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produced any laudable matter, now began to pain him violently. He had the horror of water, foaming at the mouth, and convulfions; and on the eleventh day of the fame month, was, according to the mistaken, cruel cuftom, fmothered with a feather bed.

The terrors of Mr. and Mrs. Webfter were not to be defcribed; the indeed had felt no evil fymptoms, and the wound in her thigh, which was but fmall, had cicatrized. But the husband had found the averfion for liquids increase from the day before Edwards died, and they both expected the fame dreadful catastrophe. The evil effects of this accident, were become the topic of public converfation. I was then at Deptford (about three miles diftance) when I heard the melancholy ftory. As I had read the treatife of Dr. Default, and had made fome reflectjons on the cause of canine madness, I was refolved to go and offer my affiftance. I came to the house about eleven in the forenoon, of the thirtieth day of April. I found Mr. Webster tied in his bed, with a moft haggard look, a tremulous and unequal pulfe, and delirium. The neighbours had proposed fmothering him alfo, but the affection of his wife prevented it, the declaring he fhould live God's appointed time. The condition of the man, the tears of the woman, who expected every minute that the fame fate would attack her, the cries of four children round the bed, and the grief of his neighbours, all prefented a moft diftrefsful fcene, and his being fo far gone gave me little hopes of fuccefs; however I thought it my duty

to make a trial.

As I brought fome of the abovementioned ointment with me, I began by arming my hand with a bladder, and rubbed a drachm and an half of the ointment into his fhoulder, and about the wound, the lips of which were livid and callous. The woman having no fymptoms, and her wound being cicatrized, I contented myself with applying only half a drachm on her thigh, and took my leave, encouraging them to hope for the beft, and defiring them to repeat the friction next day at the fame hour.

I returned on the third day in the evening (April 15) having been unavoidably detained till then. I was charmed to find Mr. Webster had loft his delirium, was become quite fenfible; that his

throat and jaws were fwelled, and that he had fpit near half a pint fince the third rubbing. His hydrophobia had fo far decreased, that he had taken three or four cups of broth, tho' ftill with great difficulty. As I feared his spitting might augment too much at the fourth rubbing, I ordered him a glyfter of a decoction of wormwood, fal gem and oil, and likewise directed them to throw in a glyfter of strong broth, every four hours, 'till his fwallowing became free.

My directions were punctually obferved; he was anointed with a drachm only of the ointment, on the fourth, fifth, and fixth days. I omitted the frictions for three days, and they repeated them every other day for fix days more, by which time he was able to drink and walk about, and his wound, which had fuppurated from the fecond day, was quite healed; he anointed ftill fix times, once every third day, and was perfectly recovered.

Mrs. Webster never had any symptom, but the fear and terror, which went off when she saw her husband's furprizing amendment; yet fhe continued the ointment for twenty one days, every other day.

Remarks.

1. As neither of the people took any medicine, nor made ufe of any other application, their cure must be attributed folely to the ointment.

2. The four perfons having been all bathed in the falt water, it was evident it did not prevent the disease in the two who died; and it is equally certain, it did not in the least contribute to the cure of the two who recovered.

3. The child was firft feized with the madness, and at the interval of only fixteen days, and died on the third day after. This arofe from his being bitten in an uncovered part, where the venom could more eafily penetrate; and being of more lax fibres, than the other patients.

4. William Edwards was next affected, twenty days after the bite; the wound in his leg being large, with a confiderable loss of substance, rendered him more fufceptible of the venom, than Mr. Webster, who was but flightly bitten in the fhoulder, and on whom the fymptoms did not appear till the twenty seventh day.

5. The absence of the fymptoms in Mrs. Webster, was owing to her being bitten through two petticoats, and her gown, which doubtless imbibed the great

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eft part, if not all of the dog's faliva, before the teeth reached the flesh; and I much question, if fhe would have been attacked with the diforder, if no precaution had been used, as the only way the was affected was by a terror, which might arife as well from the melancholy fcene before her, as from the bite.

CASE II.

A young lady in Plymouth, in the month of February, 1750, had her upper lip bitten by a favourite little lap dog; the wound was but trifling, and as The thought it was done in play, the took no heed of it, applying only a little lipfalve. But two days after the dog was perceived to be mad, and was hanged; and fhe began to dread the fatal confequences; the bathed in the fea, but about the tenth day, fhe was fatigued with frightful dreams; her imagination wandered, he became melancholy, and hated the light.

