Genre:

Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Homeopathy, Vaccination, Medical Treatment

    Reports on a paper read by M Toutmonoeil at the Académie des Sciences, Paris, on 'the proposed treatment of hydrophobia on the homeopathic principle that like cures like'. Explains how Toutmonoeil intends to inoculate patients bitten by dogs with the poison of a rattlesnake, but that the savant has not been able to find anybody willing to submit to his experiments.