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ethers, and: an irregular diftribution in all. The 
vehement, excitement produces a proportionate ex. 
hauftion, and the vaft expenditure of fenforial power, 
arapid decay of flrength. The livid hue of the face 
and lips fhews a defect of oxygenation of the blood} 
the dilatation of the pupils and derangement of the 
faculties demonftrate the want of energy of the brain; 
and the convulfions, the ftrugglings of a dying an 
mal. In fhort, a preternatural fenfibility, joined ta 
univerfal: debility, charaGerizes the difeafe; while a 
peculiar fympathy between the local injury and the 
mufcles of deglutition points out a ftriking analogy 
between this malady and the locked-jaw. The for- 
mer, however, proceeds from am envenomed wound, 
_ the latter not; which conftitutes an effential difference, | 
and is perhaps the caufe why the former renders 
the gullet fo exquifitely fenfible, as to become impa- 
tient even of its natural ftimulus, the faliva.. Hence 
the quantity of frothy fpittle, which the patient in- 
dignantly {pits outas fait as it is fecreted. Hence the 
immediate pam and f{trangulation on his attempting 
to fwallow any liquid, however mild. .. Hence, too, 
the horror and convulfions which, by affociation 
” of ideas, attend the very fight or mention of it. 
The canine poifon feems to attack the oxygenous 
principle of the blood, the probable fource of irri+ 
tability and of life. Hence the depreffed unequal 
palfe,. the chillinefs of the extremities, accom- 
panied with internal heat, the melancholy afpetct,» 
the 
