Canine &3 Spontaneous Hydrophobia. 435, 
tom of Hydrophobia, little or no advantage. 
could. be expected from medicine. He was 
ordered, however, about four o’clock the fame 
afternoon, to take a bolus compofed of twelve 
grains of mufk, two grains of opium, and fix 
grains of camphor. ‘Two drachms of ftrong 
mercurial ointment were alfo directed to be 
rubbed in upon the throat and breaft. I faw 
the Patient, in company with the other Phyfi- 
cians, about fix o’clock the fame evening ; and. 
we found him very willing, and {ufficiently 
compofed, to give a diftinct account of the cir- 
cumftances preceding the difeafe, and to defcribe 
his fufferings fince its attack. The following 
particulars were collected. ne has been indus- 
trious, fober, and regular in his mode of living; 
Gut fubje& to low fpirits from the difficulty he 
found, at times, of maintaining a wife and fix 
young children. His exertions, however, were 
in general proportionate to his difficulties. But 
of late, from the depreciation of labour, he 
found, that the moft rigid ceconomy and inde- 
fatigable induftry were not fufficient to ward 
off, from himfelf and family, the calamities of 
hunger, debt, and the moft abject poverty. The 
anxiety of his mind now became almoft infup- 
portable. As the laft refuge for his diftrefs, he 
applied, a few days previous to the attack of 
his complaint, to the Overfeers of his Parith for 
their affiftance to pay his rent, and thereby pre- 
Hhhe vent 
