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XIII. A Letter from John Starr M. D. to 
John Huxham M.D. F. R. S. containing 
an Account of an Horfe bit by a mad Dog. 
Dear Sir , 
Liskard , Jan. io. 174.9. 
Read June 21, | JENEATH you have the Account you 
I/5 °’ JD requefted: If it contains any thing 
worthy your Perufal, I fhall be pleafed. Nothing de- 
ferving Notice is, I think, omitted : Every Circum- 
ftance is truly, and it may be too particularly related. 
Dec. 1 , i74f. a Neighbour's large MaftifFDog, 
mad, broke out in the Night from the Place where 
he was too carelefly confin'd ; and, by a rotten back 
Window, enter’d my Stable, feli upon my Horfe, 
and bit him in many Places, as Shoulder, Bread, 
and right Noflril ; which was indeed much torn. 
He bled largely. The Town being early in the 
Morning alarmed by this mad Dog, and my Horfe 
being found loofe, his Collar broke to Pieces, 
wounded in many Places, and much Blood fcatter’d 
up and down the Stable, it was too juftly concluded 
the Dog had fallen upon him. 
According to Default’s Method, and what Dr. 
y ames fays, in a Letter I had from him on another 
Occafion, will efFe&ually prevent the ill Confe- 
quenccsof this Bite s 1 immediately order’d theYVounds 
to be well rubb'd with a mercurial Ointment, ex 
Axung. fore. 3 vj. Argent, viv. 'Sij. About 5{/- 
were at times expended. 
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