THE HYDROPHOBIA. Ill 



and insensible. He is now lying in the arms of a friend, who 

 is now wiping away the glary poison which he is salivating ; 

 his eye is suffused ; his breathing is quick and short ; he is still 

 sick at times : he has lost the hydrophobia since he became zw- 

 sensible, and has swallowed some fluids without any struggle. 



2 o'Clock. 



He died at one o'clock, in the way of those whose nervous 

 system has been in a state of violent excitement ; his struggle 

 was not unlike what we see at the last in nervous fevers. The 

 face sunk, the eye glazed, the breath short and laborious, slight 

 sub sultus. A little before death he became quite calm. 



I had neglected to place a mirror before him, but I under- 

 stood that he had several times during yesterday surveyed him- 

 self in one which hung in the room. He had nothing of the 

 hydrophobia when passing his urine : and I have reason to 

 think, that the fluids in producing the convulsion had always a 

 reference to the act of swallowing : at one time, as I sat beside 

 him, I saw the spasms, or rather a trembling about the lips, and 

 was apprehensive of a convulsion ; he saw me eyeing him with 

 earnestness, and told me, that his uneasiness arose from his ap- 

 prehension that he should not be able to swallow the medicine 

 which I was recommending. 



N. B. The man was bitten on the 9th of December, and 

 the disorder first shewed itself the 2d of August, an interval of 

 nearly eight months. 



What follows is a minute description of the symptoms that 

 appeared upon dissecting the body of Mason ; and which inves- 

 tigation unquestionably proves, that much inflammation in vari- 

 ous parts accompanies the progress and is discovered at the 

 fatal issue of canine madness. 



BRAIN. The blood escaping from the longitudinal sinus, 

 black as ink. The surface of the brain^ a great effusion under 

 the membrane anachnoides. The veins on the surface of the 



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