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When DilTeded, the Fauces were found very much infla- 
med ^ The left Lobe of the Lungs blick, with the Veficles 
full of black Blood ^jThe furface inforae places, which the 
blacknefs had not cover’d, appearing Biiftered, as if raifed 
by Cantharides. The Liver was hard and of a yellow bi- 
lious Colour. 
During the whole Violence of the Diifemper, the Peuis 
was obferved to be continually ereded, and as hard as 
a Bone. This Symptom is particularly taken notice of 
by Colins Aurellamis, 
The Surgeon who opened the Body, with his Knife 
flightly wounded his Fore-finger, and wasfarpriz'd to find 
that it feftered, and gave him much more Pain than a 
greater Cut had at other times done. This I the rather 
take notice of, becaufe fomething of the fame nature hap- 
pen'd to the Surgeon who Difleded my Patient. His 
Hand the following Night was taken with an Erjfipelas^ 
attended with great Tenfion and Pain; This was owing 
to a little Wound made in one of his Fingers a Day or 
two before, from which, in turning over the Parts, he had 
rubb’d off the PJaifter^ and it went not off without the Con- 
tinued Application of Cooling and Difeutient Medicines* 
From all thefe Hiftories, it may not perhaps be wrong Tid. Ef 
to conclude, that the Hydrophobia^ (a. Name not verv-^p-^'^/^ 
proper for the Diftemper) is the Effed of a particular kina 
of an Inflammation in the Blood, accompany’d with fo 
great a Tenfion and Drynefs of the Nervous Membranes 
and fuch an Elafticity and Force of the Fluid with 
which they are filled, that the moft common Reprefen.^ 
rations are made to the Mind with too great Effed, and 
the ufual Impreflions of Objeds upon the Organs can-- 
not be fuffered ; Hence proceed the Timoroufnefs, unac- 
countable Anxiety and Inquietude, which are always 
the forerunners of the Dread of Liquids ^ as alfo did the 
Pain 
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