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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, delirium, and 

 lucid intervals. The first spasms were of short duration, and attend- 

 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, by 

 W. C. and after a sickness of two vi^eeks, 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 decline to 

 swallow the drink. So strong was his aversion to swallowing, that 

 a near relative questions whether he could swallow. Another says, 

 that drinks were sometimes forced down ; but he shuddered at swal- 

 lowing. 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 I am 

 sorry ; but I could not avoid it ; I hiust either die myself or bite 

 you." If he had not been confined, says one, I have no doubt, he 

 would have bitten every person In the room. A part of the time, it 

 required seven able men to keep him to his bed and in his chamber. 

 It 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 whirl suddenly 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 degree 

 of aberration which might be supposed to arise from the violent paroxysms of the 

 disease in a very strong muscular subject. L. T. C. and C. C. particularly were 

 very powerful men, and C. C, was unrivalled as a wrestler. 



