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obliged to turn afide his head from the veffel, 
as he could not bear the fight of the fluid with- 
out great uneafinefs. Being rather thirfty, he 
wifhed for balm tea to drink; but was unable 
to fwallow it from a fenfe of pain and tight- 
nefs, which he experienced about the throat, 
when the liquid was prefented to him. He 
fuddenly exclaimed, on perceiving this laft 
fymptom, ‘*‘ Good God! It is all over with 
me!” and immediately recalled to his Wife's 
recollection, the circumftance of his having 
been bitten,* twelve years ago, by a large dog 
apparently mad; which was flying from the 
purfuit of a number of people, on the high 
road between Warrington and Manchefter. 
During the whole of Thurfday, his abhorrence 
of fluids increafed ; and he now began to feel 
an uneafy fenfation on being expofed to the air. 
The flight twitchings of his arms were alfo 
increafed to fudden ftartings; attended with a 
violent agitation of his whole body. He had 
fuffered 
“® Soon after this accident, he applied to a Surgeon at 
Afhton in this neighbourhood, who drefled the wound for 
‘a fhort time, and ordered the Ormékirk medicine to be 
taken, The wound was fpeedily healed; and the Patient 
had never diftrufted his being cured, till the moment he 
was unable to fwallow liquids. I wrote to the Surgeon, 
With a view of obtaining particular information relative 
to the ftate of the wound, &c.; but, the circumflance had 
altogether efcaped his memory. 
