Excerpt from A Case of Hydrophobia, Commonly Called Canine Madness, From the Bite of a Mad Dog, Successfully Treated As an exact history of a particular case of a disease, hitherto imperfectly known as an instance of the success ful treatment of a disease which has so rarely been cured, as to be gene rally esteemed incurable; the Case of Hydrophobia, which I now lay be fore the Public, cannot fail to be in teresting. It may perhaps appear nu necessarily minute; but I wished to give a true picture of the w'hole dis-r order, and was afraid that, in attempt ing to reduce it into a Smaller com pass, I might strike out something essential to the production of a per fect likeness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.