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Show ‘r 14. Analogical Considerations. Analogical Considerations. 1 15 shall be supported by the result of future disco- change of structure induced by this most ter~ veries. rible of acute diseases. Dr. Ploucquet openly makes it a. pos tulate that the brain, in the great majority of cases, may be inflamed, as it were, by proxy. If the same neither is, nor is to be, a postulate on the part of Dr. Clutterbuck,is itfrom his asuming fatal inflammation of the head in the very cases, where gangrene of other vital organs stares the anatomist in the face P-This calm and well« informed speculatist has, no doubt, explana- tions in reserve for his future volume: and with these, I hope, he will duly favour us. Meanwhile I shall put the opinion to the test of certain appearances in the history of hydro- phobia; in hopes that whatever may be thought of my application of these facts, the facts themselves will be thought not undeserving of notice. By luya'rop/zobia I mean the disease which experience proves to be produced by the bite ofa rabidanimal or by inoculation with its saliva. The term is unfortunate enough, since the symptom occurs in other diseases of the human subject; since observers worthy of credit have seen a rabid wolf swim across a river; and I have my" self observed a dog, of which the history, symp" toms, death and dissection shewed him to be similarly affected, lap milk freely and perhal'S swallow some of this liquid. been started afresh and controverted in this country. Iplace my reliance upon examina> tions made by competent persons with a View to this question, or by the very ablest among modern anatomists. instigated by a desire of compleatly ascertaining the elfécts produced by the complaint. A medical society in London collected (K many cases and other valuable information" (Transactions 1793, Johnson I. 294). In their / report it is stated (p. 310) that "many dissections of the bodies of those who have died of hydrophobia, have been communicated to them. An appearance has in general been seen on the inner coats of the stomach near the cardia, similar to what is found in the bodies of persons who have hadslight inflammation, that is, a greater number of red vessels with small streaks of red blood. In some instances there has been an increased vascularity of the pia mater, or slight watery effusion on the surface It has been a great object to ascertain the change The curiosity of‘ 0b» servers, overcoming the just dread of inoculation, at length promises to put us in possession ofdissections as full and as accurate as we have of the victims of any other disease. Boerhaave had characterized the complaint as most highly inflammatory; and the opinion has lately of the brain. ' In some dogs that died of the I 2 disease.~ ~ \ ‘m Maser |