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drank, such a fluid as before had occasioned most revolting distress.

My. Srarxey, Surgeon, at Limehouse, was called to this person, upon the accession of See ee not before.

The detail of this case, which terminated fatally, will, more properly than on the present occasion, be doubtless, the subject of a paper to this Society.*

® The history of this interesting case has since been transmitted, by Mr. Sraxxey, to Mr. Cooxs, of Trinity-square, Honorary Secretary to the Hunterian Society.

The following brief narrative may not be considered foreign to the above remarks on the subject of Hydrophobia. A man, admitted into the London Hospital, on occasion of an accident, was seized with trismus, and other sigas of approaching general tetanus. A tobacco injection removed all the symptoms. The ordinary effects of the clyster were so powerfully felt by him, and thence his dread of a repetition of them such, that, on another injection being proposed, with the view of confirming the benefits obtained, he left the Hospital; and went to Mr. Rurwgxroorn, of Ratcliff-Highway, Surgeon: whose report of this man is, that he has not experienced any de- gree of return of spasmodic complaint. Thus the one clyster appears to have effected his cure: a second, unless of much reduced strength, would, probably, have been fatal. �