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glad when it was over. We bid him suck the drink through a quill ; he tried, 

 but could not get it down by continual gulps, but stopped as soon as a very 

 little was passed, still crying out that it hurt him to swallow it. I presently de- 

 clared the case to be desperate. However, for the satisfaction of the relations, 

 blistering plasters were applied to the back and on each side of the neck ; and 

 a diuretic bolus of sal. succin. camphor, and conserv. lujul. was given every 6 

 hours ; for he seemed from the first of his complaint to have a difficulty of 

 urine. 



The next day, the 24th at noon ; I found him much worse ; he had raved all 

 night ; could not bear the sight of any thing white, and said, that if all the 

 women in the room who had white aprons would go out, he should be well pre- 

 sently. He said he would drink if we would give him some in a black cup ; 

 but when brought, made many excuses, and could not, though at the same 

 time complained he was dry, and pleased himself with talking of full pots. He 

 ate some bread and butter heartily, but vomited it up quickly, together with a 

 frothy slime. We dipped him in a tub of warm water ; he said he was not 

 afraid of water, and was quiet in it for a little while; but he soon fell into a 

 convulsion fit, which obliged us to take him out. I observed his eyes grow 

 more staring, and the pupil prodigiously enlarged. He was thrown continually 

 with such violence from place to place, that it was very hard to keep him in 

 bed; and quite tired and spent, fell into cold sweats, and died this day at 4 in 

 the afternoon. 



The next day I obtained leave to open the body. We examined the brain 

 throat, breast, and stomach, but met with no extraordinary appearance any 

 where, excepting that there was a great quantity of greenish viscid bile in the 

 stomach. 



The other patient was a very lusty vigorous man, of 45 years of age. He 

 had 10 weeks before been bitten in one of the fore-fingers near the nail, by 

 a little naked dog of the Guinea breed. On the 8th of November in the 

 morning he complained of a great sickness at stomach, and vomited green and 

 yellow choler. The next morning he took a dose of rad. ipecacuanh. While 

 he was vomiting, he complained of a difficulty of swallowing; and when 

 pressed to drink to work off the medicine, contrived himself a way of sucking 

 the gruel given him, through a piece of a tobacco pipe, but could not get down 

 above one pint; and though he afterwards often tried this contrivance, yet it 

 did not succeed. On the 10th he had 8 oz. of blood taken away at the arm ; 

 and he took a bolus of theriac. andromach. with lap. contrayerv. 



I came to him on the 1 1th; found him tied in his bed, raving m'ad, biting 

 and spitting at the by-standers, erying out murder, making an odd noise, as if 



