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did excite vcry strong Irritations in the Members of the Body by Convel-ling of their Mustcular Fibres. Ntiiher was the Bratn and its parts freedfrom the samc Morbid Tainr, which manihsted itsFerocity inamost strängeancThnusual Distortion of the Eyes, from a confused and irregulär Expansionof the Optick Nerve, atrcnded with an extraordinary fiercenefs in the wholeVisage, continual Vigilies, and a constant Trepidation, wich a reiceratedfnatching up of the lower Mandible, making Signs as if he would have Bitac any thing that was offered him. His Votce was uttered with a CanineHoarJ'enefs , and had an extraordinary reicinblance to the Barking of a Dog.He was moreover infestcd from that time with a Singultus , and Foaming atthe Mouth . He wasnosooner sensible of the Reflexion of a Looking-glafs,which out of Curioüty 1 presented beforc him, than he Threrv his Headbachvards with great Violence, and continued Barking , and Snapping at e-very thing near him: In the Evening, notwithstanding stich Alexipharmicksas had been exhibitcd, he tunk under the Opprellion of eheste cruel Sym-ptoms* I was not permitted to open him: But the Abdomen, I pereeived,was exceslively Inflated, his Limbs Convulfed, and the Superfice of the Bodyof a Livid Colour ; the Museles of the Face weredrawn into such a formas did nearly represent a Spasmus Cynicus .

sreiand^Bich„ XXXVIII. About ehe last of Obs. 1679. it happened that 2 Boys of 10

Mad n’o«; fc) and 9 Years Old, of a Sanguine and Cholerick Complexion, did TauchKeneda,^ anc ] Handle the Head of a Dog which had been ivounded by a Mad Dog,

n! p. 308. but by the Handhng and IVafhing of his Womd by the Children, the Dogso wounded was heal’d, and did not become Mad. But about May 1680.the Children became umvell, and were steiied with a Paining Grus towardsthe bottom of their Bellies , which did Grind and Torment them with Pdmand Troublc, which Ascended gradually upwards towards their Navil,And about the ist. of Jidy, together with the forestaid Grief, they were ta-ken with a stow Flux, and with Fainting Fits by times, when the foresäidPains aflaulted them. After they had continued thus for a time, their Rainand Grief Astcendcd towards and above the Stomach , whereupon followedvcry violent and Convulßve like Motions in their Bodies, elpecially aboutthe Stomach and Billy, by which they were tofled and tumbled and disturb-cd in the whole Body, with some Foaming at the Mcuth, in the interim oftheir Fits\ now and then theste Symptoms continued and increased until thelatter end of August, that they were taken with the Fear of Water, andcould not endure to look into any Liquid thing, until the Cup was covered,but forthwith would have fallen down as Dead, and so would have lain alittle time as in a Sounding or dead Fit ; and then would have tumbled andtoss’d in the fortstaid violent Motions and Distractionsof their Bodies, Moan -ing and Groaning ; and ordinarily, the Eldest estpecially, Snarled, Barked,and indeavoureri to Bite like a Dog, they continued in this Fit for an Hourstometimes, and stometimes lesi, and so came out of the Convulßve-like Mo-tions, lying as it had been in a Sound, a little before they came out of theFits } and when they did come out of the Fits, would have cropen away in