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There were no steps taken to cauterize the wound again ?— 
No; Mr. Frankum, finding that the symptoms had already dis¬ 
played themselves, considered it unnecessary, either to excise 
the wounded part, or to recauterize it; it being a principle with 
medical men that it is of no use to do any thing of that kind 
after the poison has begun to act upon the system, or has begun 
to work. ^ 
How long did the child linger before he died?—Three days; 
he died upon the fourth day after that upon which he had been 
bitten: the symptoms in his case displayed themselves unusually 
early, and ran an unusually rapid course. 
It was the opinion of Dr. Conolly, yourself, and Mr. Frankum, 
that the child died unquestionably of hydrophobia?—Yes; 
they sent for me to examine the body of the child ; and from the 
circumstances related to me, compared with the morbid appear¬ 
ances, which I found (and which may be seen preserved in the 
Museum of the London University), I have no hesitation in 
answering the question in the affirmative: they have expressed 
a similar conviction. 
There was no doubt whatever as to the dog being affected 
with disease?—No; such was the conviction also arrived at by 
the jury at the coroner's inquest, which was held in consequence 
of the clog not having displayed any symptoms of hydrophobia ; 
or, as the disease is called in the dog, of rabies, unless indeed 
this viciousness could be considered in such a light: the dog re¬ 
mained equally kind to his master, and, if any thing, had of late 
taken his food with more than ordinary alacrity. The coroner 
particularly and solemnly urged that the dog might be preserved, 
in order that we might see how far the symptoms of hydropho¬ 
bia would develope themselves. The master, however, who had 
behaved ill throughout the whole of the transaction, having not 
only refused to confine the dog, but to permit of a physician 
being called in to the patient, neglected with equal recklessness 
the injunction of the coroner, and hung the animal next day. 
An examination of the body of the dog took place immediately 
afterwards, in the presence of Dr. Conolly, Professor Pattison, 
Mr. Frankum, and myself, under the superintendence of Mr. 
Youatt: every part of the dog, except the spine, was examined 
very minutely and anxiously, in order that no doubt might re¬ 
main of the true nature of the case. In the child, I had ex¬ 
amined even the spine. 
Mr. Youatt pronounced that the dog was absolutely rabid ?—• 
No; but he expressed his conviction, m which he was joined by 
all present, who had witnessed the bodies of dogs who had died 
of rabies examined, that the morbid appearances were such, as 
