144 Facts relating to Hydrophobia. 
that no such case has ever occurred.* As to the time during which 
the virus may lie dormant, popular opinion is perhaps in one extreme, 
and philosophical caution in the other. It is stated that ‘‘ the devel- 
opment of the morbid symptoms rarely takes place before the fortieth — 
or after the sixtieth day. = There are, however, very many well at- 
tested cases in which the virus has lain much longer in the system, oad 
the limit seems not to be, as yet, definitely established. 
Proof sheets of the annexed statement, having been communicated 
to a nuinber of medical gentlemen of high standing, most of thent 
were of the opinion, that although the facts stated in the Chester 
cases are not, diagnostically, conclusive, they are interesting, and 
also important, in as much as they may induce caution in those who 
attend upon hydrophobic patients. So rare: is hydrophobia in this 
part of the United States, that although the gentlemen consulted had 
practised medicine extensively, most of them for many years, in five 
nt geographical locations, remote from each other, only two 
ad ever seen a case of undoubted hydrophobia. Qne of 
theset had attended on two unequivocal cases, both of which termi- 
nated fatally ;. and this physician considers the facts that occurred at 
Chester to be such as belong to hydrophobia, and that there is noth- 
ing in the cases inconsistent with this supposition. The narrative is 
given, however, not as a medical, but as a popular statement, believ- 
ed to. be true by judicious ‘people, personally acquainted with the 
eases. ‘I'he facts in Part II. are added for illustration and sear 
ison.— Editor of the Am. Jour. of Science and Arts. - 
Statement of facts by the Rev. William Case. 
PART I. 
TO PROFESSOR SILLIMAN. 
Chester, October 14, 1831. 
Dear Sir,—In compliance with your request, I have cnioweala 
collect the facts, respecting the supposed cases of hydrophobia in ” 
» Vol. VI >P. ty 
rg Soe ia Americana 
i a Eli Ives, Professor of of Theory and Practice in the Medical Institution of Yale 
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