Facts relating to Hydrophobia. 155. 



2. Hydrophobia, from giving medicine to a rabid animal. Time 

 of the virus lurking, eight or ten months. 



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 suppo^d to have caught the infec- 

 tion which resulted in his death.* 



3. 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- 

 scious of his danger ; he was a pious man, and was supported by 

 religion 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 resist. "f 



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, Nevi^ York, where she was at play, and lacera- 

 ted her nose severely. The child soon recovered of her wound, and 



* Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post, Jan. 7, 1832. 

 t New York Observer, July 30, 1831. 



