Canine &3 Spontaneous Hydrophobia. 433 
‘jolm Lindfay, weaver at Fearn Gore near 
Bury, in the county of Lancafter, aged thirty- 
fix, of middling ftature, and fpare habit of 
body, and of a temperament inclined to the 
melancholic, was brought into the Manchefter 
Lunatic Hofpital,on Friday May the fixteenth, 
1794, about three o’clock in the afternoon. He 
was immediately vifited by Dr, Le Saffier, who 
obligingly communicated to me the following 
particulars. The Patient expreffed feelingly his 
fenfe of danger, from the perfuafion that his 
diforder proceeded from the bite of a mad dog. 
He was defired to drink a little cold water, 
which on being prefented to him he rejected, 
with every appearance of difguft and horror. 
Being again ftrongly urged to drink, he made 
the attempt, and with great exertion got down 
a {mall quantity of the liquid. He was perfectly 
rational, but appeared apprehenfive of danger 
from the leaft noife, or approach of any perfon 
towards him. He expreffed a defire to make 
Hhh | water, 
heard, or fufpe&ted, that he had been bitten, or otherwife 
expofed to the danger of infe&tion, They all agreed in 
returning a negative anfwer to both thefe queftions. I 
ought further to obferve, that as both thefe villages contain 
few families, and thefe, without one exception, having 
dwelt in the fame place, from the time of the Patient’s 
coming among them, to the attack of his complaint, their 
evidence in fupport of the Patient’s declaration, is com- 
plete and fatisfattory, 
