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friend, the celebrated Tiſſot, with whom I bave had many and ſolemn conſultations on the ſubjeÆ. I do not pretend there is any novelty in this remedy; on the contrary, nothing is more common than its partial and deſultory exhibition, whence only its inſufficient effets. The fallibility of ail remedies for the huian patient muſt not diſcourage our efforts, which ought to be un- remitting. On the Ormſkirk,‘and other Engliſh and foreign quack medicines, on ſea-bathing, on exſeGion of the better Part, and even on mercurial courſes, it is well known no abſolute de- pendance can be placed; but it is yet probable that no articles of the Materica Medica affôrd ſuch rational hopes as mercury, camphor, and fulphur; and that exſe@Æion baving been per- formed, or the aual cautery uſed, no courſe, in ſome conſtitu- tions, would be more ſucceſsful than repeated ſalivations.

Of the horrid conſequences of the bite of a mad dog, the facts are innumerable. About ſixty years ago a young man, in this country, having received a bite, to which no attention was paid, and being married fix months afterwards, was, on the wedding night, ſeized with the moft exalted rabies, and murdered his bride, by literally tearing out her entrails with his nails and teeth.— A fact of ſimilar horror, if T am rightly informed, has, not many years ſince, happened in Scotland. A man tore his wife to pieces, in the ſame way, and was himſelf found dead in the morning, his brains having been beat out againſt the walls, What is ſingular, in this caſe, the rabies was attributed to the man?’s having eaten eels, from a pond, in which had been thrown the carcaſe of a mad dog: the circumſtance has given the inhabitants of the diftri& an extreme averſion to eels, which is ſaid to be ſtrength- ened by the obſervation, that the eel has been ſeen to intercopulate with the water-adder.

EMANUEL EUPEN VANDER BoRCcK. Margate, 16th July, 1800./

———RCL RE IEEE Pita To the Editor of the Commercial and Agricultural Magazine. SERS

Î was greatly ſurpriſed to find,(in almoſt ev ery One of them) the implements uſed in Agriculture of a different torm and make: rarely can you find any two adjoining counties, whoſe implements(in general uſe) are not of a diferent form, though the quality of their lands is nearly the ſame.

I ihould be glad to learn, from ſome of your numerous and

N travelling through the different counties of this kingdom,

intelligent correſpondents, through your intereſting Magazine, what may be the cauſe of this great variety of forms? Whe- ther it ariſes from the exertion of genius to improve, or from the extreme repugnance with which Improvements are received, or from any other cauſe?