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mena, there may be fome reafon to imagine, that 
every faithful defcription of facts will be pro- 
du@ive of advantage; and may probably at 
length lead to the eftablifhment of a juft theory, 
and a fuccefsful mode of cure. The following 
cafe has a peculiar claim to attention, on 
account of the great diftance of time, from the 
bite of a fuppofed rabid animal, to the appear- 
ance of the difeafe. It is, indeed, a difficult 
tafk, to afcertain a fact of this nature; and 
efpecially, when enquiries are to be made from 
ignorant and prejudiced perfons. As it is, 
however, a matter of the utmoft importance to 
be eftablifhed, no pains have been fpared, to 
gain every intelligence, which the Patient and 
his friends were capable of communicating. 
The refult of the enquiry is in favour of the 
Patient’s repeated affertion: ‘‘ That he had 
‘** never fuffered the leaft injury, from any ani- 
‘* mal; except the bite, inflifted twelve years 
“« fince, by an apparent mad-dog.”* : 
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* The Patient had lived at the village of Afhworth, 
near Bury, from the period of the bite, till within two 
months of his death, whem he removed to Fearn Gore, in 
the fame neighbourhood, An enquiry was made in every 
family, at both places, relative to there having been any 
mad animal in their neighbourhood, during Lindfay’s 
refidence among them; andy if fo, whether they had ever 
heard, 
