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DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA 
Y&th . — Much better — lameness almost subdued — medicine ope- 
ratirf£ well. Continue the fomentations of hot brine. 
19th . — Lameness quite gone — the faeces almost of a regular 
consistence. Discontinue the brine, to which I attribute so early 
a cure. 
THE USUAL COURSE OF RHEUMATISM IN THE 
HORSE. 
M. Tessin remarks that M. Bouley, one of the most ex- 
perienced veterinary surgeons in Paris, assures him that the 
ordinary course of rheumatic inflammation in the horse is the very 
reverse of what is usually the case in the human subject. In the 
latter, as all know, the affection of the joints is primary, and that 
of the pleura, pericardium, or other internal part, is consecutive, or 
secondary ; whereas, in the former, pleuritis is generally the 
primary, and the arthritis the secondary affection. 
DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA. 
Between four and five o’clock on Monday, Jan. 22, 1844, a 
lad named Enos Hayward, seventeen years of age, a stable-boy in 
the service of Mr. Warwinch, Carshalton, Surrey, was admitted 
into St. Thomas’s Hospital, suffering under hydrophobia. He was 
brought to the above institution from Carshalton in a fly, and 
while being assisted to alight he was seized with a paroxysm of 
the disease, barking loudly like a dog, and attempting to bite the 
persons near him. So violent were his struggles, that it required 
the exertions of four strong men to carry him into George’s 
ward, and he was obliged to be held down in bed by main force. 
During the intervals of the succession of attacks with which he 
was assailed, he was perfectly rational, and frequently remarked 
that the attendants need not be afraid, as he would not hurt any of 
them. He also said that he had no doubt he should be better by the 
morrow, and seemed to be totally unconscious of the fatal nature of 
the malady with which he was afflicted. Every possible attention 
was paid to him, but he expired about eleven o’clock on the same 
night. 
He had been bitten about six weeks ago by a dog that had 
strayed into the stable-yard. The wound was very slight, and, 
