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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Editor of the Australasian Medical Gazette, 1884-03-09. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id//letters/1880-9/1884/84-03-09-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'New remedies for hydrophobia', in 'Correspondence', Australasian medical gazette, April 1884, p. 168 (B84.04.02).
Sir, — By the last mail, just arrived, I have received a letter from Professor Naudin,
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Letter not found.
Member of the Institute of France, in which he mentions that the great expectations which Professor Boulay, of Paris, from the communications of Dr. Pereira, of Lisbon, set on garlic as a remedy in hydrophobia, have by some recent experiments, published in the Comptes Rendus,
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Gibier (1884) was read at the meeting of the Académie des Sciences, Paris, held on 7 January 1884.
not been realized.
The use of pilocarpin proved equally unreliable in hydrophobia, but arsenic, so Professor Naudin says, holds out more hope, as dogs suffering from rabies show immunity to small quantities of arsenic.
As yet eucalyptus oil seems never to have been tried in that horrid disease.
Yours, &c.,
FERD. VON MUELLER.
Melbourne, March 9.