466 Mifcellaneous Obfervations on 
rienced a dread of water,* and every other 
‘kind of liquid—nor was he able to bear the 
fight of polifhed and ftrongly illuminated objects. 
To fuch a degree was the abhorrence of water 
felt, as to occafion a fenfe of fuffocation at the 
‘ bare mention of it. He afterwards became 
delirious, {pitted upon the by-ftanders, and 
was with difficulty reftrained by violent coercion 
from injuring them. He vomited large quan- 
titis of bile, and a dark coloured fluid. His 
ftrength funk gradually, and he expired in the 
{pace of a few hours.f Johan. Hen. Brechfeld 
has related the cafe of a gentleman, who was 
feized with hydrophobia in fo violent a degree, 
as not to be able to {wallow the {malleft portion 
of any liquid. He had no difficulty in fwallow- 
ing folids. On the third day of the difeafe he 
{pitted at the by-ftanders; and fuddenly expired in 
his chair on the next day, after an attack of one 
or two general convufions. Upon a ftrié 
enquiry being made into the caufe of his com- 
plaint, and particularly with refpeét to his 
having been at any time expofed to infection 
from 
* « Verfus horam 16 aquam, omnemque alium liquorem, 
*¢ necnon corpora lucida et candida abhorrefcere incepit, 
s* ita ut etiam ad aqux mentionem ftrangulari videretur,”’ 
+ A€t, Hafniens, An, 1682, 
