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firenuous’ exertion, ‘againft famine, debt, .and 
defpair! Add, to thefe circumftances, the effects 
of imagination in aggravating the violence of 
the.difeafe. For, although the patient’s dread 
of liquids did not arife from this caufe, as he 
felt a difficulty in {wallowing them: previous to 
being imprefled with a remembrance of his 
having been bitten by a fuppofed mad dog, yet 
the moment this idea took poffeffion of his mind, 
he confidered his recovery as hopelefs. - The 
image of the dog haunted his imagination with 
perpetual terrors; and the expectation of a vio- 
Jent death, by being fmothered, (a vulgar and 
unjutt perfuafion too, often entertained) would 
not a little tend to increafe the nervous irritation 
already excited. I have before mentioned, that 
this cafe, from the difeafe being in a very 
advanced ftage, was confidered as irremediable. 
Neverthelefs, fuch remedies were adminifiered 
as are ufually recommended in the cure of this 
complaint. Among thefe the external and inter- 
nal ufe of oil were tried; but indeed, at fo late 
a period, as not to afford any great expectation 
of relief being obtained. It may not be im- 
proper to mention here an idea that occurred 
to'me on reading the two cafes related by Doctor 
Shadwell,* in which he trufted folely to the 
exhibition of this remedy. In one inftance it 
Ooo proved 
_ * Memoirs of the London Medical Society —Jaft vol. 
