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probable from these reafons also. 1. Because the Dog Bit him, whose Spittlealone to be Vtmmus to thc Touch, there are many credible Instances inMedical Htfiory. 2. He was almost like a Dog in the Mouth, viz,, whereare the proper Organs of the Saliva. 3. The Bi:t of a Man so Bitten is a-like Infellious ; but otherwife Innocent.

But it may be askt how comes it to Infeci his Spittle , and not other Ha-mows and the Blood. I answer, the Blood in part was undoubtedly Affkcted,as the Symptoms arising before th e A sta pavor (which yet is the only truePathognomick of the- Dtseaft) demonstrate. Again the Blood is not OneLiquor (as is generally thought) but many Distinct Liquors circulatedtogether in one Set ofcommon VefTels; and so it might Infeci that Liquor,which it was most a-kin to, as the Saliva of a D«g to the Saliva of a Man.

XXXVI. On Wednejday at Evening, OB. 1. 1684. I was call’d to a Pati-ent at Norwich , who about 6 Weeks before had been Bitten with a Mad Foxon the Right Hand ; he began to be indisposed the Saturday before with run-mng Tains , yet lo well as to be abroad next day at Church : on Monday hisPains grew more troublesome, and the das following, much worse, tspecial-ly, on his Right Hand, Arm, Shoulder and Back, but not to confinement:OnWeämsday (I know not by whose advicej he took a Dose of the com-mon Purging Spirit of Scurvy-grafs, which gave hitn 7 or 8 Stools, and■made him very faint, and weak; so I found him; and complaining that hecould not use his Right Hand (it Beginning to be ParalyticallJ tho’ his Famswere much abated there, and where eise they had been most troublesome,excepting only on the lower Parts, or small of his Back, where they soon as-ter vanistied also. He told me he Bled freely at the Wounhs the Fox had made,and that they Healed without any farther trouble, than now and then a littleGirding Fain on that Hand and Arm; and further seid, (topleasc his FriendsJhe had taken a white Powder of an Apothecary, and believed himfelf inno Dangtr ofwhatwas feared (for Ihad diseovered the Danger I apprehend-ed in his Condition). Tho’ the Aqua Favor did not yet uppear, his Heatwas much encreased and his Pulse mtermitted every 5 th or 6 ‘b Stroak, but onthc Right fide only ; which I again and again examin’d, finding no Variation ;he also looked Gastly and Thin, but his Eyes fparkling and Fiery. 1 pre-sorib’d the best Temperate dntifpajmodic and Antiparalytic Remedies I knew,to be mixt with the Specificks of common use in an Hydrophobia ; thus muchon Wednefday at Night. Next Morning he complained his Night had beenRefilefs , that then he had wholly lost the Vfe of his Right Hand, and tho’ theFains were more abated, yet he was very Hot and uneasie: his Pulse thenwas much stronger than over Night, but intermitted on the Right fide only asbefore, _his Countenance was somewhat more Gastly, yet his Veins very füllas in Initio & Augmento Febris, and no Hydrophobia appcaring, I advisedhim to Bleed 6 or 7 Ounccs at the Lest Arm, (the Right heing Paralytical ,)and the continuance of wnat 1 had prescrib’d before ; he Bled 8 Ounces ve-ry freely, the Blood well coloured but very thick. Aster I lest him, the greatSytnpome appeared, and in my Absence, another was confulted who gave