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cmife the t)og bit hirrb whofe Spittle alcme to 
# be venomous to the touch • there are many 
ims ub. iivftaiices in Medical Hiftory. 2. He 
was moft like a Dogin the mouth:» vi:{, where 
are the proper Organs of the Saliva, j. The bite of a 
man fo bitten is alike in£e£tious bur otherwife innocent. 
But it may be askt how comes it to infeA his Spittle* 
and not other humors and th€ blood. I anfwer, The blood 
in part was^indouttedly afFeded, as the Symptoms a- 
tifing before the ^^'^^/p/'^w (which yet is the onely true 
f athznomick^ of the difeafej demonftrate. Again th€ 
blooif is not ow^/^fz«?r /as is generally thought)^ but niany 
^iftind liquors circulated together m (?;z£'/iPi^<7f rowz;?zo^ yef- 
Jils ; and fo rt might ipfedi that liquor, which it was moft 
a kin to> as the SaUva of a Dog to the ^^/^V^ of a man. 
Goncerningthe truth of that propofition* I have formerly 
writ fome things to you ; and more l intend to entertain 
you withi you will excufe me at prefentrf I do notthiak 
it convenient to anticipate my Papers. 
rork, March 
^6, iC^ 5. 
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sir; 
Your moft humble 
