458 Mifcellaneous Objervations on 
which had been torn by a mad dog, might 
juftly have been confidered unworthy of credit, 
had not the cafe of Hildanus, and a fimilar 
one mentioned by Doctor Hamilton,* ferved to 
corroborate the teftimony of this author. Car- 
dan has alfo recorded the circumftance of his 
being called in to affift at a confultation, in a 
cafe of Hydrophobia; and, on an enquiry 
being made’into the caufe of the malady, the. 
by-ftanders confeffed, that the patient had kiffed 
a rabid dog, previous to its being hanged.¢ The 
patient died the following day, according to the 
prognoftic of his Phyficians. Thefe inftances 
are corroborated by the following cafe. It was 
communicated to me by Dr. Percival, and is 
fupported by his own refpectable authority. A 
man refiding at Worral in Chefhire, during 
his being afleep and lying on the ground, 
was licked about the mouth by an infected dog ; 
but fuffered no dite, nor the flighte/t apparent injury 
of the fkin. He was, however, feized about 
the ufual period with fymptoms of Hydrophobia ; 
and died of the difeafe, notwithftanding the 
ufual preventive means had been adopted pre- 
vious 
*Hamitton On Hydrophobia,” p. 226 
"+ Adftantes confeffi ofculaffe rabidum canem antequam 
‘* emitteret fuffocandum:—Mortuus autem eft fequente dic, 
* ut nos pradixeramus,” 
Cannan, Contradi&. 9, Trad. 5, lib, 2 
