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was over, ordered his servant to hang* the dog, and he was killed 
immediately after: the only alternative then, was to have as 
early a dissection as possible. 
That dissection he permitted ?—We were obliged to do it by 
intimidation; by that means we obtained the dog, and he was 
dissected by Mr. Youatt: myself, Professor Pattison, Drs. Co- 
nolly and Thomson, being present. 
Were they all of opinion that the dog was in a rabid state at 
the time he was hung?—I can scarcely say that: in being 
positive, I would restrict myself to this, that we found such 
disease in the dog as was unquestionably sufficient to produce 
disease in any individual, though the dog was not apparently mad 
w hen hung’: the stomach w as in such a state of disease, irritation, 
and inflammation, that two or three days more would have been 
sufficient to have produced an ulcer in the stomach. 
Had the dog any such thing as straw or brick within him ?— 
A portion of hair, and something like the appearance of rag, 
with straw, and a large portion of bone (that is the natural 
food of a dog); but under such a state of the stomach, it would 
not become acted on by the gastric juice. 
Had he the same state of stomach as dogs generally have when 
in a rabid state?—Certainly; possessing all the appearance 
that the stomachs of dogs do that are killed in a rabid state. 
Were you present at the opening of the child ?—I was. It 
w as a case of too much interest to be absent. I w r as in doubt 
whether the child’s death arose from the inoculation of a specific 
poison, or from the circumstance of the bite. On the second day, 
I supposed there was something more than usual, because the 
child appeared slightly embarrassed in his breathing, without 
any sensible cause. 1 began to suspect there was something 
operating which I could not account for. On Saturday, the 
child was excessively depressed, not affected as persons usually 
are who are labouring under hydrophobia, which is a disease 
that usually produces an opposite effect. He w as then so much 
depressed, that 1 was obliged to order him wine, and other sti¬ 
mulants, which he did not swallow but by force, and he was 
seized wfith convulsions after every attempt. These convulsive 
fits afterwards occurred spontaneously, and the child died from 
the exhaustion produced by them. These fits were undoubtedly 
the effects of a poison communicated by a dog in a diseased 
condition. 
Were you and the other gentlemen quite convinced that the 
child died of hydrophobia ?—The peculiar convulsions, and the 
difficulty the child had in swallowing any fluid, so far confirmed 
us, that w e had not a doubt of it, especially when we came to 
