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Stomach ; and he looked very pale., hollow eyed, &c. The third day after this 

 complaint, (Sunday, March 11,1 682,) he called for burnt brandy, drank it, 

 and went to bed, but vomited it up. After this he had a restless night, and in 

 the morning found himself very ill, with a strong rising in his stomach ; and 

 though no thirst, yet an inability to drink, and even to swallow his spittle, 

 which was death to him as he often said. Diascordium and a bottle of cordial 

 water was brought to him ; he took the former, but was not able to drink one 

 spoonful of the cordial. About 1 o'clock that day, (Monday) I first saw him; 

 his pulse was very slow, and sometimes unequal; his flesh cold, his tongue not 

 dry, but flexible and moist, a little white. As he complained greatly of sick- 

 ness about his stomach, I offered him of the cordial, but he started, and trembled 

 at the approach of it. A tumbler of water was brought, which I gave him to 

 drink ; but he vehemently started at it, and his stomach swelled and rose, after 

 a strange manner ; and I could then find his pulse very trembling and disturbed. 

 I still urged him to drink; but as I put it forwards to his mouth, he the more 

 affrighted drew back his head, and sighed, and eyed it with a most ghastly look, 

 not without shrieking and noise. This happening on several times repeating, 

 it became plain the disease was the hydrophobia. 



I forthwith ordered a vein to be opened in the arm which was bitten, caused 

 the wound to be scarified and drawn with vesicatories, and the same plaister to 

 be applied to the neck and legs, and the inside of the arms; I ordered the usual 

 antidotes to be given him, as oftheriaca, cinis cancrorum, ruta, agaricus, &c. 

 in boluses ; for he could take solid things in a spoon, but yet not without much 

 trembling, fear, and caution, and an earnest request that nobody would sud- 

 denly offer them to him, but give them into his hand gently; and then he 

 would by degrees steal his hand softly towards his mouth, and of a sudden chop 

 the spoon in and swallow what was in it, like a dog. Of these antidotes in 

 bolus he took a drachm every hour, and always in this manner, for at least a 

 dozen times taking; but when drink was offered him, he could not see it 

 without horror_, and the same motions from his stomach. And he affirmed 

 that as oft as he by chance swallowed any spittle, it went to his heart, as if he 

 should die that very moment. This night passed wholly without any sleep 

 or rest. 



Tuesday morning I viewed his blood, which was both as to the serum and 

 cake well coloured, and in such proportion as is usual in healthful persons, and 

 of good consistence. He had now a violent fever on him, and a very quick 

 pulse. Water was again offered him, but in vain ; he begging he might die 

 unmolested, nothing being such a terror to him as the approach of any drink ; 

 and that none might come suddenly upon him, or offer him any thing more, 



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