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he would have thrown it into his throat, as he did the boluses; but it hit against 

 his teeth and fell into the bowl. As he never went to stool or made water all 

 this time, a clyster was given him ; but on parting with it, which he did im- 

 mediately almost as soon as given, he died convulsed: but his not making water, 

 as well as a troublesome priapism, which he complained of when on his knees, 

 might proceed from the blistering plaisters, as well as from his disease. 



The day after his interment I accidentally met his cousin Mrs. S. who told 

 me that her daughter was in fear, for just that very day fortnight before his 

 death she had been at his house, and he would go home with her to her mo- 

 ther's; that she remembered his hand trembled and his body shook, that he 

 was in a cold sweat, and in a great disorder, so that she asked him what he 

 ailed : he told her that after his work (for he was an upholsterer) it had been of 

 late usual with him: and what was remarkable the very dog which bit him came 

 at that time along with him to her mother's house ; and was alive and well at 

 the time of the man's death. 



To this we add, that Mr. Widdow, a mercer, affirms, that about the very 

 time that Mr. Corton was thought to have been bitten by Sutton's dog, a black 

 dog, which he verily believes to be the same, came and bit a whelp of his in his 

 shop. The next day the whelp ran mad up and down the house, and bit both 

 him and the maid ; him in the hand, and the maid in the leg, and died that 

 very day. About a month after he was bitten he found himself unwell, and was 

 troubled with a pain at his heart, and had a fearfulness and trembling upon him, 

 and got no rest for 3 nights, upon which he had himself blooded, and found 

 himself better ; his maid does not yet complain of any harm. 



[The author's speculations on this case are here omitted, as tending to throw 

 little light on the subject. It may, however, be proper to remark, that Dr. 

 Lister believed the patient's spittle to be infected with the canine poison ; an 

 opinion now generally received. Future opportunities will occur in the course 

 of this work, of offering some observations on the nature and treatment of this 

 mnost dreadful of all disorders.] -? 



A Continuation of a Discourse on Vision^ with an Examination of some late 



Objections against it. By JVilliam Briggs, M. D. and Fellow oftfw College of 



Physicians. N*' 147, p. 1 7 1 . ■• 



Having formerly given a specimen* of my thoughts on vision, I have been 



prevailed with to make this enlargement of the forementioned discourse, to the 



fuller explaining my thoughts, and the clearing some difficulties which have 



* In Mr. Hook's Philosophical Collections, N° 6, p. 540, of this vol. j 



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