Canine &8 Spontantous Hydrophobia. 453 
be obferved. Even the accurate Morgagni, * 
when treating on this fubject, does not forny 
an exception to the charge. He has quoted 
an authority from the German Ephemerides, + 
to fupport his affertion, that the canine ‘poifon 
has lain dormant for twenty years, and then 
proved fatal. On confulting the original it 
appears, that Morgagni either never read the 
cafe, but took it upon loofe authority; or has 
drawn falfe conclufions from a ftatement of the 
facts. For the writer of this cafe relates, that 
his patient had been feveral days afflicted with 
a malignant fever; and alfo complained of a 
pain in the fauces, which were infpected by 
a furgeon, and found inflamed.$ Surely this laft 
fymptom, added to the great debility the patient 
Jaboured under, fuafficiently accounts for the 
averfion to {wallow liquids, and the confequent 
difguft experienced at the bare mention of 
them; without recurring (with the Phyfician) 
to the idle ftory of the patient being bitten 
twenty years ago, by a dog fuppofed to be mad. 
In the other inftance, of § forty years intervening 
between. 
* Epift, Anatom. viii. Art. 21, 
+ Ephem, N.C, Ann. 9 & 10. obf. 49. 
$ “ Fauces erant ficciflima, & tandem ob defeétum 
* humidi inflammadbantur ; malignitas indies crefcebat ; 
 deliria accedebant, & oftavo morbi die animam eMlavit.” 
. Loc. prom, cit. 
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