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I have thought it my duty to bring the value of lunar-caustic as a preventive of hydrophobia prominently before your notice, and to pay a tribute of respect to the memory of Mr Youatt a man of talent and of genius. Never kill a dog supposed to be mad who has bitten either a child, or any one else, until it has, past all doubt, been ascertained whether he be really mad or not.
A bite from a mad cat ought to be treated precisely in the same manner-namely, with the lunar-caustic as for a mad dog. Hydrophobia was by our forefathers graphically called water-fright: it was well named, for the horror of swallowing water is, by an hydrophobic patient, most intense, and is the leading symptom of this fell and incurable disease.
With the sauce for the game, Mrs. Turner mixed a quantity of cantharides, and poisoned the pork with lunar-caustic. As stated on the trial, Overbury took in this manner poison enough to have poisoned twenty men; but his constitution was strong, and he still lingered. Franklin, the apothecary, confessed that he prepared with Dr.
Now and then we know he has a caustic thing or two to say about women; but it is lunar-caustic for a wart. Goethe did not like this indiscriminate and democratic temper.
He and his assistants had been repeatedly bitten by rabid dogs; but knowing that he was in possession of an infallible preventive remedy, he never dreaded the wounds inflicted either upon himself or upon his assistants. Mr Youatt never knew lunar-caustic, if properly and immediately applied, to fail. It is, of course, only a preventive.
Forman seven different sorts of poisons; viz. aquafortis, arsenic, mercury, powder of diamonds, lunar-caustic, great spiders, and cantharides. Overbury held out so long that Rochester became impatient, and in a letter to Lady Essex, expressed his wonder that things were not sooner despatched. Orders were immediately sent by Lady Essex to the keeper to finish with the victim at once.
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