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From the united teftimony of various writers, it 
how-appears, (though it will, perhaps, fcarcely be 
credited) that in the early ftage of the difeafe, a 
mad-dog will eat and drink, and even fawn on the 
perfon upon whom he is about -to infli& a mortal 
injury. An alarming confideration! and which 
demands from the publick more than ordinary 
precaution! 
That no conclufion can be drawn from the mere 
taking or refufing food or drink, further appears 
from the following fatal incidents, and which ought 
-to be a caution never to carefs or be familiar with 
ftray-dogs:—The fon of a noted Admiral, aged 15, 
on the 6th of December, 1784, while ftooping down 
to play with a little ftray-dog, was bitten through 
the under lip. After it had bit him, we are affured, 
from the beft authority, that ‘it eat meat and 
‘¢ lapped milk and water, and fhewed no inclination 
“to bite the coachman, who tied aftring round 
*¢ its neck, and led it to the coach-houfe, where 
‘it lived four days.”* The boy was inftantly 
fent, however, to the houfe of Mr. Joun Hunter, 
who faw him within afew hours after the bite. 
Every precaution was now taken—a cauftic was 
applied to the wound, two phyficians were alfo 
called in confultation; the Ormfkirk, the Tonquin 
remedy, mercury and opium, were fucceflively 
* See London Medical Journal, vol. viii. p. 162. 
adminiftered. 
