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II. The Cafe of a Lad bitten by a mad Dog, 
communicated in a Letter from Mr. Ed- 
ward Nourfe, F. R. S. and Chirurgeon to 
St. Bartholomew's Hofpital, to Cromwell 
Mortimer, M. 2). Seer. R. S. 
'Dear SIR 9 
P Refuming that the following Cafe will be accept- 
able to the Society, I beg Leave to communicate, 
it through your Hands. I am 
Tour mofl obedient Servant , 
x8 Jan, 1736-7* 
Edward Nourfc 
VTephen Bellafs, aged about Sixteen, feme time in 
^ "June 1 737, was bit by a mad Dog through the 
Nail of his Right Thumb : I was called immediately 
upon the Accident, when I propofed to make a Li- 
gature above, and to cauterize the wounded Part; but 
that not being complied with, I defired Mr. Gernum 
the Apothecary y who was prefent, to make up the 
Remedy mentioned by Rampier in our Tranfac- 
tionSy N Q 237 [and 443.] {viz.) Lichenviner.ter- 
reflr'tSy Riper, nig. act §i . f.Rnlvis, Of this Powder 
be took a Dram, within an Hour after he was bit 5 
repeated it the next Morning before he fet out for 
Gravefendy where he was ten Days, and dipt in the. 
fait Water every Day; during which Time he re- 
peated the Medicine Night and Morning, and eon- 
’tinned fo to do for forty Days. This Boy was with- 
out 
