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the full time was delivered through an abscess of the left hypocondrium, of a 

 fine boy, who was baptized, and lived a year and a half, but the mother died the 

 third day in great agonies. 



The anomalous blackness of the girl's face, is now divided into a few dark, 

 cloudy specks ; which appear but seldom, and nothing so livid as formerly. 



I am told by a sportsman, that he lately found in the paunch of a hare, two 

 full grown young ones among the intestines, but almost rotten ; as also 3 imma- 

 ture embryos in the uterus. The former were certainly foetuses broken out of 

 the womb, &c. 



u4n Account of three Cases of the Hydrophobia. By R. Mead, M. D. F. R. S. 



N°323, p. 433. 



The symptoms from the bite of a mad dog are so surprising and terrible, 

 that it is hardly possible to describe the agony of a patient in this unhappy 

 condition. I have lately had the opportunity to see 2 instances of this case. 

 The first was of a lad, about Q years of age, a very stout boy. April the 20th, 

 a mad bitch of the mongrel kind was hunted in the street, he struck at her 

 with a stick, on which, flying in his face, she bit him in the right cheek, 

 which was torn with a large wound to the middle of the nose. A surgeon 

 cured the wound in about 14 days, by applying for the first three days, theriac. 

 andromach. in sp. vin. and afterwards dressing it with liniment, arcaei and 

 balsam, terebinthin. No other care was taken, only a bolus of theriac. andro- 

 mach. was given him every night, while under cure, and soon after he was 

 bitten, he was persuaded to eat the whole liver of the bitch fried. 



He continued very brisk and well till the 22d of May ; when he seemed dull 

 and sick, would eat no dinner, excepting a little boiled spinage, walked out 

 in the afternoon, and in the evening complained of his stomach and head ; his 

 mother gave him a small glass of brandy, for he would drink nothing else. 

 In the night he was very bad, started often, and screamed out as in an agony, 

 especially when desired to drink, and complained miserably whenever he made 

 urine, saying it hurt him. The next morning he vomited up the herbs he had 

 eaten the day before, unaltered. I was sent for that day in the afternoon, and 

 found him in a perfect agony, all in a sweat, trembling, tossing himself up 

 and down, talking continually, looking very wild ; his pulse low, and sometimes 

 quicker, then again slower : his urine of the night before, of the usual colour. 

 I desired him to drink ; he took a little in his mouth, but as it was going down, 

 he threw it out with violence, saying it hurt him ; and praying that he might 

 take no more. We over persuaded him to hold a little in his mouth, and 

 swallow it by degrees, and gently ; he did so with a little more ease, but was 



