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above: mentioned event.’ The firft is particularly 
deferving of attention, as it affords certain proof 
of the danger to. be apprehended, if the flighteft 
rafure of the {kin be! expofed/to the action of 
the canine virus.’ It is the:cafe of a young 
man, who received a fcratch from a rabid cat, 
and that of ‘fo flight:a kind as fcarcely to rafe 
the Epidermis. * . This:accident happened the 
fummer preceding that»in which the difeafe 
occurred.—He died on the third day of the at- 
tack, under all the genuine fymptoms of hydro- 
phobia. Itis probable in the prefent inftance, 
that the claw of the animal was the medium 
by which the faliva was communicated to the 
injured cuticle. If this were the fact, how in- ° 
conceivably virulent muft be the action of this 
poifon, when fo fmall a portion as could be 
conveyed by fuch an inftrument as the claw of 
a cat, was capable of producing the malady!— 
- ‘The fecond cafe referred to by Hildanus, arofe 
from the flighteft bite imaginable of a rabid 
animal. ‘This accident proved fatal to the fuf- 
ferer. ‘The well-known hiftory which -Czlius 
‘Aurelianus relates (founded on report only) of 
a woman fuffering the baneful effects of the 
canine poifon, from merely applying her tongue 
and lips to the infected threads of a garment, 
Lee Lil which 
9 Obf. 86, 
t De mord, acut, lib, 3. cap. 9. 
