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XXL An Account of the Cafe of a fuppofed 
Hydrophobia : In a Letter to the Rev, 
Thomas Birch, D, D, Secretary to the 
R(yal Society^ from the Right Honourable 
James Rarl of Morton, Prefdent of the 
Royal Society, 
Brook-Street, Wednefday, April 24, 1765; 
Rev. Sir ; 
H AV I N G read a remarkable account in the 
Public Advertifer of the 2 2d of June, 1764, 
that a perfon, who, ih confequence of the bite of a 
mad dog, was affedted with the Hydrophobia, had been 
cured at Padua by draughts of vinegar, I was willing 
to get the bed; information of the true ftate of the 
fadl. Accordingly I wrote to my acquaintance Ge- 
neral Gramme, commander in chief of the Venetian 
forces, defiring he would fend me an accurate hiftory 
of this extraordinary cure ; and fome time ago f 
received from him the inclofed account \ which, if 
you think proper, you may read before the Society. 
The account in the Public Advertifer, being fo very 
particular and circumdantial, induced me at firfl to 
T 2 believe 
