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was bandaged, in order to preserve it from contact with the air; 
and neither on that day nor the following did he experience 
any inconvenience, and he began to think that all danger was 
• 
.—He returned to his employment in the clinical school, 
with the management of which he was then charged. The 
ground was covered with ice, and Couderq going carelessly along, 
fell heavily. This caused some merriment among his class-fel¬ 
lows, which so exasperated him, that, not being in any other way 
able to avenge himself, he used some very angry and improper 
language. This only increased their mirth, and he retired. 
Some hours afterwards he betook himself to his bed, complain¬ 
ing of a ^dreadful headach. On the morrow he said that he 
was very ill: this drew from some of his companions expressions 
of surprise and ridicule. They looked at his stature and his 
strength, and they could not comprehend how a simple fall 
should so completely knock him up. He felt no inconvenience 
from the wound, and he and his companions had ceased to think 
of it. 
On the I5th he betook himself to the infirmary of the school, 
where I also was confined by severe catarrh. He went to bed, 
and waited for the physician, who did not visit him until the 
evening. Couderq used to be a great eater, but now the pain 
in his head deprived him of all his appetite. I will not speak of 
the care that was taken of him, which was very great, nor of the 
means that were resorted to; my present purpose is the possi¬ 
bility of the farcy of the horse being communicated to the human 
being. During the first days of his residence in the infirmary, 
however, no one dreamed of the inoculation of farcy: the object 
of the physician was to relieve the dreadful pain in his head, 
and he was immediately bled, and baths and sinapisms were ap¬ 
plied to the feet. I undertook to be his nurse, and by the ad¬ 
vice of the doctor applied a certain number of leeches to the 
inside of his thighs, and placed cloths wet with an anodyne de¬ 
coction on his forehead and his temples, but with no good effect. 
The least noise startled him ; the light became insupportable ; his 
countenance assumed a mingled expression of melancholy and 
suffering, occasionally becoming dark and ferocious. His thumb 
had now become inflamed, and there was considerable suppura¬ 
tion from the wound. 
Fever, which left him but few moments of respite, attacked 
him on the 18th, and continued until the 2ikl, when he sunk 
into a complete state of apathy, and was perfectly obedient to 
command. 
In the night of the 23d and 24th he became delirious, and 
talked continually of his farcied horse and its disease, wliich he 
passed 
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