Canine és Spontaneous Hydrophobia. 49 
I. It is difficult to afcertain any precife period 
for the appearance of this difeafe, after the 
communication ‘of the poifon. From forty days 
to three months, may, perhaps, be confidered, 
taking modern writers for our guides, as the ave= 
rage diftance of time——But the interval of the 
appearance of the difeafe from its fuppofed 
caufe, according to fome writers, is fo indeter- 
minate, as to include a period of time, from 
one day, *to forty years. There are, how- 
ever, feveral well authenticated cafes, in which 
the difeafe occurred at the diftance of fix 
months, one year, and even a’ longer period, 
from the communication of the virus. In the 
Akt. Norimberg.t a well marked cafe of canine 
madnefs is defcribed of a gardener, who was 
bitten September the 25th. 1720, and died, 
hydrophobic, on the 8th. of May, 1721.— 
Another indifputable cafe is recorded, in the 
fame work, of a patient who fell a victim to 
the malady nearly a year from the date of the 
infection. Inthe Ephemerides N. C.§ the hiftory 
of a young woman, bitten by a rabid animal, 
is detailed ; in which it appears, that the poifon 
K kk lurked 
* Medical Comment. vol. V. p. 304. 
+ Morgagni, de Cauffis et Sed, Morbor, al vii, art 21, 
}{ Obferv, 7. vol. i. 
§ Ann, 7mo, obs. 148. 
