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lurked dormant ‘for the {pace of one year, and 
then proved fatal. 
Galen * afferts from his own knowledge, that 
the difeafe in one inftance did not appear till 
after the {pace of a year, from the communica- 
tion of the poifon. Actuarius f affords a fimilar 
proof of the difeafe occuring fix months, and, 
even, one year, from the date of the bite. 
Diofcorides £ has obferved, that although the 
difeafe, for the moft part, difcovers itfelf in 
forty days after the infection; yet, in fome 
inftances, fix months and even a year have 
intervened. Though we may be fully war- 
ranted to conclude, from the teftimony of the 
above authorities, to which many later examples 
might have been added, that the fymptoms of 
canine madnefs have not been manifefted till fo 
long a period as twelve months after the inflic- 
tion of the bite; yet we can place little depend- 
ance on the teftimony of many authors, who 
. . have 
* & Novi fane & quendam, qui, exaéto anno, in cum 
‘¢ incurfit affe@um, quem Hydrophobiam vocant.” 
Ga.en, lib, Prorrhet. fe& 2. com. 17, 
+ © Attamen poft fex menfes, & anno elapfo, invadere 
& contigit, ut nos ex experientid comperimus,” — 
Actuar. Method, Medendi. Lib, viii. 
¢ * Cum enim ut plurimum ad quadragefimum usque 
& diem differri confueverit ; negleftis tamen quibusdam, 
& poft femeftre, imo etiam poft annum, fuperveniffe obfer- 
s vabimus.” Droscoxrip, Lib, vi. Cap. 3. 
