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2. Hydrophobia, from giving medicine to a rabid animal. ‘Time 
of the virus lurking, eight or ten months. me 
Mr. David Rock, of Bedford, Pa., died of hydrophobia, January. 
1, 1832, Eight or ten months previous to his death, he attempted 
to administer medicine to a sick heifer, which subsequently proved 
to have been mad. In the act of giving the medicine, he wounded 
one of his fingers, and thereby is supposed to have caught the infec- 
tion which resulted in his death.* 
_ 8. Hydrophobia, from the bite of a mad dog. Time of the virus 
lurking, about five weeks. 
The subject was Mr. Street, who resided near Sharon, Hamilton - 
County, Ohio. Near the first of June, 1831, he observed a dog in 
the stye, biting his swine. In attempting to drive him out, the dog 
flew at Mr. S., and bit him severely. Nine days after, one of the 
swine died in a rabid state. Nearly thirty-five days after, on retir- 
ing to bed, Mr. S. complained of being unwell. The succeeding 
morning, on putting his hands into water, for the purpose of washing, 
he was seized with violent spasms, and forced to recoil several pa- 
ces. After repeated trials, he succeeded in washing himself 
He is represented as having been, from this moment, fully con- 
ious of his danger; he was a pious man, and was supported by 
eligion in his extremest suffering, and in the hour of dissolution. 
“The strange spectacle was here presented to the living, of a man 
in his full strength, who, while walking about the room, conversing 
with his friends, and exhorting them to prepare for death, and yet 
perfectly conscious that he must die in a few hours, was foaming at 
the mouth, and exhibiting, by the convulsions of his whole frame, 
and the horrible distortion of his countenance, and the unnatural ex- 
pression of his eyes, which seemed ready to burst from their sockets, 
that a terrible poison was drinking up his spirits, the progress of whose 
destructive energy, no power on earth was able to Ce hg eee ee 
4, Hydrophobia, from the bite of a mad dog. Time of the virus 
lurking, fifty-four days. 
The subject was a little girl, named Johnson, two and a half 
years old. On the 20th of April, a small dog entered the yard, No. 
138 Christie Street, New York, where she was at play, and lacera- 
ted her nose severely. ‘The child soon recovered of her wound, and 
ane FR 
* Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post, Jan. 7, 1832. 
+ New York Observer, July 30, 1831. 
