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any kind of substance, considerable excretion of 

 viscid saliva from the mouth, incipient delirium, 

 and such a marked peculiarity of countenance, 

 as cannot well be mistaken. 



The appearance on dissection of the human 

 subject, as well as of brute animals which have 

 died of this disease, are as various in different 

 individuals as the symptoms ; sometimes pre- 

 senting an inflammation of the trachea or wind- 

 pipe, commencing at the epiglottis, with a deter- 

 mination of blood to the lungs ^sometimes an 

 inflammation of the tongue and fauces, extending 

 through the gullet, to the internal coat of the 

 stomach and small intestines occasionally an 

 inflammation of the membranes of the brain, with 

 some effusion into its cavities ; and in many 

 instances, no organ has appeared affected that 

 could at all account for the disease. 



1 was present at the examination of two per- 

 sons who had died of hydrophobia; one at the 

 London Hospital, the other at the anatomical 

 theatre, Great Windmill Street; in neither of 

 which did we trace any appearances that could 

 explain the phenomena of the disease ; and as this 

 has happened in some other instances, it would 

 lead us to hope, that hereafter some remedy may 

 be discovered which, applied vigorously at the 

 first approach of the symptoms, may arrest their 

 progress, and thus preserve the life of the patient. 



The cause of this most lamentable of all dis- 

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