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afflicted with this dreadful disease, I with a wife and family to 

 support ? " 



We may also give the following short account of a death from 

 this dread disease, which occurred on November 4th, 1887, at 

 Bradford. 



" An adjourned inquest was held on Tuesday — before Mr. 

 J. G. Hutchinson, borough coroner — in reference to the death 

 of John Davey (40), farmer, Schoolbrook, Tong, who died on 

 the 4th inst., at the Bradford Infirmary, from hydrophobia. — Dr. 

 Vaughan, the house physician at the Bradford Infirmary, said 

 that the deceased was admitted to the Infirmary on the 2nd of 

 November, and appeared to be mentally depressed, and was quiet. 

 Witness inquired about the history of the case, and the deceased 

 told him that he had complained about a slight pain over the left 

 eyebrow, but this had become very much worse, and had spread 

 over the w^iole of the side of the head and down the neck. He 

 complained also of stiffness in the neck and a deep-seated pain 

 behind the left ear, and said that on Monday night whilst going 

 home from the station he could not face the wind, and that when 

 he reached home he could take solid food, but any attempt to 

 drink produced such painful spasms that his wife had to purchase 

 a rubber tube, so that he might be enabled to take liquid. Having 

 described the mode of treatment followed and the progress of the 

 case, witness said that the cause of death was certainly hydro- 

 phobia. In his (the doctor's) opinion when the symptoms had 

 set in to the extent they had in this case, and definitely declared 

 themselves, there was no cure. In the treatment of the deceased, 

 witness had the assistance of Dr. Goyder and other medical 

 gentlemen. — In answer to the Coroner, Witness said that he had 

 seen scores of cases where persons had been bitten by mad dogs, 

 and not one had proved fatal where there had been an effective 

 treatment of the wound in the first instance. If the poison, 

 however, was once absorbed, he thought that the result must 

 prove fatal. — The jury returned a verdict of 'Death from hydro- 

 phobia.' " 



The above account is taken, so far as we recollect, from the 

 Yorkshire Weekly Post. In regard to the question whether 

 immediate treatment can or cannot put a stop to the effects of 

 the virus of rabies it is very difficult to speak positively. We 

 rather incline to the idea that Dr. Vaughan may be right; but 



