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A12656	A declaration of such greiuous accidents as commonly follow the biting of mad dogges, together with the cure thereof, by Thomas Spackman Doctor of Physick	Spackman, Thomas.	1613 (1613)	STC 22977; ESTC S117713	45,532	96

bitten place according to the Greeke writers a day and a night but Isaac and Haly abbas thinke a night sufficient Auicen onely an hower of which opinion is Gentilis if the kernell be applied presently after the byting but otherwise not Some againe say if the wound be great and bleed much that an hower is sufficient because that in great wounds a nut will much sooner drink vp the poyson than in smal Therfore the smaller wounds require a longer time When it is taken of cast it to Hens who if they eat it and dye the next day after it is a manifest signe that the dog was mad or as some say if they refuse to eat it Or take a peece of bread wet in the bleeding wound of one bitten then offer the same to some other hungry dog to eat if he refuse to taste of it that is taken for a very had signe Yet some thinke that these are not sufficient tryalls to repose trust vpon and therefore it were better to note diligently whether the byting dog be afraid of water or not for that is accounted a certaine signe of madnesse if he feare and refuse the sight of it This kind of feare is named of the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is for the most part an inseparable signe of a mad dog or of any other thing that is mad by the byting of a dog Neither can they abide the sight of any thing that is bright as to behold a looking glasse or such like Among dogs such are noted to be most apt to become mad as are swiftest of foot fullest of agility in body leanest of constitution and in colour red or blacke A man bitten of a mad dog first becommeth sad and full of imaginations after the poyson beginneth once to worke muttering and talking to himselfe and being asked a question answereth litle to the purpose He is afraid where is no cause of feare his sleepe weareth away he feeleth gry pings in his stomacke and shunneth the companie of men his countenance becommeth wild and gastly hee is exceeding thirstie his voice groweth hoarse his eyes red and fierie flying the light and somtime weepeth without any manifest cause his face swettie hee is very prone to anger more than hee was wont to be his minde is far out of order For the venome hauing made it selfe a way through the small veines and arteries into the great in processe of time getteth vp to the braine where it peruerteth and corrupteth the imagination reason and memorie Yea sometime it so infecteth the synnowes as hee is vexed with grieuous crampes and cruell convulsions and in the end forceth him so far out of his wits as hee will offer violence both to himselfe and all that he is in companie withall especially with his teeth like a dog and will howle and barke after a doggish manner fearing the sight of water or any bright thing and as some Writers affirme imagining that therein hee seeth a dogge which of all creatures hee feareth and abhorreth most Beside these remembred notes Salius mentioneth one which he auoucheth to be infallible although neuer obserued before by any but himselfe which is a feeling of some kind of paine in the bitten place though the wound haue been healed long before For when the bitten body beginneth to grow into madnesse he sensibly feeleth a paine though not very great in the place that he was bitten in which creeping from place to place about three or fower dayes after it beginneth or a little more ascendeth to the brayne where it causeth a kind of giddynesse and a certaine manner of confusion withall whereby the sicke bodie beginneth to stagger and reele this way and that way and shortly after falleth starke mad This sensible feeling of paine in the bitten place when the mad humour beginneth to stirre which Petrus Salius calleth an infallible note of this malady neuer before obserued by any but himselfe as he sayth seemeth to be verified by a story of a mad body related by an excellent Physition called D. Abel Roscius of Lausanna in an epistle of his to Guiliel Fabritius that notable Chirurgion of our time The story as he hath reported it is as followeth A certaine very honest Matron the daughter of a famous Doctor and married not past two yeeres before to a Nobleman one wel knowen to me and very neere allied as she passed one day through the citie Anno Domini 1581. was suddenly set vpon by a madde dogge and bitten in the left arme The neighbours and other that were in her company being much grieued at this mishap kild the dogge presently and without delay were learned Physitians sent for who prescribed exquisite remedies causing them to be applyed to the part affected accordingly not omitting the administration of wholsome antidotes and apt preseruatiues inwardly The bitten arme was streightly bound about the wound and locall medicines of drawing facultie for the bringing forth of the venome were applied After which a Chirurgion seared the place with a hot iron so that within a few dayes space the woman as it pleased God was quite healed or seemed so to be no hurt appearing in her arme nor scarce any scarre perceiued neither was there any suspition of the least iot of poyson remaining But marke I pray you what followed In the seuenth yeere after it was healed shee was afflicted with much more cruell and grieuous accidents In the arme that was bitten shee felt a most intollerable paine like as it had beene torne and gnawed with the teeth of dogs Very shortly after she became furious distract in minde full of griefe and sorrow voyd of sleepe vexed with vnquenchable thirst and after this with a feuer and exceeding decay of strength abhorring meat extreamly but not drink neither did she refuse such liquid things as might asswage her thirst We thought her hard at deaths dore because wee saw no hope of life or health in her Yet so notable remedies were with all diligence administred to her by Physitians and so well she was attended by her domesticals as beyond all hope shee recouered health againe in few dayes Seuen yeeres after this inuasion and in the fourteenth yeere after the dogges byting and in the third yeere after the death of her husband shee began againe to be most miserably tortured her fit still beginning in her left arme She felt extreame paines was vexed with vomiting and incredible belching enduring all the symptomes that are wont to proceed from burnt choler want of sleepe and exceeding thirstinesse In the bitten place shee felt most cruell prickings shootings and exquisite paines yet by good meanes she was againe holpen I being still present with her and seemed perfectly cured Howbeit I deemed that her griefes were rather dulled and as it were brought a sleepe then quite extinguished although she continued in this good state six yeares together as afterward it appeared For in the twentieth yeere after her byting her former griefes

