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A Lunar Eclipse, March 17 th, 1764. 

 True time. 

 At 11'' 14™ 45' Beginning of the shadow, doubtful. 

 12 59 30 Greatest obscuration 8 dig. 23'. 

 14 29 30 End of the dense shadow. 



A Solar Eclipse April 1, 17 64. 

 True time. 



jQh 21™ 50' A.M. Beginning of the eclipse. 



11 11 46 ... . Digits eclipsed 6. 



11 43 6 . . . . Greatest obscuration 9 dig. 



1 23 13 p. M. End of the eclipse. 



Occulta tion of Spica Virginis by the Moon, April 15, I764. 

 llh 21™ 42' Immersion in the moon's bright limb. 



XXI. On the Case of a Supposed Hydrophobia. By James, Earl of Morton, 

 President of the Royal Society, p. 139. 



Having read in the Public Advertiser of June 22, 1764, that a person who, 

 in consequence of the bite of a mad dog, was affected with the hydrophobia, 

 had been cured at Padua by draughts of vinegar, I was willing to get the best 

 information of the true state of the fact. Accordingly I wrote to my acquaint- 

 ance general Graeme, respecting it ; and received from him the inclosed account. 

 The account in the Public Advertiser, being so very circumstantial, induced me 

 at first to believe it might be well founded; in which case, so valuable a discovery 

 ought to have been published every where: but, as it turns out to be altogether 

 a fallacy, the public ought equally to be undeceived. Mobton. 



Venice, December 8, 176^. 



The history of the hydrophobia cured by vinegar is equivocal, or perhaps 

 altogether a mistake; and the process was what follows. Dr. Bertossi, physician, 

 of Padua, came to Venice, in the last spring, and brought an account to Dr. 

 Reghellini, that 3 hydrophobous persons, all bitten by the same mad dog, had 

 been treated in the hospital at Padua, 2 of whom died, and only one escaped, 

 and that the person who survived was cured bv Dr. Leonissa with vinegar, 

 which he was made to swallow every 3 hours in doses of about 4 oz. at a time. 

 This cure, performed by Dr. Leonissa, was suggested to him by a student of 

 physic at Udine, who observed, in the Friuli, a hydrophobous person, who was 

 cured by means of a mistake, that happened in the family, by giving him 

 vinegar to drink instead of water. Dr. Reghellini, willing to be thoroughly 

 satisfied, whether this acceptable discovery was strictly true, immediately wrote 

 to a friend of his, a physician at Padua, stating all the circumstances, which 

 had been related to him by Dr. Bertossi, and desiring to know if the fact really 



