456 » Mifcellaneous Obfervations on 
the naked body. » He ftrengthens this cautionary 
advice, by bringing forward his own * autho- 
rity to prove the occurrence of the difeafe, from 
the mere afperfion of the faliva on the bodies 
of two of his patients. Fab. Hildanus, in a 
letter to his friend Do@or Abel Rofcius of Lau- 
fanne, laments the incredulity of many perfons, 
who had treated as fabulous the account he had 
given of a remarkable cafe of Hydrophobia, 
arifing folely from a woman having applied 
her lips and tongue to that part of a gar- 
ment which had been torn’ by a mad ani- 
mal. In order, therefore, to banifh the feru- 
ples of the moft fceptical, he fubjoins a+ hiftory 
of the cafe, and pledges his veracity for the 
truth of the relation. ‘To render this narration 
the more probable, he adds two cafes which 
fell under his infpeétion, the year following the 
above 
* < Quippe quod duos ego Viderim, qui /pumd tan- 
& tum, nullo quidem ex morfu accepto vulnere, rabiem 
&¢ contraxerunt,” Martruior. Comment, lib. 6. 
+ * Matrone cuidam in via obviam canis rabiofus, 
** qui veftem ejus dentibus arripiens, huc et illuc trahebat ; 
« donec tandem, vefte lacerata, cute tamen mulitris” illeefa 
¢ et intada, canis aufugit: illa, vero, nefcia canem Fabi- 
* ofum fuiffe laceratam veftem, ‘lo dentibus abfciffo,  refar- 
“ cire ccepit,—Tribus menfibus poft, vifionibus hortibilibus 
“et pavoribus agitari ceepit, et aquam et vinum. odiffe, 
‘et, quod pejus eft inftar canis latrare, dentibus domes- 
 ticos arripere, Sc,’ 
Fas, Hitpan, cent 1, Ob/., 86. 
