From the constant agitation of his whole frame, and the startings of his arms, it was impossible to count his pulse with exactness; it was, however, very unequal, both in strength and frequency; at times scarcely perceptible, and then rising again under the finger; sometimes moderately slow and regular for a few pulsations, and immediately after so quick as not to be counted; but conveying, upon the whole, an idea of the greatly oppressed and impeded circulation. His skin was not hot, and though his head was in incessant motion, accompanied with such savage expression and contortion of countenance as might easily have alarmed those unaccustomed to such appearances; he made no attempt to bite, which is far from being a frequent symptom of the disease; and when it does occur, must be considered merely as an act of impatience at being held; and no more than the peculiar noise, above-noticed, as indicating any thing of the canine nature imparted by the bite-an opinion which has been sometimes fancifully, but absurdly, entertained. When questioned concerning his own feelings, or the cause of his illness, he was incapable of making any reply; being prevented, it is probable, either by the hurried state of his respiration, or by his mind being too deeply absorbed in the contempla tion of horrible ideas, to admit of his attending to the queries addressed to him. Dr Shoolbred, entertaining no doubt of the nature of his disease, which was further proved by his falling into agonies at the sight of water, tried copious bleeding, on the authority of a case given by Mr Tyman, of the 22d dragoons.After the loss of sixteen or twenty ounces of blood from the right arm, the spasms diminished; after the loss of two pints, he twice drank water with delight, about four ounces each time. During the bleeding he desired to be fanned, though air in motion is generally as much an object of terror as water to those patients. At the end of the bleeding, the pulse was 104. He then slept for an hour; awoke, and drank sherbet; slept again, and about five awoke, with appearances that indicated a partial relapse. Blood was drawn from the left arm until he fainted; the spasms gradually decaying during the bleeding, and the patient drinking four ounces of water. The pulse at the beginning of the second bleeding was 96, and at the end it was 88. No affection remained but headache. Dr Shoolbred here considers that hydrophobia had been completely overcome; but not thinking himself entitled to leave a man's life at hazard for the sake of an experiment, ordered the patient four grains of calomel and one grain of opium to be given every three hours. The first pill was given at a quarter before six, and immediately rejected; a second at five minutes before six, which remained. The patient then slept till seven; the pills were given regularly during the night; in the course of it he had three alvine evacuations, a circumstance unheard of in hydrophobia. He passed the night calmly. On Wednesday, the second day, his pulse was at 84. No buff coat was on the blood drawn the day before; the whole quantity was 40 ounces. At half past nine he ate 30 ounces of sago. He was then able to converse, and gave the subsequent account of his seizure : That nineteen days ago, (including this day) when returning about four in the evening, from his own house at Russapuglah, to his master at Chowringhee, he saw a pariah dog seize a fisherman and bite him. Several people were collected at the spot; he also approached, when the same dog ran at him, and as he was retreating before him, bit him in the back part of the right leg, about six inches above the ancle, where he shows two scars at the distance of an inch and a half from each other, but without any appearance of inflammation or thickening of the integuments. The dog, after biting him, disappeared, and he does not know what became of him or of the fisherman. The wounds bled a good deal, but not being very deep, they soon healed, without any application. He took no remedy, except on the day he was bitten, a small piece of scarlet cloth (sooltanee baat,) wrapt up in a piece of ripe plantain, which was recommended to him as an infallible antidote against infection from the bite of a mad dog. He never saw any one in hydrophobia; and though he had heard that persons bitten by a mad dog were liable to such a disease, the apprehension of it never dwelt on his mind or scarcely ever occurred to him after the day on which he was bitten. He continued in his usual health till the 4th instant, seventeen days after the bite, when he found himself dull, heavy, and listless, with loss of appetite, and frequent apprehension that dogs, cats, and jackalls were about to seize upon him. He also felt a pricking sensation in the part bitten. When his mother-in-law brought him his breakfast, he was afraid to eat it. He continued his business, however, of taking water from the tank to the house, till about noon of that day, after which he could not bear to look on, or to touch the water, being 'constantly harassed, whenever he attempted to do so, with the horrible appearance of different animals, ready to devour him. He now, for the first time, thought of the disease arising from the bite of a mad dog, was convinced that was the cause of his present distress, and fully believed he would die of it. He ate no supper, nor drank any water,that night, in consequence of the horrible phantoms that incessantly haunted his imagination. In the morning, all his horrors were increased, the spasms came on, accompanied by anxiety, oppression, and pain about the præcordia and stomach; and those about him say, that he continued to get worse in every respect, until he arrived at the hospital in the state already described. He does not himself dis tinctly remember any thing that happened during the whole day. He has some faint recollection of being at his own house, but how he get there—when he left it-or by what means he was brought to the hospi'tal, he does not at all know. The first thing he can recal to his mind is drinking the sherbet, and he says he has had his senses perfectly since that time, and that all his fears then left him, and have not since returned. This, however, is not en tirely correct, as he acknowledges that he does not recollect the second bleeding, which shows that the disease had then so far returned as again to disorder his mental faculties. During the day, he complained of severe headache, which was relieved by leeches at the temples. On Thursday, the third day, he was distressed by quantities of dark-green bile, which he passed up and downwards; pulse 110.