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** in lefs than ten minutes he died. Door 
** Simfon, Mr. Cole, and) Mr. Whitwelf, as 
* well as myfelf, attended him’; and we! were 
*¢ all of opinion, that if the fymptoms FP have 
** defcribed had’ followed the ‘bite of an’ ani- 
** mal, inftead of the injury done to his finger 
** by a fplinter of wood, we fhould have’ had 
** fome difficulty in. determining’ whether the 
** difeafé was Tetanus or Hydrophobia. ' A- 
** bout ten years fince I attended a patient, whofe 
fymptoms were nearly fimilar to thofe above 
** related, and which were the confequence of a 
** bite from a horfe. After opium, and other 
** antifpafmodics, were ineffectually tried, ve 
** recovered by the ufe of electricity.” 
If there were any neceflity for additional 
proofs of the occurrence of Hydroyhobic fymp- 
toms, in cafes of local injury, a variety of in- 
ftances might be brought forward, from Hilda- 
nus, Ceelius Aurelianus, Schenkius, and other 
writers. But the fact feems to’ be fufficiently 
eftablifhed. It appears then, that the occafional 
caufes productive of {pontaneous Hydrophobia, 
_ operate either locally or generally upon the net- 
vous fyftem, by increafing its irritability, andat'the- 
fame time inducing debility. It is alfo fufficiently 
evident, that the a¢tion of the canine poifon pro- 
duces fimilar effects. But itsfuperior mifchievous 
activity, in comparifon with any other occafional 
caule, 
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