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from the place where he was too carelessly confined ; and, by a rotten back win- 

 dow, entered Dr. S.'s stable, fell upon his horse, and bit him in many places, 

 as the shoulder, breast, and right nostril ; which was indeed much torn. He 

 bled largely. The town being early alarmed by this mad dog, and the horse 

 being found loose, his collar broke to pieces, wounded in many places, and 

 much blood scattered up and down the stable, it was too justly concluded the 

 dog had fallen upon him. 



According to Desault's method, and what Dr. James said, in a letter Dr. S. 

 had from him on another occasion, would effectually prevent the ill consequences 

 of this bite ; he immediately ordered the wounds to be well rubbed with a mer- 

 curial ointment, ex axung. pore. jvj. argent, viv. jij. About §ij. were at 

 times expended. Next morning he was bled 2lb. or more ; after which he gave 

 him in milk* lichen ciner. terrest. 3vj. pip. nig. 5iiij. 5 mornings successively; 

 which he repeated at the end of a fortnight for 4 mornings more. 



As the pulv. antilyssus was not in our shops, and no one in town knew the 

 lichen but himself, he went with his servant Sunday forenoon, the day of his 

 horse's misfortune, to seek it. What he found was, he fears too young ; for it 

 seemed just coming from the earth, and the leaves were scarcely one third as 

 large as its full growth. He got what he hoped might be sufficient ; and, after 

 cleansing, perhaps too hastily dried it at the fire, that it might be ready for use 

 the next day. 



The wounds healed up soon, without any other application ; and the horse fed 

 uncommonly hearty after a day or 2, during which the fright had made him 

 uneasy and fretful, and seemed to improve considerably in every respect. He 

 omitted riding him for 20 days ; but about the 20th rode him 2 short journeys 

 only. He travelled chearful and brisk, and he took care not to heat him. He 

 saw him every day, but could in no respect discover any thing amiss. 



Dec. 25, two days before the full moon, his servant told him, that in the 

 morning he trembled much on entering the horse-pool, and refused to drink at 

 the watering trough ; but in the evening drank heartily at another well. This 

 alarmed him ; but considering that horses frequently refuse to drink there, and 

 that he drank in the evening, he was somewhat easy ; but ordered the servant 

 if he refused next morning drinking at one, to try him at the other ; and if he 

 refused at both, to let him immediately know it. 



Dec. 26, as soon as he entered the horse-pool, he trembled all over in a most 

 surprizing manner, and would by no means attempt to drink. The servant im- 

 mediately returned with him. Dr. S. ordered him to be led into a small pool of 

 rain water which stood in the court. The trembling returned ; every muscle 



* See these Trans. N" 237, p. 49, anno 1697.— Orig. 



