100 HUNTING DIRECTORY. 



Symptoms of 



even vibrates along the back bone. The patient is 

 gloomy and inchned to soUtude, murmurs much, seems 

 lost in reflection, is forgetful, inattentive, and prone to 

 sleep ; at times agitating starts denote the mind to be 

 disordered ; by turns he is attentively watchful ; his 

 slumbers become disturbed, and suddenly awaking from 

 those, convulsive appearances soon follow. 



A deafness is sometimes complained of, the eyes are 

 watery ; the aspect sorrowful ; the countenance pale, and 

 the face contracted ; sweat breaks out about the temples ; 

 an unusual flow of saliva, slimy and viscid, at length 

 comes on with a dryness of the fauces, a fovilness of the 

 tongue, and a disagreeable smell (or rather fetid effluvia) 

 from the breath. As the symptoms already recited in- 

 crease, the second stage advances : a fever commences, 

 which at first is mild, but makes with gigantic strides the 

 most rapid advances to extremity ; it is accompanied 

 with hourly increasing horrors, and all the alarming con- 

 comitants of mental derangement. Wakefulness becomes 

 perpetual ; violent periodical agitations ensue ; the mind 

 is evidently more and more disturbed ; a delirium follows, 

 at which critical moment an invincible aversion to fluid, 

 glass, or any polished or shining body is plainly per- 

 ceived. A constriction of the gullet takes place, and an 

 incredible difficulty of swallowing ensues ; liquids are 

 offered, and are attempted to be taken, but the disgust 

 and loathing become so predominant, that they are most 

 violently declined : and this symptomatic dread and 

 aversion so wonderfully increases, that, upon the very 

 appearance of any watery fluid, the greatest horror conies 

 on, and the most shocking muscular distortions ensue: 



