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the Hydiophobia. 



will be completely filled and distended by an incongruous 

 mass. The lungs will usually present appearances of 

 inflammation, more intense in one, and generally the left 

 lung, than in the other. Some particular points and 

 patches will be of a deep colour, while the neighbouring- 

 portions are unaftected. The sublinqual and parotid 

 glands will be invariably enlarged ; and there will also 

 be a certain portion of inflammation, sometimes intense, 

 and at other times assuming only a faint blush, on the 

 edge of the epiglottis, or on the rima glottidis, or in the 

 angle of the larynx at the back of it." 



When the human species become unhappily the sub- 

 jects of this calamity, though in particular instances 

 some variation may be observed, yet the first symptoms 

 are generally the same ; these are a torpid disquietude 

 in the wound (or seat of injury), attended with slight in- 

 tervening itchings, ultimately amounting to pain, and 

 much resembling rheumatic affection. It continues to 

 extend itself to the surrounding parts ; and, at length, 

 from the extremities it expands its poisonous power to 

 the viscera ; the cicatrice, if there has been a wound, 

 begins to swell, inflammation hourly increases, till, at 

 length, a serous bloody iclior is discharged, and this 

 alone may be considered the primary and invariable prog- 

 nostic of certain hydrophobia. These leading symptoms 

 soon become progressively general, bearing with them 

 every appearance of confirmed rheumatism ; they are fluc- 

 tuating, quick, acute, and of the spasmodic, convulsive 

 kind ; they suddenly attack the patient, severely affect- 

 ing the head, neck, and principal joints ; a dull, drowsy 

 pain often seizes the head, neck, breast, abdomen, and 



