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oi one of the neareft Relations of mine in thefe parts/ome 
few years ago, upon the bite of a Mad Dog, which may 
perhaps yield you fome Speculations not unacceptable, 
and help to difcover the fubtilty of the Poifon of thofe 
Creatures, and how it afFefts Man. 
In 1695. my Brother had a pretty Grey-hound Bitch 
that had Whelps 5 foon after came a Mad Dog and bit 
this Bitch unknown to the Family, upon which about g: 
weeks after (he run mad, and they were forced to kill 
her 5 but faving her ^Whelps, becaufe that no flgn of 
Madneft appeared in them, in about 3 weeks /more they . 
all puird out one another s Throats except one,, which, 
efcaping, ray Brother's men valued and .nourifli'd, made 
much of it, and rtroak'd it : at length, perceiving that it: 
could not lap, nor fwallow any < liquid thing, they pot 
their Fingers in its Mouthy and felt its Tongue and 
Throat, but finding nothing wrong therein as far as tliey^ 
could difcover, they let it alone a day or two longer^ 
and then it ran mad and dy'd. 
They being thus dead were foon forgot, until that 
about 3 weeks after, my Brothers Servant, a moft ftrong; 
laborious Man, tiiat had frequently put his Fingers into 
the Whelps Mouth, begun to be Troubled now and then' 
with an exceeding acute pain in the Head, fometimes - 
once, fometimes twice a day, fo very vehement that he ^ 
was forc'd to hold his Head with both his hands, to hin- 
der it. from riving in two, which fits commonly held hini ■ 
about an hour at a time, in which his Throat would con- 
trad, as he faid, and his Pulfe tremble, and his Eyes be- 
hold every thing of a fiery red colour. Thus was he tor- 
mented for a~ whole week together, but being of a ilrong 
conftitution, and returning to his Labour in every Inter- 
val, he fweat and wrought it off, without any Phyfic. 
But it went worfe with one of his fellow Servants, a 
young Apprentice of about 14 years of age, who had- 
made as much of the Whelp as he, but was not of (a. 
ftrong 
