408 HYDROPHOBIA. 



doubt of the case ; whence, taking her madness for granted, 

 we may severally form our own opinions as to the value of 

 cauterisation. 



Inasmuch as the two cases of human hydrophobia already 

 chronicled in this narrative are English cases, it may be as 

 well, before concluding, to present two French cases by way 

 of set-off, if only to prove that the disease comes introduced 

 to us under the same guise, whether the statement of it have 

 reference to France or England ; whether narrated by French- 

 man or Englishman. 



' A lady,' writes Monsieur Perquin, in his treatise on 

 Hydrophobia, ' owned a greyhound, that she petted by allow- 

 ing to sleep on her bed. One morning, she remarked that 

 he had torn the bed-covering; and although he ate little, 

 he drank often, and in much larger quantity than was usual 

 with him. A veterinary surgeon, on seeing the dog, pro- 

 nounced that nothing ailed him ; but the greyhound having 

 bit his mistress's forefinger near the nail, she became anxious, 

 and led the dog to the veterinary surgeon a second time. 

 Again he reassured her. On the following day, however, the 

 dog died, having never ceased to drink abundantly up to the 

 very last. This happened on December 27th. On the 4th 

 of February subsequently, as the lady was dining with her 

 husband, she found some difficulty in swallowing. She wished 

 to take some wine, but could not. The day following she 

 consulted a surgeon, who wished her to swallow some soup in 

 his presence, but she could not. She then fell into a state of 

 violent agitation, with spasm and constriction of the throat, 

 and on the 7th four days after the first manifestation of 

 disease she died.' 



Far more terrible the progress of disease to its issue in 

 the following case, also narrated by Monsieur Perquin : 



* Joseph Delmaire, of Looberghe, was, on the 6th of 

 October 1836, bitten by a dog that had attacked him in 

 the forest. Suspecting the dog to have been mad, Delmaire 



