The Loungers Common Place Book Or Miscellaneous Anecdotes Vol 2 Of 2

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ISBN 13 : 9781527616813
Total Pages : 382 pages
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Download or read book The Lounger's Common-Place Book, Vol. 2 of 2 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lounger's Common-Place Book, Vol. 2 of 2: Or Miscellaneous Collections in History, Criticisms, Biography, Poetry, and Romance Mad dog, bite of, a dreadful and deplorable calamity, for which human art affords no remedy, notwithstanding the interested puffs of unprincipled quacks, and the mercenary declarations of empirics more regular] bred. The indelible impression which a number of accidents of this kind once made on my mind, when death in its most horrible and terrifying form took place, in spite of every effort and in eve instance, will, I hope, excuse my introducing such an article in a wor of this kind. But truth cannot be too strongly inculcated nor repeated too often and I think it of the highest importance to impress and dif fuse a fact, which not a solitary instance has yet occurred to contradict, that the bite on A mad dog ls incurable. Should any of my readers be so unfortunate as to suffer this evil, which, from the shocking anticipation of furious madness and violent death, is not to be paral leled in the long list of human calamities, I strongly recommend a mode which, after having repeatedly canvassed the subject with medi cal friends, I have myself firmly resolved, in such circumstances, to pursue. It is, instantaneously, and without the delay of a second, to take out the piece, which may easily be effected, as most men carry with them for convenience a keen - edged clasp knife. In this case, I would take care that the cut should be ample and deep, without fear of impair ing a limb, or wounding a blood-vessel; for what would we not endure to avoid canine madness, fetters, and suffocation? If this onl effec tual method has been neglected in the first stage of the business, alf an hour's omission renders it useless and after proving by minute inquiry that the animal which inflicted the wound was clearly and incontestibly mad (to determine which he should be tied up, not shot, as is too often the custom, ) recourse ma 1 and I think justifiably, y Safe Y: be had to frequent and large doses of for the humane purpose of closing the eyes of an unhapp Tet plmfeflasfin more desirable than exposing him to the la Qh ill 9 arrow tation, superior in most instances to qqs' {mg h 1083 or reserving him, a sad, a melancholy spectacle, for 0 Q( a suffer vet successless esperi ments for cords, coercion, for weepitli\13\ and ebiflg of teeth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.