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7 or 8 stools, and made him very faint and weak. So I found him, and com- 

 plaining that he could not use his right hand, it beginning to be paralytic, 

 though his pains were much abated there, and where else they had been most 

 troublesome; only on the lower parts, or small of his back, which soon after 

 vanished also. He had bled freely at the wounds the fox had made, and they 

 healed without any farther trouble; only at intervals a little pain on that hand 

 and arm. Though the aquae pavor, or dread of water, did not yet appear, his 

 heat was much increased, and his pulse intermitted every 5th or 6th stroke, on 

 the right side only : he also looked ghastly and thin, but his eyes sparkling and 

 fiery. I prescribed the best temperate antispasmodic and antiparalytic remedies 

 to be mixed with the specifics of common use in a hydrophobia. Next morn- 

 ing he complained his night had been restless, that then he had wholly lost the 

 use of his right hand, and though the pains were more abated, yet he was very 

 hot and uneasy : his pulse was then much stronger than over night, but inter- 

 mitting on the right side only as before ; his countenance was somewhat more 

 ghastly, yet his veins very full as in the beginning, and increase of a fever; 

 and no hydrophobia appearing, I advised him to bleed 6 or 7 ounces at the 

 left arm, and the continuance of what I had prescribed before; he bled 8 ounces 

 very freely, the blood well coloured, but very thick. In the afternoon, going 

 into the country to visit some patients, to whom I was pre-engaged there, I 

 could make no further observations till my return on Friday the 6th, at night ; 

 not many hours before he died. On Thursday after I left him, the great 

 symptom appeared, and in my absence another was consulted, who gave him 

 many remedies. At my return his heat was very great, his pulse very high, 

 and intermitted then on both wrists, and if any thing were offered him to 

 drink standing or sitting, he started as if his head would have fallen backwards 

 off his shoulders; but when laid on his pillow, he could, though with great 

 difficulty and uneasiness, at times get down a spoonful : he looked then very 

 thin and ghastly, and seemed shy or afraid of every body that came sud- 

 denly near him, telling them they stifled him, or stopped or hindered his 

 breath in coming so hastily to him. His reason was all along very good: his 

 voice was broken and imperfect, as of those persons whose tongue and other 

 organs of speech are turning paralytic, I saw him again at ] O that night, when 

 all symptoms were growing worse ; yet he could then walk out of one room 

 into another, with very little help; but between 12 and 1 next morning he 

 died, without any convulsive motions, sighs, or groans; as if in a moment 

 there had been a total paralysis. From whence it is most observable, l. That 

 as the pains, which were like those in a rheumatism, abated, the paralysis and 

 fever increased. 2. As the fever increased, the intermission of the pulse grew 



