444 Mifcellaneous Obfervations on 
till the following morning. Accordingly, on 
Sunday morning, about ten o'clock, the body 
Was opened in the prefence of one of the phy- 
ficians, myfelf, and two of the Surgeons be- 
longing to the charity. I have to regret that 
the examination did not extend to the brain; 
and indeed, that a more minute inveftigation 
of the morbid appearances, accompanying this 
fatal malady, did not take place. But, fuch 
was the peculiar horror infpired by a view of 
the progrefs and cataftrophe of the difeafe, that 
the accuftomary dread of danger arifing from 
any examination of an hydrophobic fubjed, 
was increafed in this inftance, to a_ tenfold 
degree. Befides, the well known prejudices 
entertained by the country people, againft the 
opening of dead bodies, rendered us anxious to 
finifh the infpeCtion before the arrival of the 
patient’s friends, who were hourly expected. In 
the cavity of the thorax no unufual appearances 
were difcovered ; except, that the furface of the 
lungs appeared of a darker hue, and more dif- 
tenfled with blood than ufual. No inflam- 
mation appeared on an infpection of the fauces ; 
nor were the mufcles of the Larynx or Pharynx 
in the leaft difcoloured. The ftomach and 
C£fophagus were removed from the body, and 
fubjected to particular infpe@ion. A longitu- 
dinal incifion was made through the whole 
, cavity 