Thus dried let them be kept for future vses but so as they be renewed euery yeere When there is occasion to vse them take of each sort equall quantitie and beat them to a very fine powder Of this powder giue to such as be bitten halfe a dram euery day fasting either out of a spone being mixt with the doble waight of sugar or with wine or sidar or broth or tempered with butter or hony in forme of an Opiate three howers before meat Although a dram and halfe or two drams at once be sufficient either for man or any kinde of beast though cruelly bitten yet it will not be a misse to proceed to three or fower drams especially if it be long since the partie was bitten or that he be growne into hydrophobie If he be hydrophobicke or mad let him be boūd that he cannot slacke or doe hurt and then temper this powder with wine or other conuenient liquor and powre it downe his throat whether he will or not putting something into his mouth to hould it open This may best be done in the intermission of his madnes or fury But to one that is newly bitten there needs no more to be done then first to wipe and drie the wound either with a sponge or some drie linen cloth and then to bath it with wine or hydromell in which halfe a dram of this powder is dissolued This should be done twise or thrise euery day then lay on some ointment or plaster such as is wont to be laid on other wounds and so suffer it to heale without any feare of hydrophobie While this practise is thus ordred there wil be no need either to alter the ordinarie diet or to keepe the house or to take any purging medicine except the bitten body be vexed with hydrophobie before he be taken in hand For that being remoued the humors of the body that bee distempered should be amended partly by purging and partly by good and wholsome diet This noble remedie was first receiued from a man of great nobilitie called Iacobus Syluanus Lord of Pyrou as a thing worthie to be dignified by the authoritie and patronage of true nobilitie and dinulged by Iulianus Palmarius a noble minded Physitian Admirable must needs be accoūted the operation of this medicine whē it being hot in tēperature is of force against hot malignant continuall feuers accompanied with most fearefull symptomes such as commonly follow the the byting of mad dogges and in allages sexes of what complexion soeuer and also in the helping of bruit beasts Palmarius saith he neuer knew it faile in curing either the new bitten or such as haue not had aboue two or three fits of hydrophobie This therfore being of so wōderfull efficacie against this maladie all that I haue set downe before concerning the cure heereof out of ancient and late writers might seeme needlesse were it not that this is not like to be alwayes in a readinesse in all places or peraduenture not prepared as it ought to be These things considered I thought it good to ioyne both sorts of cure together that where the one is wanting the other may be vsed And after these so many much commended and experienced medicines set downe by learned writers for the cure of this disease I will communicate one more much commended vnto me from a friend who reporteth that this medicine hath beene often experienced with most happy successe in the curing of wounds caused by the byting of madde dogges And is made as followeth ℞ Capitum Allij ℥ ij fol Ruta M j. stanni puluerizati ℥ ij Theriaca opt Androm ℥ iij. Boile all these together in muscudine so much as will suffice in Balneo Mariae the vessell wherein they are being close stopped or if you cannot get wine take so much Ale as will suffice to boile them in and when they are well boyled straine them and let the grieued patient drinke ℥ vij thereof at a time taking so much a time at three seueral times within 24 houres The first draught to be taken so soone as possible you can make this medicine readie after the patient is bitten then take the second draught eight houres after that and the third eight houres after that and so to continue the giuing thereof euery eight houres for the space of 7. or 8. dayes together Or you may vse it longer if you see any cause to suspect danger and towards the end you may change it from euery 8. houres to euery 12. houres And you must alwaies applie vnto the wound bitten with the dogge the feces or dregges that were left of the drinke after the strayning thereof and it must be applied to the wound very warme And you must alwaies heere obserue that you are not to apply either this medicine or any other vnto the wound vntill you haue by some of the meanes before named clensed the wound from that venemous slauer and filth left there by the mad dogges byting by boxing-glasses with scarrifying and by washing the wound as before hath beene taught Now for conclusion I suppose it wil be expected that after this my demonstration and publishing of other mens opinions aduises counselles practizes and experiments for the helpe of this infirmitie I should also bring to light such peculiar knowledge obseruation and experience as my selfe haue had at any time in dealing with this kinde of subiect To whose expectation I answere that although I haue beene a practiser in Physicke aboue thirtie yeeres and haue dealt mith many sorts of infirmities yet in al this time I ingenuously and plainly protest and confesse that neuer hitherto hath any cures of this condition come to my hand neither haue I knowen that any Physitian of mine acquaintance hath beene called to counsell for it The reason heereof as I conceiue is because the byting of a mad dogge in all places where I haue beene hath so little beene regarded and feared as they think it not of such moment that it may need the helpe of a Physitian But when any such thing hapneth they either apply some triuiall medicine that they haue a good opinion of to the bitten place or post them with what speed they can to the sea though it be three or fower dayes before they can get thither and then they thinke them as soundly holpen as any Physitian or Chirurgian can doe And truly till by the reading of many writers of great knowledge and experience I found it to be a matter of more regard then so slightly to be passed ouer I esteemed in a manner as lightly of it as they But now hauing offred a perspectiue glasse to all such as be willing to accept of it for the better looking into the consequences and dependances of these kinds of bytings I doubt not but the wiser sort of such as shall haue the perusall of this small pamphlet will as occasion may be ministred more seriously thinke of it then peraduenture they haue hitherto done