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bite in these three cases, drew fresh blood from the hand or wrist, 
and this fact is attested by many witnesses. . These three cases were 
preceded by mental anxiety, and followed by spasms, ——— 
lucid intervals. The first spasms were of short-duration, . 
ed by jumping, hopping, and screaming. Successive spasms con- 
tinued longer and became more severe. The eyes of all assumed 
a-glassy and watery appearance. What I have termed, discharge of 
saliva, was, in all these cases, called frothing at the mouth. 
L. T. C. was a strong athletic man, he was bitten in 1822, ‘ 
W. C. and after a sickness of two weeks, died March 13, 1826, . 
aged: thirty two years. Some weeks before his confinement, he 
exhibited symptoms of mental aberration.* He would hop back- 
ward and forwards, and talk incoherently, for a few minutes, and 
‘ then say he was sorry he conducted so, but he could not avoid it. 
His attendants say, the taking of water or drinks made him rave. 
A spectator observes, that he sometimes called for drinks, when it 
seemed as if he thought they would be refreshing, and do him 
good ; but no sooner had he filled his mouth with the fluid, than 
he would spirt it in the face of him who offered. it, and declin to 
swallow the drink. So strong was his aversion to swallowing, that 
a near relative questions whether-he could swallow. Another say: 
that drinks were sometimes forced down ;. but he shuddered at swal- 
* lowe ‘With his mouth he seized by the arm, a person attending 
upon him, and through thick clothing, left upon his flesh the print‘of 
his teeth. He immediately said, “* Now I have hurt you, and Pam 
sorry; but I could not avoid it; I must either die myself or bite 
you.” If he had not been confined, says one, I have no doubt, he 
— have bitten every person inthe room. A part of the time, it 
seven able men to keep him to his bed and ‘in his chamber. 
is said that he was not known to walk to, or from the bed ; but al- 
ways leaped off and upon the floor ; he would rhs] suideniy; around, 
and shift his position on the bed, and sit on his feet, and the by-stand- 
ers imagined that he imitated the motions and the barking of a dog. 
He frothed at his mouth and ran out his tongue. He spirted drinks 
* It is not supposed that there was any proper delirium, but merely that — 
of aberration which might be supposed to arise from the te paroxysms 
disease in a very strong muscular subject. L.T.C.a c pater were 
very powerful men, and C. C. was unrivalled as a es 
