1. A remar^aHe ^lation of a Man bitten 
a mad T>o md dying of the dip 
eafe called Hydrophobia, fent in a 
Letter to the Royal Society by thelearn^ 
W Martin Lifter dated from 
SIR, 
T have fornierly entertained the R.S. with odd cafes in 
^ Pbylick; as of the Stone cut from under the 
Tongue of a man 5 of Lumbriciteretes found in the Ancle of 
a Child; of a monftrous Worm vomlted,&c ; And I there- 
fore think by the kind acceptance of thofe, this 1 am about 
^^&mt <5txmiri Bit with a jiiad Dbgjand dying of the Sfi- 
feafe called Hydrophobia^ will be Wellcome. It is by Gods 
providence that it is a rare cafe^ for Galen calls it omnium 
morborumpejftmum : And finceitis in that great Phifitians 
opinion the very worft of difeafes, it is an extraordinary 
blelling to mankind that it happens fo rarely s efpecially if 
we confiderliow infinitely fond we are of lo poy fonous a 
Creature,aad what vaft numbers we keep out of meer wan- 
tonnefs a^nd pleafure, more then any real ufe or fervice 
they can do us. 
fames Carton^ a very ftrong and well built young man> 
was bit with a mad Dog in the right hand^ the wound heaPd 
of it felf^ and the thing was forgot even by himfelf and 
wife; but as he faid ("after the difeafeof-/^^^^/'^z'^rhad 
feiz d him, and that it was given him by me as a reafon of 
iiis not drinking) he bad told his wife he wondered why 
