110 THE HYDROPHOBIA. 



10 o'clock. 



I found him standing at a corner of the room quite delirious ; 

 but his delirium was not of a mischievous kind, not that of 

 fierceness or passion, it was rather of alarm and trepidation : it 

 was much of that kind which we see in the worst kinds of con- 

 tinued fevers, where there has been constant watching with 

 severe pain in the head : he was jealous of every one, and said 

 that I had joined the combination to kill him ; however, when 

 I desired him to put out his tongue, he obeyed me ; it was white 

 and I thought rather swelled, and covered with a slime or very 

 viscid saliva ; this he was spitting, or rather hawking, inces- 

 santly and with great violence, and this hawking might easily be 

 thought, by a warm imagination, to be a kind of barking. I 

 had a strait jacket put on before I left him, and ordered him to 

 be tied down in bed. 



August 7th, 11 o'Clock. 



He fell fast asleep at twelve, and slept (for the first time) six 

 hours ; but when he awoke, he still retained the worst symptoms 

 of his disease ; the character of his delirium was changed, he 

 was quite sullen ; he was leaning over the side of the bed with 

 his eyes fixed on the floor, and constantly spitting out the viscid 

 saliva with great violence. Still I retained more influence with 

 him than any one, he even expressed a regard for me ; and at 

 one time, as he was struggling to get his hands out of the jacket, 

 he suddenly recollected that J had ordered it on, and became 

 quiet, observing, that I should not have ordered it had it not 

 been for his good. He had a little time before that taken 

 several draughts of tea, and swallowed some bread rather greedily, 

 immediately after a severe expression of the hydrophobia. 

 About half past ten he became very sick, and after retching a 

 ropy saliva, his attendants described him as becoming quite livid, 

 the affected arm quite stiff, and the rest of his body gently agi- 

 tated for about ten minutes, since which time he has been quiet 



