146 Facts relating to Hydropholia. 
biting this youth, the dog was confined in a small apartment. in lis 
owuer’s house, where he was seen by many persons, and where he - 
exhibited all the symptoms of hydrophobia. A person, in company 
with others, with a gun in hand, ascended the chamber stairs, dis- 
placed a part of. the floor, and through the aperture, shot and killed 
the dog. These facts are attested by a man who was an eye — 
and they are corroborated by many others. 
At the time of the bite, in 1807, W. C. is said to have hada fee- 
ble constitution, but it is testified on all hands that he grew up without 
sickness. It is said, he conducted strangely, by turns, sometime 
before his last sickness. ‘The disease appeared in him fifteen 
years after the bite, and was preceded by mental irregularity. He 
had a short season of strange excitement, during public worship 
on the Sabbath. At a neighbor’s house, the next day, he 
y jumped, screamed, broke windows, and ran out. at the door, — 
wid prea: nimbleness of foot. He soon became quiet and return- 
ed; and when his friends remonstrated with him for such comduct; 
he oad he could not avoid doing thus, for he had been ®bitten by # 
mad dog. During the progress of the disease, he gnashed his 
teeth ;* discharged large quantities of saliva, had distressing spasms, 
and was set on biting every body and every thing. The pillow ca-_ 
ses, through which he made holes, by taking them in his teeth and 
shaking them, are now to be seen. He spit on persons who came . 
in, and on all parts of the room. He was averse to swallowing @ny 
thing. He watched for opportunities to bite persons, and if be: 
bite any one,it seemed to afford him pleasure, and was followed by 
laughing.. He lived after his attack, fourteen or fifteen days. It re- 
quired four or five able men to attend upon him. He died Sept. Ist. 
1822, aged twenty six years. 
L. T. C., S. W. H. and C. C. a brother of W. C., were all 
tener by W. C. while attending on him ‘in_ his dest sickness. The 
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orchard at the time, and her ote seeing the dog in the act of biting the other, 
and alarmed, called her in. The circumstance she well remembérs, and says 
the bitten dog fled into her nae ia: pit of his owner’s, not more than four 
rods distant, and ran under the bed. The e stray dog afterwards appeared in front of 
the house and sat down. The gentleman pointed out the spot, described his ps 22 
ance, and said he had not a doubt of his being mad. If I do not misremember, he 
was destroyed. The bitten dog b it W. C. between two and three weeks after_he 
Berrian, his own bite. 
is stated also that he howled and pon but it is easy to suppose tat he 
innatoaien may convert groans and shrieks of distress, into imitative sounds. 
