SECT. VII. PHYSIOLOGY. a 
patients to drink a decoction of genista tinctoria. 
All the twelve persons who had this treatment 
recovered: two of the fifteen did not take it, and 
the one that Marochetti himself treated, died. 
“'There is one thing,” says Marochetti, “ which 
merits great attention; this is the succession of 
forerunning symptons observable during the 
formation of the pustules: towards this stage, 
the pupil of the eye is dilated and fixed, the 
look is sad, and there is a slight pain in the head. 
If the tumors which form under the tongue are 
not opened, and the virus allowed to escape, it 
is re-absorbed in twenty-four hours, and the 
disease runs its usual course.” When a rabid 
animal bites many individuals at once, those last 
bitten have the disease in a milder form. 
cLtxxvi. The circumstance to which I would 
particularly turn the reader’s attention in the 
above statement, is the dilation of the pupil, 
which plainly indicates diminution of action in the 
optic nerve. It cannot proceed from the fulness 
of the blood-vessels, for they are always found 
in their natural state on dissection. Never having 
seen a case of hydrophobia, I defer carrying this 
inquiry further at present. 
cLxxvil. Anomalous Spasms.—By this term 
I understand those irregular muscular movements 
which do not constitute a specific disease, such as 
the tic, and the cramps to which swimmers are 
