452 — Mifcellaneous Obfervations on 
which may generally be traced to the Grecian 
writers ; and thefe, for the moft part, relied on 
hear-fay teftimony, or, the inaccurate hiftories 
of fuppofed cafes of Rabies Canina. Albertus. 
Magnus* fpeaks pofitively, indeed, of a cafe,, 
that fell under his own obfervation, in which 
the difeafe appeared after an interval of feven: 
years from the bite of a rabid dog. Guine-. 
rius ft has, likewife, pledged the authority .of a 
friend; whom he efteemed worthy of credit, 
for the occurrence of rabies canina, eighteen 
years after the patient had been bitten by a. mad 
dog. The difeafe proved fatal on the third day, 
Salmuth, { after quoting from various writers 
feveral inftances of Hydrophobia taking place 
at the period of eighteen or nineteen years af- 
ter the bite, relates one cafe, from his own au- 
thority, in which the fymptoms occurred fevera] - 
years after the patient had been bitters by her huf-, 
band, who died of Hydrophobia. —Among later 
writers on this fubject, the fame habit of in- 
difcriminate quotation and. eafy credulity may 
be 
* ¢¢ Vidi hominem morfum a cane rabido in brachio, & 
s¢ anno feptimo poft incepit inflari locus cicatricis, & 
&* mortuus eft infra duos dies,” . 
Ausrrt. Mac. de Hiftor, animal, Lib. xvii, 
+ Quod cuidam, poft decimum oftavum annum @ 
s¢ cane rabido morfo, metus aquz accefferit.” 
Traé, de Venenis, 
t Saumutu, Cent, 1, 0b/. 065 
