643 
For the fake of our Englith aftrono- 
mers, we fhall fubjoin the following 
extract, containing the calculation of 
Dr. Olbers : ; 
Jan. 25 1rh. sgm. mean time. 
Right Afcenfion — - 135° of 
Northern Declination - TIT G 
Jan..5, 17h. 30m. mean time. 
Right Afcenfion - 135° 45! 
Northern Declination - CARN fe 
The calculation of the 6th has been 
omitted. 
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guage at the National College of 
France; Phyfician to the Bene Hof-. 
pital of Paris, &c. 
The aim of this Iittle stose is to 
eftablifh the pofition, that the Hydro- 
phobia cannot be communicated to 
Mankind ; by a recurrence to the hif- 
tory of that dreadful malady. 
Hippocrates makes no mention of it 
whatfoever; Ariftotle, who alludes to 
it in his Hiftory of Animals, 1. 8, |. 22, 
obferves, that this madnefs is a {pecies 
ot frenzy particular to the dog, which 
he communicates by biting to all ani- 
mals, man only excepted. Nicomedes, 
who wrote a poem onthe animals, the 
bite of which 1s fuppofed to be vene- 
mous, is not found to fay any thing of 
this difeafe, and it does net appear 
to have attacked man, until a little 
time before Afclepiades, a celebrated 
phyfician, contemporary with Pompey. 
Plutarch mentions it in ‘his Sympo- 
fiacs, as a malady not then ancient in 
point of date. 
This hiftorical recital is nota little 
ferviceable to the opinion of Dr. Bof- 
guilion. «* Canine madnefs,”’ fays he, 
«being known in the earlieft times, 
and it b eing certain that it did not then 
communicate its influence to mankind, 
it would appear to refult from this, that 
fome change muit have taken place i in 
the human frame, foas to render it fuf- 
ceptibie of the malady in queftion, and 
T leave it to the phyfiologifts to examine 
whether this be poffible.”” 
7. 
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In fhort, 1t is the opinion of this au 
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of mania, and the produtt of a terrified 
imagination alone. — 
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mal food muft be recurred to.” The 
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