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case, if if were genuine, and I commenced to make an examination of 

 the patient. 



Ir appeared that, as lie came into the building- the night before, a dog 

 that had sneaked in, probably in search of something to eat, suddenly 

 rushed out and, in passing him, bit him on one of his hands slightly, 

 lie went to bed. and alter a while went to sleep, but awoke some time 

 in the night and began to moan and cry out, arousing the others sleep- 

 ing in the room, and when he commenced to aet like a dog they tied 

 both his hands and feet. 



Mr. Gibson put in an appearance, and we concluded that nothingbut 

 the bite of a dog in an aggravated condition of rabies would, in a few 

 hoars, bring about such an exhibition of agony, and immediately ordered 

 the thongs on his hands and feet to be cut and told him to stand up. 

 When he did so we saw that his legs were unsteady, but this was nat- 

 ural, for he had been tied for several hours. 



We had him walk to the house, and he was given a good strong 

 drink of hot whisky, for he had lain so long in the cold that he was 

 chilled through. He soon lapsed into his violent contortions again, 

 throwing his arms wildly about, growling and barking, and occasion- 

 ally making a lunge as if to bite his arm, but on each occasion we noticed 

 he failed to quite reach it. His poise beat as regularly as my own, and 

 his flesh had that cool, moist feeling that a hydrophobic victim would 

 give the world to possess, if he had reason enough to know what it was 

 worth to him. 



We put some food before him and he ate it ravenously, taking it up 

 with his teeth, and when it was all eaten he tried to make a meal of an 

 iron-handled knife. A candle placed before him was nibbled at, but 

 quickly abandoned, as it was hard to masticate. 



About this time a native from the village sauntered in, when the 

 sick man espied him, and, making a rush for him, out he dashed pell- 

 mell, and then commenced a mad race over the frozen snow. The 

 native was too badly frightened to be caught, however, and kept on 

 running long after the sick man was brought back to the house. 



At this time the native doctor of the village came in, and, going 

 immediately up to the man, slapped him violently on the back, at the 

 same time blowing into his face. The man immediately threw himself 

 back as stiff as if dead. His eyes rolled in his head, and, alter a par- 

 oxysm of growling, barking, and gnashing of the teeth, he gradually suc- 

 cumbed to the mysterious power of the doctor and went off into a con- 

 dition of quiet and peace. It did not last long, however, and, 

 becoming tired of his antics, we had him taken to the house, and in the 

 coldest corner tied and gagged him and left him stretched out on his 

 back, with nothing to gaze at but the frost-covered rafters above. In 

 an hour or so he signified his willingness to behave, and we released 

 him. He by this time saw that his foaming frenzy did not frighten us 

 and that a repetition of his performance meant more severe measures 

 than being tied in the cold. 