The thirteenth day, her fymptoms continued, and her eyes began to have a peculiar wildness, yet the hydrophobia had not come on; I faw her the fame day, and endeavoured to chear her fpirits, by promifing her a cure, which from the foregoing cafe, I had good reafon to expect. I began with a friction of half a drachm of the ointment about the part, repeated every other day, for fix days, then every third day, for nine days, and every fourth day, for twelve more; fhe took alfo the powder of Palmarius, the fymptoms went gradually off, and no others intervened, fo that he was perfectly well at the end of twenty feven days.

I could quote eleven other cafes, but as they were not diffimilar from thefe two, I omit them; thinking the above fufficient to establish my theory, and fix the credit of the propofed method of cure. If any opportunity of trying it fhould occur, I hope an account of its fuccefs will be sent to the printer of this Magazine, for the benefit and fatisfaction of the public.

Dublin, Oct. 1. 1774.

A Copy of a Letter, on a proper Education for young Ladies; addressed to a Gentleman, who was about to undertake the Tuition of a Female Pupil.

My Dear Sir,

Have of late met with fo much trouble in an affair, to which you are no Stranger, that, for many days I have not

been able to set about any thing, which might be of use to myself, or ferviceable to my friends; however, I have at last conftrained myself to fit down, in order to give you my thoughts upon the subject of your first letter; which I fhall do with all that freedom, which becomes our ftrict and dear friendship.

If Mifs-is not a lady of very extraordinary parts, then you are like to have a great deal of trouble and uneasiness, and fhe in the mean time, will reap no advantage by it. 'Tis not enough, that the is a girl of a lively, fprightly underftanding; for fuch the may be, and yet be incapable of receiving any confiderable improvement, from a long course of reading and ftudy. The heads and underftandings of women are of a very different make, from those of men; and a lad of very ordinary flow parts, will make a greater progress in learning, and knowledge, than the generality of girls, even fuch as are reputed very fenfible. Women have not that ftrength of body which is neceffary to bear the fatigue and toil of reading and thinking; they want that fteadiness of mind, and reach of understanding, which are requifite to make them miftreffes of learning and sciences.

But I will fuppofe Mifs-to be a lady of very uncommon understanding, and capable of all the knowledge contained in those books, marked out for her by your friend. And then, I beg leave to afk, to what wife or good purpose does all this profufion of learning tend? why truly to render her very vain and fantaftic-to deprive her of her chearfulness, and sprightliness-to make her a grave, plodding and pedantic animal. To turn

's daughter into a meer Missor a downright Mrs.-To expose her to be a standing jeft, to be the very meanest of her own fex, and the averfion of every wife and judicious perfon of ours-above all, to make her a moft awkward, uncomfortable wife, whenever it fhall be her fate to marry. Let us fuppofe her hus→ band comes home in an evening, fatigued with business, or ruffled and chagrined with fome crofs accident abroad-he wants to be diverted; why then, in order to cheer him, down comes my lady in the dress of a flattern, (as ftudious ladies generally are,) with face all pale and haggard, and eyes all blurted with reading-lugging a huge folio of Greek, or Afiatic history along with her; then

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fhews him a moft delightful story-how Atyages feasted Harpagus with venifon pafty of his own fon's haunches-how happy the maids of Babylon, and Cyprus were, who were all obliged to be public whores, before they were allowed to marry. How lufty a lover Olympia had, when a dragon lay with her, and begot a bully, who over-ran, fought, and conquered the world; moft excellent entertainment, for a fplenetic husband, indeed! But folly and jefting apart; men and women were defigned by nature, to move in very different fpheres; the government of empires, the policies and intrigues of states, the interefts of nations, the laws and conftitutions of countries, arts and sciences, the business of the world abroad, and confequently the knowledge of geography and hiftory, are all the province of men. On the other hand, the management of domeftic affairs, the fweetnefs and prettiness of conversation; all the foft arts of endearment, are the proper care and concern of women; and to thefe, the knowledge of geography and maps, of Afiatic, Greek, and Roman hiftories, of pantheons and heathen mythologies, will be very far from contributing. In a word, I fhould think, that a lady, who employed her time in fuch a course of ftudies, just as ridiculous, as that gentleman, who fhould learn to flower or embroider, to make a shirt, or a tanfy pudding.

I need fay little on the fubject of romances, because the gentleman, your friend, owns that he is fingular in his opinion of them; that is, he owns that the univerfal fense of mankind is a gainst him; and pray how came mankind to be fo unanimous in their opinion of the evil tendency of romances, if they had not felt in themfelves fome inconveniencies, from that fort of reading, or had not obferved the fatal effects of it in others? I believe there are very few thinking, obferving men, who can't tell you of ladies ruined by fuch ftudies, from their own experience.

