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caufe, cannot be denied. Yet I apprehend 
we ought to attribute the more fatal virulence of 
the canine poifon, rather to the difference in 
degree, than in the nature of the caufe. For 
undoubtedly, the identity ef effect warrants the 
conclufion of an identity of the caufe. Happy 
would it be for .the patient, as well as grateful 
to the practitioner, if farther praétical expe- 
rience inthe mode of cure, fhould confirm the 
truth of the above inference! 
In the AG. Norimberg. Tom. Il. there is 
a cafe of Hydrophobia related, in which all 
the fymptoms of canine madnefs were com- 
bined with Hyfteria. A cure was effected by 
the exhibition of tonic and antifpafmodic medi- 
cines. Doétor Nugent's extraordinary cafe of 
Hydrophobia affords a fimilar proof of the effi- 
cacy of thefe remedies. 
In both thefe inftances, the fymptoms ap- 
peared altogether in as violent a degree as in any 
cafe of canine madnefs. We may then ra- 
tionally expect, that application and perfever- 
ance will at length difcover a remedy fufti- 
ciently powerful to counteract the virulent effects 
of the canine poifon. 
From a review of the whole of the preceding 
facts and obfervations, are we to confider the 
unhappy cafe prefixed to this enquiry, as arifing 
from the bite of a rabid animal, inflicted twelve 
years 
