150 Facts relating to Hydrophobia. 
"The following are some of the facts as stated to me by his physi- 
cian,* and corroborated by his widow, and those who attended him: 
The sight of water produced a recurrence of distressing spasms, oF 
in the language of attendants, made him rave. In the intervals of 
s, he was rational. In one, he requested his father-in-law to 
remove and hide his razors, for he did not know what he might be 
left to do in his turns. In another, he gave this caution to his wife. 
1 wish you to keep away from me when I have these turns ; — 
not why it is, but I want to bite, and I fear I shall bite you.” His 
attendants think he strove to curb the disposition to bite. It was how- 
ever very evident. A neighbor one evening entered the room. On 
seeing him, he immediately said in a pleasant way, ‘¢ How do you 
do, Mr. B————? I am glad-to see you. Come here; I want to 
shake hands with you.” The neighbor approached, and extended 
_ hbishand. The sick man seized it instantly, and with a convulsive 
_ spring, rose from the lying posture, and drew it to his mouth. The 
attendants who stood near, and expected this result of shaking hands, 
instantly seized Mr. B , and forced him from the sick man’s 
grasp before he was bitten. He talked much about biting, and the 
attendants, as usual in such cases, imagined that he growled, snapped 
and barked, like a dog. The shaking of pillows and bed clothes in 
his teeth, was a frequent exercise. His eyes were glassy and wa- 
tery. He spit much, the night after he left the bed, and during»his 
sickness. He spit to all parts of the room, and watched the oppor- 
tunity to spit on persons who came iato it. During his sickness, and 
peed the night before his death, he screamed and belies dread= 
Sip. 
On oe supposition that shies are to be regarded as cases s of real 
hydrophobia, the facts will stand thus : 
1. W.C., first victim, bitten by a rabid dog in 1807. Sick Shae 
—_ Died fifteen years after the bite, in 1822, AE. 26 years. % 
. L. T. C., second victim, bitten by W. C. in 1822. Sick four- 
teen days. Died short of four years after the bite, in 1826, #. (32 
et 
* Dr alin attending physician in the last case, intended to 
the facts and draw up the statement e had conversed on the rhea and agreed 
in our views of its importance, and he had consented to undertake it 
moval prevented. I shall always regret that the task pater sibel oo sone 
member of the medical profession. 
