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years after the bite had been received. But 
the symptoms of hydrophobia manifest them- 
selves most commonly in the course of six weeks 
after the communication of the virus. 
cutxxiu. There is an analogy between tetanus 
and hydrophobia ; both arise from local injuries ; 
both seem to become fatal more from the operation 
of the animal economy upon itself, than from 
the injury inflicted; and both are attended by 
paralysis of the pharyngeal muscles. 
cLxxIv. Hydrophobia is sometimes symptoma- 
tic in fevers; but I am not aware that the saliva 
is ever virulent in such cases. 
cuxxv. All was. conjecture respecting the 
operation of canine virus, till the late memoir 
of Marochetti, which promises to throw light 
upon this hitherto dark subject. In 1813, he 
was desired to attend fifteen persons under the 
influence of canine virus, in Kijawka, a village 
of the Ukraine; but at the request of some of the 
villagers, and on condition that nothing was done 
without his knowledge, he confided the treatment 
of twelve of his patients to a peasant in the 
vicinity, who had acquired great reputation for 
the cure of hydrophobia. The rustic practitioner 
examined the lower surface of the tongue every 
day at least, and as the extremities of the ducts 
from the sublingual glands became swelled, he 
cauterized the tumors or pustules, and ordered the 

