Aremarkable account of an Hydrophobia, in a Let- 
ter from Vr Roger Howman^ Phyfician in Nor- 
wich^ to William Briggs M. D. Fellow of the 
Coll. ofVhyf Lond. andPhyfician of St. Tho. 
Hofpitall. 
Sir. - -*->a..^-.T. 
I Hadlongfince fif bufinefs4iad not prevented me,) 
returnd you thanks for the Philof<>phicail CalU^ions 
you fent me; and therein, particularly, for your nerv 
Theory of Vifwn.io highly rational & latisfadtory. Among 
your many other exad: and curious obfervations, I can't 
pafs by that remarkable relation of i\i^Hydrofhobia{gi\cvL 
by the learned and ingenious Dr Lifter^) without ap- 
plauding the curiofity bf the obferver, in his moft exadt 
hiftorie of that difeas >• and having lately had an oppor- 
. tunity of making fome remarks upon a cafe not much 
differing (tho' the occafion is more rare,) the biting of a 
mad Fox j I thought my felf obliged to fatisfie your curio- 
fitietherewith (if worth reading,/ as foUoweth. 
On Wedndday at evening the i. ofOdob. laft pafl 
I w^s called to a patient in this City, who about 6 weeks 
before had been bitten with a mad Fox on the tight hand*- 
he began to be indifpofed the Saturday before with 
running painSi yet fo well as to be abroad next day at 
Church: on Munday his painS grew more troublefome, 
and the day following, mtich worfe, efpecially, on his 
right hand, arm,fhQulder and back, but not to confine- 
ment: on Wcdnefday ("I know not by whofe advice J 
he took a dofc of the common purging fpirit of Scurvy- 
grafs , which gave him 7 or 8 ftools, and made him very 
faint, and weak 5 io I found him; and complaining that 
