dipt in the sea, yet died of the hydrophobia some months after.—Dr. Fothergill, in his Additional Remarks on the treatment of per∣sons bit by mad animals, addressed to the editors of the Medical Observations, &c. says: "I have heard of diverse instances,P. 290. and I have no doubt but you are as well satisfied as myself; and perhaps from your own observation, that this process (sea-bathing) is by no means a preser∣vative from the fatal consequences of the bite of mad animals."—Desault, a physician at Bourdeaux, in his treatise sur la Rage gives his opinion on this subject in the following words: "When I am applied to by a person bit by a mad animal, I order him to bathe in the sea, though I have no dependance on this remedy, since the many proofs we have had of its inefficacy in the course of the present year."—Choisel, a Jesuit re∣siding at Pondicherry, in a pamphlet pub∣lished at Paris in 1756, in which he relates many examples of canine madness cured by mercurial friction, says: "Bathing in the sea has hitherto been considered as an infallible preservative from this disorder. My own experience proves 0