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believe it might be well founded ; in which cafe, fo 
valuable a difcovery ought to have been publilhed 
every where : but, as it turns out to be altogether a 
fallacy, the public ought equally to be undeceived. 
I am, 
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Rev. Sir, 
Your v^ry humble fervant, 
Morton. 
Venice, December 8, 1764. 
Read April 25, | ^ H E hiftory of the Hydrophobia 
1765. cured by vinegar is equivocal, or 
perhaps altogether a miftakej and the procefs was 
what follows. 
Dr. Bertolh, phylician, and now profelTor in the 
univerfity of Padua, came to Venice in the laft 
fpring, and brought an account to Dr. Reghellini, 
that three hydrophobous perfons, all bit by the fame 
mad dog, had been treated in the hofpital at Padua, 
two of whom died, and only one efcaped, and that 
the perfon, who furvived, was cured by Dr. Leonilfi 
with vinegar, which he was made to iwallow every 
three hours in dofes of about four ounces at a time. 
This cure, performed by Dr. Leonifia, was fuggefted 
to him by a dudent of phylic at Udine, who oblerved, 
in the Friuli, a hydrophobous perfon, who was cured 
by 
