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turned on his right side, and expired, a little after 

 two o'clock, on the morning of the 21st, without a 

 struggle. 



It deserves to be mentioned, that about two hours 

 before he died, he ate, very eagerly, half of an apple, 

 and a small piece of bread : but, while swallowing, 

 was somewhat convulsed. 



He was always greatly convulsed while discharging 

 his clysters : but he passed his urine without any 

 similar aftection. 



After his death, there were no livid spots on any 

 part of his body ; but the parts to which the blisters 

 had been applied, had turjied of a blackish hue. His 

 ears had turned black, and the nails of his hands and 

 feet were blue. 



October, 1802. 



NOTE. 



The foregoing case will not be deemed altogether 

 uninteresting. The unfortunate subject of the rela- 

 tion had taken (very soon after the mortal bite was 

 inflicted) a considerable quantity of the Anagallis, in 

 the eflicacy of which, both as a preventive and 

 cure of hydrophobia, so much confidence has been 

 reposed, not only in Pennsylvania and other parts 



