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by means of a mlftake, that happened in the family, 
by giving him vinegar to drink inftead of water j[^]. 
Dr. Reghellini, willing to be thoroughly fatisiied, 
whether this acceptable difcovery was flridtly true, 
did immediately write to a friend of his, a phyfician 
at Padua, ftating all the circumdances, which had 
been related to him by Dr. Bertoffi, and defiring to 
know, if the fa(5t really was as it had been dated. His 
friend, the phyfician, gave him for anfwer, that the 
thing was true. 
Dr. Reghellini thereupon communicated the cafe 
to the phyficians of the hofpital of Florence and 
Pifa, and defired them to make trial of it, the fird 
opportunity that diould offer, and acquaint him with 
the fuccefs. He likewife communicated it to his 
other friends, amongd v>^hich was Dr. Turton, an 
Englifli phyfician then at Venice; and to Dr. de la 
Fontaine, a phyfician, who attended Lord Spencer \_h']. 
Dr. Reghellini judged, that fo uncommon an event 
ought to be publidied with all its circumdances 
and having in his poffefiion the hidory of eight and 
twenty hydrophobous perfons, though in. different 
manners, and treated by different phyficians, fifteen 
of whom were afterwards opened, and the bodies 
carefully examined, he thought from, thence he. 
might compofe a rational and ufeful tra(ff. Therefore 
he went to Padua, to have a perfonal interview with. 
Count Leonifia, the phyfician; but in this con- 
ference he difcovered, that the man, who was faid to 
[a] Dr. Bertoffi (aid in the Friuli. Count LeonifTa fays in 
Lombardy. Perhaps fome other perfon may have faid in Turin. 
[b\ Probably the account publifhed in England may have 
come from one of thefe two gentlemen. 
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