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the poison was received : and when the former wound can- 

 not be found in this way, if a true history of the case can be 

 gained, it will always be found that the inoculation was re- 

 ceived on the part so scratched or licked ; and 1 have reason 

 to believe that this morbid sympathy in the bitten part ex- 

 ists more or less in every case *. The appetite is by no means 

 always affected in either early or continued rabies ; on the 

 contrary, food is not only eaten, but digested also, during- 

 the first stag-es ; and some will eat almost to the last, but 

 with them the food is seldom dig-ested. That no disincli- 

 nation to liquids exists, will be readily acknowledged by 

 all who observe the disease with only common attention: 

 from the first to the last, no aversion to water is ever ob- 

 served. In the early stag^es, liquids are taken as usual, and 

 some continue to take them so throughout the complaint ; 

 others cannot, from a swelling- and paralysis of the parts of 

 deg-lutition, readily swallow them in the advanced stages, 

 but, in such, no spasm is occasioned by the attempt, nor does 

 it occasion pain or dread; on the contrary, from the heat and 

 thirst occasioned by the fever, water is sought for, and, in 

 most cases, an extreme eagerness is expressed t for it. The 



* I have seen a dog which had been kuown to have been bitten in the 

 foot, some weeks afterwards begin to lick the part, at first gently, then 

 violently, incessantly whining over it, as though distressed with the sen- 

 sation produced, until, at last, he has proceeded actually to gnaw it. 

 I have witnessed the same thing happening to other parts, as the lips 

 and ears, which have been rubbed or scratched with anxious perse- 

 verance from the beginning to the end of the complaint, when the rabid 

 bites have been received there. 



f Perhaps a greater instance of pertinacity is not on record than 

 that which marks Dr. Parry's treatment of the various testimonies to this 

 fact. Although these testimonies are given by authorities equal to his 

 own and by those whose opportunities for observation, and habits of im- 

 proving them, rendered them worthy of implicit confidence y yet to 

 establish a visionary and short-lived theory, and notoriously without one 

 authentic fact to support him, he has, in the most unfair and illiberal 

 manner, endeavoured to weaken the credibility of them, and, by argu- 

 ments the most weak and futile, has attempted to prove, that, of necessity, 



