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Animals, which have bitten others whilft 
in a fit of anger, have fometimes com¬ 
municated madnefs. Hoffman relates 
fome obfervations of this nature. This 
great phyfician was perfuaded, that violent 
affections of the piind could create true 
poifons. 
We muft notwithftanding acknowledge, 
that fometimes a fimple wound of a nerve 
has excited terrible fymptoms, which have 
been fucceeded by death. Daily practice 
furnifhes us with inftances of this, parti¬ 
cularly in the tropical climates, where con- 
tufions, punCtured and lacerated wounds 
produce locked jaw and death. 
Hipprocates mentions a cafe of a Captain 
of a veffel, who being wounded by an an¬ 
chor, was feized with convulfions and 
opifthotonos, which terminated in death 
on the third day. But 1 am not acquainted 
with any cafe, in which hydrophobia has 
been in confequence of a wound or other 
injury inflicted on the nerves. 
I have 
