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NEW JERSEY MEDICAL REPORTER.

VOL. I. FIRST MONTH, (JANUARY,) 1848.

No. 2.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

A REPORT OF THREE CASES OF HYDROPHOBIA, SUBMITTED TO THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY, AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF 1847.

BY WM. PIERSON, M. D.

Impelled by the consideration that it is the duty of the profession, to communicate to the public, the results of all cases of disease, which are of rare occurrence, and of a serious nature-a duty which I apprehend is too often neglected-I proceed to redeem a pledge given to the Society, to communicate the history of three cases of Hydrophobia, which came under my observation the preceding summer.

An apology is due for the haste with which the duty is discharged; other engagements having intervened and encroached much upon the time allotted to the preparation of this essay.

In presenting these cases, I entertain no idea of throwing any additional light upon the pathology, or diagnostic symptoms or treatment of the disease in question. They accord with the description of the group of symptoms generally given by medical writers; and in their result, afford additional confirmation of the opinion advanced by one of the most able and common-sense