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i applied with combuftible pabulum for many hun- 
dreds or thoufands of years ? 
LXVIII. An Account of an Hydrophobv, by 
Thomas Wilbraham, LL.D. F. R. S. 
Read April 9>/^\N Sunday March 29, 175:2, Ifaac 
J Cranfield, a waterman, about 30 
years of age, was received into the infirmary in Weft- 
minfter, with an hydrophobia upon him. He had 
been that morning with Mr. Heathfield, one of the 
furgeons to that infirmary, for advice ; who being 
inform’d of that remarkable fymptom, aik’d him, if 
lie had not been lately bitten by a dog ? He anfwer'd, 
no. But his wife, who was with him, put him in 
mind, that he had received a wound from a dog about 
nine months before. This he prefently recollected j 
and laid, it was a ft range dog he met with at a pub- 
lic-houle, that, as he was going to ftroak him, gave 
him a little bite in the hand. 
The fame day, about one o’ clock, Ur. Coxe, 
Dr. Watfon, and myfelf, who are join’d in the care 
of the above-mention’d infirmary, met together there 
to conlult upon his cafe. When he came to be ex- 
amin’d, he repeated to us the manner of his being 
bitten, as juft mentioned ; and faid "further, that he 
no l'ooner found himfelf hurt, but he gave the dog 
fuch a blow with a poker, as laid him dead upon the 
fpot. 
The wound, being flight, foon heal'd up, and he 
thought no more of it j and he enjoy’d good health 
till 