It was fo Mifs was ruined. I know a lady of very loose character, and who (I believe) is now upon the town; and her aunt affured me, fhe was first mifled by reading romances; if you have any doubt in this point, you need only read the first forty or fifty pages of the countess of D'Anois' memoirs of her own life, and you will be fatisfied.

To affirm that romances direct the paf

fions of ladies to proper objects, and confine them within the ftricteft bounds of duty and difcretion, is to say (begging the gentleman's pardon) what I think is not true; but if it were, is in my opinion of very little moment. The paffion defcribed in romances is eagerly imbibed, but the heroine's nice conduct under it is little attended to, and less practised by a young, tender, warm female reader. Alas! what avails it to have read that Clotilda or Samarcanda behaved fo, or fo to this or that lover, under fuch or fuch circumstances, when all these grave, wife reflections are forgotten or loft to her, in the tumult and transports of an early, violent, wild paffion."

I would not be fo understood, as if I thought it impoffible, for a young lady to read romances, without receiving a confiderable prejudice from them; but then I judge it fo extremely hazardous, that I think every prudent man ought to keep his daughter from fuch books, as much as he can. There are some conftitutions fo peculiarly happy, that if they would often go into a pelt house, they would efcape the infection; and yet, it would be no point of difcretion, for a man wantonly and unneceffarily to force his daughter to frequent such places.

For the fame reason, that I diflike romances, I would not have the lady read Ovid's Metamorphofis; 'tis almost one continued chain of love ftories from beginning to end. I know it here may be faid, that boys are allowed to read it at school, and yet no danger apprehended from it. But then I muft tell you, that beside the neceffity they are under to read it, in order to understand the Greek and Latin poets, (which I cannot think young ladies have any concern in) and befide the perpetual fevere school drudgery, which in a great measure keep boys from impreffions of love, I fay befide these the fouls of girls are fufceptible of much earlier and stronger paffions, than thofe of boys, and therefore to be more cautiously and ftrictly guarded.

You must remember always to behave towards Mifs with the greatest referve imaginable; otherwife fhe will be in the greatest danger of conceiving a paffion for you; don't laugh at this, for there is a great deal more in it, than you may probably think at firft fight.-If the has a high relifh for knowledge and wifdom, honour and integrity, the will be

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apt to have the fame high relifh for a man, who (the thinks) poffeffes them all in a very great degree; and while fhe with pleasure drinks your inftructions, fhe may infenfibly drink in a paffion, for the dear inftructor, in whom fhe fees an example of every generous fentiment, with which you endeavour to inspire her.

A Hiftory of the Fourth Seffion of the Second Parliament of Ireland, in the Keign of his prefent Majefty, begun on Tuesday the 12th of October, 1773, and ended June 2, 1774. (Continued from fage 535.)

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Aving brought up the proceedings of the house to the 4th of Nov. we fall now continue the lift of accounts and papers ordered in and prefented from page 334. No. 84. to the day of the recefs, and then go on with the debates and proceedings for that period.

On Mondy, Nov. 8. were prefented to the house, according to order.

No. 85. The amount of the annual increase and decrease of the Civil Eftablishment for five years preceding the 19th day of August, 1767, and alfo for five years fubfequent to the faid 19th of August 1767.

86. An account of the money received by Mr. Stephen Wybrantz (agent to the fifth and eighth regiments of dragoons) by virtue of King's letters, for two years, ending Lady-day, 1773, and the application thereof.

87. A lift of all the military penfions, diftinguishing the perfons to whom, the terms for which they were granted, with the dates of their commencement.

88. The amount of the annual increase of the Military Eftablishment of Ireland for five years preceding the 19th of August 1767, (excluding the increafed annual military charges during the time of war, and excluding the annual increased half-pay, at the reduction in 1763) and alfo for five years fubfequent to the faid 19th of August 1767, excluding the annual expences of the augmentation.

89. A ftate of the annual increafe and decrease under the feveral heads upon the military establishment of Ireland on the 19th of August 1767, to the 30th of November 1772.

90. The amount of the military efta blishment of Ireland on the 19th of August 1767, and the amount of the

faid eftablishment on the 30th of November, 1772, with the difference in the amount of the faid eftablishment at the faid period.

9!. An account of the particular favings on the military establishment of Ireland, amounting to 178,374l. 1IS. Ind. 3f.

