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placed the most implicit confidence in a quack remedy employed 

 by the peasants in his neighbourhood, which was applied imme- 

 diately after the accident. He had felt sharp pain proceeding from 

 the cicatrix of the wound up the arm to his breast, many days be- 

 fore the appearance of the disease. No vesicles appeared on the 

 tongue, but there was swelling of the glands, and although he 

 was in full possession of his senses, yet he had a strange unac- 

 countable feelingat intervals. The longer those periods lasted, so 

 much the longer and more stormy were the hydrophobic attacks. 

 In one of these paroxysms, rendered remarkable by his spit- 

 ting, biting, and scratching, he suddenly broke away from his 

 attendants, and sci'atched the face of a servant girl who was pre- 

 sent. This girl, a strong-minded phlegmatic person, about 

 twenty years of age, immediately washed her face, and regard- 

 ing the accident as an indifferent occurrence, thought no more 

 about it, until the night of the 16lh May, when she found her- 

 self indisposed. Her temperament had become hasty and exalted, 

 and quite different from what it had been formerly. Her eyes 

 became bright, and at times sharply fixed ; her thoughts, con- 

 trary to her usual wont, seemed busy ; sometimes she would ap- 

 pear to listen, then feel astonishment. These symptoms led to 

 apprehensions of a serious illness, but before this had occurred, 

 the girl was brought home to her parents in a neighbouring 

 province of Austria. From thence we received information that 

 hydrophobia had set in with all its symptoms. She felt shud- 

 dering and spasmodic constriction of the throat at the sight of 

 fluids, with sensation of choking and twitching motions of the 

 ■whole body. The attacks came on periodically, and were parti- 

 cularly characterized by wild shrieking, and a wish to bite and 

 spit, as well as to destroy every thing. The latest news we re- 

 ceived was that the girl was still alive, and that the fits, with even 

 increasing periodsof intermission, had become gradually slighter, 

 and assumed in a remarkable manner the nature of epileptic 

 convulsions, although previously she never had had an attack 

 of this kind. These paroxysms occurred very seldom in the lat- 

 ter periods and were slight, yet they were principally excited by 

 some remembrance of the man who had died. The medical 

 treatment, after the abstraction of blood, had been of a simple 

 fiaturc. — Dublin Med. Journ. vol xiii. p. 142. 



