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Richard Frankum, Esq., called in, and examined. 
You are a surgeon ?—Yes. 
Where do you reside?—In'Grove-place, Lisson-grove. 
Have you had a case of hydrophobia under your care re¬ 
cently ?—Very recently. 
How long since ?—Within a fortnight or three weeks. 
State what the case was?—We had no reason at first to sup¬ 
pose that it would have been hydrophobia, the dog not present¬ 
ing at all the appearance of disease. The child was bitten by a 
dog that appeared to be as well as any dog could be. The party 
whom I applied to to see the dog almost refused, stating it was 
quite impossible there could be any danger in the dog\ 
Was he allowed to be at large ?—I should say at large, as 
there w as no restriction. He could run out of the premises as 
he had done before: I believe the owner kept him for the purpose 
of intimidating the children and persons in the neighbourhood 
from coming near the premises. 
Did you attend the child immediately after it was bitten?— 
I did not see the child the evening it was bitten; if I had seen 
it, I think I should have been able to have prevented the un¬ 
fortunate circumstance that afterwards ensued. I saw it on the 
following morning. 
What was done?—Some person w as called in the same evening 
the child was bitten, and applied lunar caustic to the wound. 
They did not excise it?—No: when I went in the morning, 
and saw the dog in such an apparently healthy condition, know¬ 
ing that the operation w ould be a severe one, I hesitated whether 
I should or not excise the part, hoping there might be no chance 
of the disease. I allowed it to go on, as I expected it would, 
very favourably; but in a few days it proved otherw ise. 
Did the symptoms of hydrophobia appear very soon?—Not 
until three days after, which I consider exceedingly early. 
\\ hat time did the child die?—As the bite took place on 
Wednesday evening, the child died on the Saturday evening 
following*. 
The disease, induct, appeared on the fourth day?—Yes; and 
the child died in a very few hours. 
You are quite positive, from your own opinion, as well as that 
ol others who saw the child, that it died of hydrophobia?—There 
does not now remain a doubt upon that circumstance; none 
whatever. I w as exceedingly desirous, when the inquest on the 
child took place, that the dog should be saved at least three 
weeks. 1 he jury and the coroner very properly coincided in 
that opinion ; but the owner ol the dog, who manifested a great 
deal ot unkindly feeling on the occasion, the instant the inquest 
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