Vigllies, and a conftant Trepidation, with a reiterated 
/Hatching up of the lower Mandible, making figns as if 
he would have bit at any thing that was offtrcd hhn. 
His Voice was uttered with a Canine hoarftnefs, and iiad 
an extraordinary rtfemblance to the barking of a Dog. 
He was moreover infefted from that rime with a Sifnnd' 
iuSy and foaming at the Mouth. Thus he continued 
the mod part of the Day : being with him for a comi- 
,derable time, to obferve thefe wonderful Phanomena^ I 
took the occafion (out of Curiofity) to^prefent a Look- 
ing-glafs before him^ but found him fo extreamiy di- 
ft^rbed thereat, that I immediately took it away : He 
v^as no fooner fenfible of the Refledion, than that he 
threw his Head backwards with great violence, and con- 
tinued barking, and fnapping at every thing near him : 
In the Evening, notwithftanding fuch Alexipharmicks as 
had been exhibited, he funk under the Oppreffion of 
tl^fe cruel Symptoms. I would very defiroufly have 
opened his Body, but it was forbidden by bis Parents. 
The Abdomen^ I perceived, was exceffively inflated, his 
limbs convuls'd , and the fuperfice of the Body of a 
Jivkl coloar ; the Mufcles of the Face were drawn into 
fuiCsh a form as did mizXy xti^xtiknidL Spafmm Cinicus, 
VL Solutio Problematic Florentint de Tefti- 
gorioj D. ac St. S. Conimunicata. 
PRodnt Florentine Anno M DC XCIf . Mnigma Geo^ 
mtricu^ Tefikvtdtnk Hemiff hcerkcs 
Teftitudine quatmr (Zfmlihu^ fimUA pofitu 
fene/lrisy rdiqm Hewifphierka fa^erficHs fit qtiadratur^ 
