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HYDROPHOBIA. 
as were several of the lymphatic glands of the neck. The lining 
membrane of the pharynx highly vascular, the vascularity extend- 
ing into the trachea; lungs healthy, but gorged with blood; the 
sympathetic, eighth pair, and phrenic nerves, did not exhibit any 
appearance of disease ; we thought them rather smaller than might 
have been expected in a stout man. (Esophagus healthy; nothing 
particular in the stomach excepting a few very red spots beneath 
the mucous membrane. Intestines healthy, with the exception of 
the jejunum, a small portion of which was highly vascular. The 
back of the hand in the vicinity of the bite was carefully dissected, 
when several twigs, apparently branches of the superficialis nerve, 
were seen close to the cicatrices, but they did not appear to be 
diseased. 
Hydrophobia following the Bite of a Dog. 
On Wednesday, the 13th June, about four o’clock in the after- 
noon, another case of hydrophobia was brought into the same 
hospital. 
The patient, a fine boy about four years of age, had been bitten 
in the face by a dog about seven weeks since. A medical man 
who saw the child soon after it was bitten recommended the ex- 
cision of the part, but this the parents of the child would not allow. 
The symptoms began to present themselves a few days previous to 
his admission, by drowsiness and general disinclination to move. 
About twenty-four hours previous to his being brought here, de- 
cided symptoms of hydrophobia presented themselves. 
The treatment adopted in this case consisted in applying six 
leeches to the throat, which appeared to afford decided relief for a 
time, and grain doses of the superacetate of lead every half hour, 
until eighteen grains had been given, when violent colicky pains 
came on : the lead was accordingly discontinued, and clysters, con- 
taining forty drops of laudanum with castor oil, were ordered, two 
of which were administered, and which appeared to afford some 
transient relief. The little sufferer lingered on till about four 
o’clock the following afternoon, when death put a period to his 
sufferings. We believe no post-mortem examination was made in 
this case, owing to the parents refusing their consent. 
