308 Capt. HAHDWiCKii's Description of a large Species of Rat. 



The bite of this animal is considered dangerous, and an in- 

 stance of its effects came under my notice while at the military 

 station of Futtehgurh, in the Dooab, where an European in the 

 Honourable East India Company's artillery died under a con- 

 firmed hydrophobia in about twelve days after having been bitten 

 by a rat. This opinion I rest upon the judgment of the medical 

 gentleman who attended the unfortunate man subsequently to 

 the accident. 



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