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Show 1'33 Analogical Considerations. Analogical Considerations. I am just favoured, through the good offices of Dr. Marcet, with the following observations by Mr. Wilson, assistant apothecary to Guy's hospital and a very zealous anatomist. Mr. Wilson's views do not altogether agree with the conclusion, which I had drawn from whatI have seen and read. Nevertheless every one, who feels at once the importance and the imperfection of morbid anatomy in general and of this part of it in particular, must rejoice in new opportunities of comparing well observed facts with those which he had acquired before. "It would seem that hydrophobia in the canine species is determinable after death by certain appearances which present themselves upon dissection; and which may be denominated characteristic ofthe complaint, in as much as they afford us pretty clear evidence whether the disease existed or not. In those dogs which I have inspected myself, or have been favoured with a view of the parts, after they had been removed, by some of my friends, these peculiar appearances have always been present whenever there existed little or no doubt but that the animal had been really mad. :I‘ The number ofdogs that I haves en opened: sar' to rave been mad amounts \ 'r "<3 of which I have inspected myself. tr) "(4' "1" "After dissecting out entire the parts con» F23 stomach, am after ope lint: the pharynx and a (Esophagus, there are seen certain ignlammatory blotehes, distinct. and circumscribed, situated about the tam-es, glnz‘tis, saeculus laryngeus, and upon the surface of the Q‘szrphagusm-in some instances the surface of the abdominal viscera appears to be affected. " In the first three dog's which were examined these iniinrmnamry blotcnes were more or less, extensive, but they were Confined to the fauces and oesophagus. the appearances in the fourth (10;: were en livoeal and ixisuiiicient to give any determinate opinion upon the nature of the case-he had been destruy.,d immediately upon suspicion of his being mad, but had previously bitten his master and another person in the house. The three first had likewise all been destroyed before the termination of the complaint-The last dog was sent to Guy's hospital by Mr. Howard to Dr. Mircart, in order to ascertain the morbid appearances. The dog after showing signs of madness, had been care- fully confined and suffered to die-he had been bitten two months before. " Appearances upon dissection-The extremity of the tongue was much bitten, and tlure was a copious quantity of saliva about the fauces- there were some highly inflamed spots towards the basis of the tongue-«the tonsils appeared cerned in deglutitiou, from the tongue to thC swoln and turgid with blood-blotches of in- stomach, flamination lam 'Mos'sr ll |