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Show d/Iu logical Consia'erations. Analogical Considerations. fiamrnation could be distinctly traced along the in a cow (of which the saliva appeared to in~ whole length of the oesophagus-the cardiac portion of the stomach was very highly disco~ loured, as werelikewise several distinct portions of the duodenum and ilium. The surface of the feet by inoculation an animal of a different 324- liv r spleen and pancreas, more particularly the last, appeared to have suffered in part, and the in» llammation which was evident was of a much darker flush than what appeared upon the fauccs and msophagus. The lungs ofthis dog, throughout the whole of their surface, were occupied with a beautiful vermillion blush, representing {tilt tissuwi' Aux-.. s highly oxygenated blood, but the surface ofthe trachea and bronchia, so far as I was capable of determining, exhibited nothing unusual. Thu head of the first and fourth dog was opened, but the brain did not appear to have suffered either in the one case or the other." Dr. Currie saw two dissections after hydro- phohia. In both there were slight appearances of congestion in the blood-vessels of the oeso- phagus and on the surface of the stomach, but such only, he thinks, as the convulsive motions night easily explain. We owe to this accom- plished observer the important information that of five cases of the disorder which fell under his cognizance, and which terminated fatally, " in none was there any increase of animal heat" (filed. reports I. '78 . In the (log almvementioned, on the contrary, as also :3: .«r, 725 class) the manner of breathing and the aspect. altogether indicated great heat. This must of course be uncertain, as no one touched either animal, but the conjecture was confirmed by the intense inflammation, which was discovered on dissection in both cases. Mr. R. Smith, surgeon in Bristol, informs me thathis father, well remembered as a minute anatomist, examined the body of a female, who died of rabid hydrophobia. The trachea, as is also stated to me by another respectable authority, and the uterus were inflamed. This woman was received into the intirmary Dec. 52, and died Dec. 5th, 1790. We have seen (p. 61) that in the distemper, Dr. Reich, found the uterus inflamed, when the beast was a cow in calf. ()f fevers and febrile diseases we know that they con'nnonly cause abortion as also the un- seasonable return and excessive flow of the menses. The French dissection (p. 103) shews the uterus inflamed when it was particularly cir'curnstanced at the onset of fever. A late hyw drophobic patient to whose case, by Mr. Bayn-a ton's permission, I shall presently advert, re< ported of herself that the catamenia (which occurred during her illness at their regular period) flowed in unusual - quantity. Mr. Smith's patient was 48, an age at Vl'rh it may be im |