gS THE ISLAND OF JAVA. 
' spoonful of Avater which he refused, bul, on being told it 
' was gin, he endeavoured with great difficulty to swallow 
' it. When a glass of water was presented to him, the most 
' ghastly spasmodic convulsions were observable in his face, 
" and over his whole body, accompanied with such a degree 
" of terror that he exclaimed, Watej^ ! Oh Jesus, have mercy 
" on me ! His terror increased on Aviping his bloody hands 
" with a wet napkin, when, in convulsive agonies, he called 
*' out, Oh God, water ! Perceiving clearly that hydrophobia 
" had supervened from the bite received in anger, we re- 
" solved to treat him accordingly, but he died in the after- 
noon of the same day/' 
That the bite of a man is attended with very malignant 
symptoms Avas a doctrine Avhich prevailed in ancient times. 
Pliny classes it among the very Avorst of Avounds given in this 
manner. Morsus hominmn inter asperrimos qiioque numeratur. 
And it appears to be a Avell authenticated fact, that many ani- 
mals, beside dogs, Avhen highly enraged, become morbid and ac- 
quire the poAver of^ communicating the infection by their bite. 
Dr. Le Dulx mentions in the same paper several instances of 
hydrophobia succeeding to the bite of enraged animals, as 
the case of a boy bit by a duck Avhich he had disturbed in 
its amours, and of a feeder of cocks aa ho, being pecked in 
the hand by one of these animals in separating it from its 
antagonist, died under every symptom of hydrophobia and 
madness. The bite of the common domestic cat, rendered 
furious by provocation, is well knoAvn to produce hydro- 
phobia. In Avhat manner this extraordinary state of mor- 
bidity, in the animal body is generated remains yet an ar- 
