in this miserable extremity, for the poor wretch at the eve of expiring, a spectacle of horror, may as well run the risque of drowning; and besides, the shock that plunging gives to the whole system, may probably work an alteration in the malignant habit.—But alas! when the hydrophobia has actually commenced; Death, and death only—can give relief! Yet let it ever be a maxim, (and especially with a seaman) _never_ to forsake _hope_; for _despair_ is only a punishment reserved for the damned. I repeat it; no means should be left untried, that has the least prospect of recovery. Footnote 14: _Unicum remedium est, nec opinantem in piscinam non ante ei provisam projicere, et, si natandi scientiam non habet, modo mersum bibere pati, modo attollere; si habet, interdum deprimere, ut invitus quoque aqua satietur: sic enim simul et sitis, et aquæ metus tollitur. Lib. v. cap. 27._ But to avoid being tedious, I will proceed to the method I would have pursued in an accident of that terrible kind. If you by the before description find that the dog who gave the wound is actually mad, then without a moment’s delay let the piece bit, be cut fairly out; if that is not practicable, apply immediately the ointment made of _mercurial ointment_ and _precipitate_, No. XXI. Over which apply _mercurial plaister_. Give one of the pills No. X. every morning and night, and continue this course for a whole month. Let the plaister remain on the place a good while after the sore is healed up.