Facts relating to-Hydrophobia: 151 
_ 3. 5. W. H., third victim, bitten by W. C.. in 1822. - Sick five 
days. Died five years after the bite, in 1827, J. 30 FO: & use 
. C. C., fourth victim, bitten by W.C. in 1822. Sick oe Sei 
sae Died short of six years after the bite; in 1828, AL.-37 | years. 
_ These facts are well established, and they preclude the 
if not the propriety, of referring the symptoms of their disease to what 
is.sometimes termed spontaneous hydrophobia. Nor did the previ- 
ous habits of life, in a majority of the patients, at all favor such a 
reference of their symptoms. 
C. C. was a constant spectator of his brother W. C. in bis, last 
sickness. They died in the same house. C. C. also watched with 
L. T. C. and S. W.H., and repeatedly told his wife, as she now 
affirms, that they were sick just as his brother was. A sensible man 
who witnessed three of the cases, says the persons were sick alike 
as nearly as the difference of natural dispositions, and habits of life 
would permit. Different individuals, who observed attentively two 
or three of the cases, bear the same testimony, in such oe as 
to include init all the four. With persons at all ac 
facts and the cases, it is now the general opinion ht tive 
“hydrophobia. 
~ All four dreaded confinement, and exhibited great widuneeahi ap- 
erehagiities in regard to persons, and circumstances which surrounded 
them. ‘There was uncommon agility and sprightliness i in their mo- . 
: tions, and an evident display of cunning, especially in their efforts to 
escape and to bite persons. Till within about two days of the termi- 
nation of the disease, the patients were not only inclined to escape, 
but a poeey object of the intended escape was to have opportunity 
to run. It is the opinion of the attendants, that if they could have 
escaped, they would have run till they dropped down dead. One, 
other things, pretended to have business at a place sixteen 
miles distant. He plead with his attendants to let him place his feet 
on the door steps, and assured them that if he might do it, he would 
run so that no man could overtake him till he had reached the place. 
The fears of all were that they should injure others. One was, at 
-times, afraid of receiving injury from others ; but this fact, it is be- 
lieved, may be explained, by a reference to circumstances peculiar 
to himself. All that is claimed, however, is that there was a general 
concurrence in the class of symptoms to which allusion has been 
made. From momentary agitations, connected with slight mental 
aberration, the spasms gradually increased, in duration and force, to 
the last. One attendant says the strength of the patient seemed to 
