Rutland Herald

Hydrophobia.—The following is said to be an extract of a letter from an Italian gentleman at Venice to a friend. It appears plausible; but as to the fact, that so simple a remedy should prove so effective, we cannot say. When a disease exists for which no cure is known, it is well enough to notice such remedies as may from time to time be suggested. Hydrophobia is such a dreadful disorder, and has hitherto so baffled all medical skill, no harm could be done, if a case should unfortunately occur, in trying the remedy mentioned below.

'If you were here,' says the letter, 'you would be much pleased with a discovery made at Udine, the capital of Friuli, a small province. A poor man lying under the frightful tortures of hydrophobia was cured by some draughts of vinegar given him by mistake instead of another potion. A physician of Padua, called Count Leonissa, got intelligence of this event at Udine, and tried the same remedy upon a patient that was brought to the Paduan Hospital, administered him a pound of vinegar in the morning, another at noon, and a third at sunset; and the man was speedily and perfectly cured.'