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he coughed up something from the throat ; this motion I had also observed in 

 the boy, and I suppose this is what some authors have called barking. He 

 said he would drink, if we would unbind him, and give him water ; but as 

 soon as it came to his mouth, he threw away the cup with the greatest fury 

 imaginable, and grew so unruly, that he was with much difficulty tied down 

 again. I observed that he had a palsy of his right arm, for he moved this only 

 by the help of the other ; and those who attended him had taken notice that 

 this symptom began the day before, and that at the same time he had endea- 

 voured to read, but could not, complaining of a mist before his eyes. As he 

 seemed afraid of every body, so he showed the greatest enmity to those, for 

 whom at other times he used to have the most love and respect. I ordered a 

 surgeon to take away 20 oz. of blood at his arm : and observed it to be very 

 thick and black. He was very tame after this for a few minutes, but fell again 

 into his outrageous fit, in which he soon laid himself down quite spent, 

 and died. 



Since these accidents I have had an account sent me by a surgeon from 

 Stamford in Lincolnshire, of a young man of about 18 years of age, who 

 died hydrophohous by the bite of a mad fpx that had been bitten by a mad 

 dog. The symptoms appeared 3 months after the wound, which was on the 

 back of the hand, and being healed by the application of theriaca andromach. 

 had left a small black scab behind. Three days before his death he was seized 

 with a fever, for which he was blooded, vomited^ and blistered ; he bit to 

 pieces the glass in which the drink was given him. When dissected, the fauces 

 were found very much inflamed ; the left lobe of the lungs black, with the ve- 

 ^cles full of black blood ; the surface in some places, which the blackness had 

 not covered, appearing blistered, as if raised by cantharides. The liver was 

 hard, and of a yellow bilious colour. During the whole violence of the dis- 

 temper, the penis was observed to be continually erected, and as hard as a bone. 

 This symptom is particularly taken notice of by Cselius Aurelianus. 



•The surgeon who opened the body, with his knife slightly wounded his fore- 

 finger, and was surprised to find that it festered, and gave him much more pain 

 that a greater cut had at other times done. This I the rather take notice of, 

 because something of the same nature happened to the surgeon who dissected 

 my patient. His hand the following night was taken with an erysipelas, at- 

 tended with great tension and pain : this was owing to a little wound made in 

 one of his fingers a day or two before, from which, in turning over the parts, 

 he had rubbed off the plaster; and it went not off without th§ continued ap- 

 plication of cooling and discutient medicines. 



From all these accounts, it may not perhaps be wron^ tocSUclude, that the 



