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Canine &3 Spontaneous Hydrophobia. 46% 
dog which had devoured a favourite hen, was bitten 
by the animal in the wrift. He was vifited by 
his phyfician on the following morning. The 
patient complained of great ftricture and anxiety 
about the breaft; his countenance appeared ftern 
and diftrefled ; the tongue and throat were dry 
and parched, but not the flighteft inflammation 
was vifible in thofe parts. Although at firft he 
was able to bear the fight of liquids, he now 
fhuddered at them with extreme averfion. He 
declared fome time after when preffed to drink, 
that he was not able, without feeling the moft 
excruciating torments, to look upon, much lefs 
to {wallow liquids. The wound had healed 
during the time he fuffered thefe complaints. 
He died about the fixth day of the difeafe. The 
dog was not mad, as he was alive and well long 
after the patient died. Another cafe defcribed 
in the fame work,* by Door J. B. Scarra- 
muchi, claims a particular attention, on account 
of the fymptoms being fo ftrongly marked. A 
young man, in a paroxyfm of rage from fome 
domeftic troubles, bit the index finger of his 
left hand, at about eight o'clock in the evening. 
On the next day at four o’clock, P. M. he was 
feized with flight thiverings, accompanied with 
a vomiting of bile. At this period he expe- 
Mmm rienced 
# An, 9. in Append, p, 249, 
