Vi De Morfn mnenofo Canis rabidi. 
IN the Year 1688 there was brought to us for Cure 
a Child of aboat Three Years of Age, who had 
jull then meived a krge Wound 'upon the Mafleter 
Mufcle by the bite of a Dog. The Child was fitting 
upon the Threlhold of the Door, and a Dog came run- 
ning by him, upon which another Dog comes out upon 
the former, and in the fcufFle the Ch;ld received this 
Accident from the ftrange Dog, whom the People fup^ 
pafed to be Mad, as it after was made evident. 
The Wound we treated with Digeftives for feme time, 
Sutures were forborn, though otherwifc necefTary, that 
the Sanation thereof being defer'd, the conrradkd Ve- 
Bom might have the freer cgrefi thereat. There Tv^as in 
^ ftiort time difcharged a very laudable P^/if, a'nd the 
Wound incarned as 6ft as we could defire; there was 
ma fupervenient Humour ,or Inflammation that attended, 
mot any other apparent $yniptotii that , could preftge 
whatfoHowed, ' :^ -^- • - 
In about three Weekstime^ we had incarned,and briougbt 
ever ar very firm and fecmiy Cicatrix; and in about 
IWQ days after Cicatrizing the Wound, the Child was 
feized with a Fever, a difordcrly Pulfe, and Palpitation 
ef lb€ Heart : The Night enfuiog he grew Delirioia, 
and tlK fucceeding Day the Malignity had made fo vi- 
rulent an impreffion upon the. Animal Spirits, as did ex- 
cite very ftrong irritations in the Members of the Body^ 
,by GonveUing of their Mufcular Fibres. Neither was the 
Bjrain anc|. its parts freed from the fame Morbid taint, 
which mal^ifefted its fei^beity in a moft ftrange and un- 
ufual diftortion of the Eyjes, from a confuted and irre- 
gular cxpanfiojo of the Pptick Nerve, attended with an 
extraordinary fiercenefs m the whole Vifage, continual 
Vigiliesa 