On Tuesday Nov. 9, were prefented,

92. An account of the balances due by the feveral collectors of the revenue at Michaelmas 1773, which are applicable to discharge the arrears due at that time upon the civil and military establishments, and other charges of go

vernment:

93. An abftract of the produce of the branches of the revenues of Ireland applicable to public fervices, from Ladyday 1762, to Lady-day 1767, and alfo from Lady-day 1767, to Lady-day 1772, and the produce of the two periods compared.

94. An abftra&t of the feveral fums granted and paid for public works, and for improvement of the trade and manufactures of Ireland, by the money bills of 1761, 1763, and 1765; by King's letters on addreffes from the Commons in 1762, 1764, and 1766; and for premiums and bounties under acts of parliament from Lady-day 1762, to Ladyday 1757.

95. An abstract of the feveral fums granted and paid to public works, and for the improvement of the trade and manufactures of Ireland, by the money bills of 1767, 1769, and 1771, by King's letters on addrelles from the Commons in 1768, 1770, and 1772, and for premiums and bounties under acts of parliament from Lady-day 1767, to Ladyday 1772.

96. The debt of the nation, as it ftood at Lady-day 1763, at Lady-day 1767, and at Lady-day 1773, together with accounts of the fums applicable to the payment of thofe debts refpectively in the hands of collectors, paymafters of the corn premiums, and in arrear on the revenue.

97. The total amount of the additional duties unappropriated, granted by the houfe of Commons from the 25th of October 1760.

98. An account of the total amount of all premiums, bounties and parliamentary payments, granted and made fince his Majefty's reign.

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99. A list of all the officers, of eve

ry denomination, which have been placed upon the revenue eftablishment, or incidents in the excife department, in confequence of the late divifion of the boards, with the respective salaries annexed to each.

On Wednesday November 10, the house received

100. An account of all charges that have attended the new boards of excife and cuftoms, diftinguishing each expence, and for what paid from the 3d of February 1772, to the 26th of October

1773.

101. An account of all charges that have attended the appointment of four new furveyors general, from their refpective appointments to the 26th of October 1773.

102. An account of all the offices and additional charges on the eftablishment of the commiffioners of excife, during the period of Ld. Vifc. Townshend's administration.

103. An account of the balances in the hands of the vice-treasurers, the 29th of September laft, diftinguifhing that which is applicable to the discharge of fuch arrears as were then due upon the civil and military establishments and extraordinary charges, from the balance due on appropriated funds.

On Thursday Nov. 11. were prefented 104. An account of all fums of money granted by parliament or King's letters for the ufe of the foundling-hofpital and workhouse, from the 24th of June 1751, to the 29th of September 1773.

105. An account of all the new offices and additional charges on the eftablishment in the department of the commiffioners of the customs, during the period of Lord Vifc. Townshend's adminiftration.

106. A particular account of all fums of money, expended under the head of barracks, King's letters and Concordatum, by the treasurer to the barrack board, for two years ending Lady-day,

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110. The number of certificates of conformity, filed in the court of chancery in Ireland, from the time of the patting the firit popery law, to the time of the paffing the fecond popery law.

111. The like account from the paffing the act of parliament, to prevent the further growth of popery, in the eighth year of the reign of queen Anne (1709) to the 8th day of Nov. 1773.

112. The warrants for the feveral payments, under the head of military contingencies, from the 25th of March, 1771, to the 25th of March, 1773.

On Saturday, Nov. 13, the following accounts were brought into the houfe:

113. An account of the feveral fums received from the 25th of March, 1771, to the 25th of March, 1773, on coaches, chariots, and other carriages, appropriated to the encouragement of tillage.

114. An account of the feveral fums received, from the 25th of March, 1771, to the 25th of March, 1773, on account of the duties, payable for coaches, and other carriages, and which are applicable to the difcharge of the loan.

115. A deed, and book wherein are contained an account of Primate Boulter's fund, as it ftood at the time of his death, with the annual increase fince that time, with the application of it, diftinguifhing each year, as alfo in whofe hands fuch fums as remained unapplied from time to time were depofited, and at what rate of intereft.

On Monday, Nov.15, were prefented,

116. The books wherein are entered the government's orders, to the commiffioners and overfeers of the barracks, from June, 1759, to June, 1773.

117. An account of the application of all fums of money, received by William Montgomery, Efq; (agent to several regiments) by virtue of king's letters, for the two years, ending Lady-day, 1773.

118. An account of the number of effective men, commiffion and non-commiflion officers included, which have re

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