-A pint of camomile infusion brought off much bile. At eleven, he took eight grains of calomel; and at half past twelve, half a dram each of jalap and magnesia; he was much relieved. On Friday morning he was farther relieved by senna, manna, and cream of tartar. On Saturday the excessive secretion of bile had ceased, and he became clamorous for food. For some evenings after, some heat of skin and acceleration of pulse were perceptible, but they went off by cold bathing and opening medicines. dict this fortunate and promising one, The case, which appears to contrais given by Mr Bellingen, assistantsurgeon of the 1st foot, and dated Trichinopoly, February 26th, 1813. On the 23d of that month, he was called on to examine the case of a Serjeant Clarke, aged 39, a tall, robust, and resolute man. The circumstances are thus described:→ In attempting to swallow his usual dram, previously to his going out yesterday morning, he felt a peculiar indescribable reluctance to the liquid, and could not prevail upon himself to take more than one half of it. Again, in attempting to wash his face, preparatory to evening parade, the approach of the water threw him into a violent state of agitation, and he was obliged to have it removed. Although now distressed with the utmost urgent thirst, he cannot be prevailed upon to attempt swallowing any fluid; the approach, and even the mention of it, producing violent spasms of the muscles of the neck and throat, which spasms are preceded by a peculiar uneasy sensation about the scre The surgeon, who was acquainted with the cases of Mr Tyman and Dr Shoolbred, immediately opened a large orifice in his arm, and took away about 40 ounces of blood. The patient complained of excessive languor during the operation, but he did not faint. The pulse was, after the bleeding, at 88. The near approach or agitation of any fluid still produced a recurrence of the spasms; but he could now bear to look upon water, if held at a distance; he shewed no reluctance at the light, or at viewing himself in a mirror; the pulse rose to upwards of 100; the turgidity of the eyeballs was diminished. The patient was now visited by some other medical men, and it was determined to try the effects of the bleeding without medicine. The blood was drawn at nine; at eleven he swallowed some water through a tube fixed to an elastic gum bottle; and expressed great delight in the sensations which it gave to his stomach, but was afraid to take any more; his pulse was at 84. During the next two hours, he had several attacks of the spasms, and one particularly violent on seeing a basin of sago which was offered to him. At two o'clock the pulse, which in the intervals of the spasms always sunk, was no more than 74; he had one alvine evacuation, and his skin was covered with a clammy sweat. At four, after seeing a recurrence of the spasms, and the horror with which he rejected liquids, bleeding was tried again; he struggled so much during the operation that the quantity could not be exactly ascertained, but it might be from 16 to 18 ounces. The pulse VOL. VI. PART II. at one time fell so low as to be scarcely discernible near the wrist, and towards the close he vomited a quantity of ropy phlegm, mixed with frothy saliva. He continued to struggle violently for some time, then fell quiet for a few minutes, and expired about a quarter before five o'clock. The disease had actually commenced the morning before, as he then felt the first horror of liquids; but he had gone through his duties as orderly serjeant of the company during that day, and though he felt the dislike of water painful in the evening, did not think of applying for assistance till the next day. The surgeon, therefore, considers that the blood-letting had not a timely trial. During the rapid progress of the disease, no source of infection occurred to the re collection of the patient; it was, however, immediately after his death, remembered by several of his comrades, and particularly by two of them, corporals Henry and Moore, of the same company, that a small dog (which was destroyed as mad about three weeks ago, and which had previously bit two other men of the regiment) was in the habit of licking a small sore on his inner ancle, which is hardly yet cicatrised. The animal was encouraged in this practice by the unfortunate man, under the impression of its being useful to the sore. The appearance on dissection, about four hours after death, did not differ materially from what has been observed in former cases; the posterior part of the fauces exhibited marks of inflammation, and the papillæ at the root of the tongue were uncommonly prominent; the esophagus was laid open through its whole extent, and in several places shewed slight marks of inflammation; these marks became more conspicuous towards its termination in the cardia; the inner surface of the stomach was in several places infla med, and in two or three small spots its inner coat abraded; nothing was contain ed in it but a small quantity of phlegm; the trachea was also laid open, and in the interstices of the cartilaginous rings exhibited a slight inflammatory redness; the h heart was quite sound, as were all the abdominal viscera, with the exception of the stomach. The blood taken from his arm exhibited no signs of the inflammatory crust, and what was last drawn appeared unusually dark coloured. On these cases the first observation that occurs is, the obvious effect of the blood-letting to diminish the symptoms in both. The admission of airthe endurance of the sight of water the pleasure felt in swallowing it the diminished swelling of the eye, and uneasiness of look, are all circumstances equally rare in the history of the disease, and apparently equally attributable to the copious emission of blood. But it was, perhaps, unfortunate that in the latter instance the experiment was made so nakedly. In Dr Shoolbred's statement, the calomel was tried within three hours after the opening of the vein, and its effect seems to have been produced in copious evacuations, for which the system was prepared and lowered by the loss of blood. The bleeding was only used on the first day, and it is obviously a remedy which must have speedy limits; but the returning uneasiness, the starting, the heat of skin, and the burning sensation in the region of the abdomen, all which look too like the former symptoms, not to make it probable that they belong to hydrophobia, appeared to have owed their removal to the calomel, and other evacuating medicines. The case of the serjeant was probably, also, the more unfavourable one; and a man who indulged his morning drams, and had a long standing ulcer, was more likely to suffer by this most violent of spasmodic diseases, than the abstemious and pure-blooded Indian. His disorder was almost too rapid for medicine; it killed him in a day. It would, we may hope, be more accessible in our milder climate, and the process eminently deserves the trial. At all events, 4th.-PARTICULARS OF MOREAU'S DEATH.-General Moreau died yesterday. He was in the act of giving some opinion on military matters, while passing with the Emperor of Russia behind a Prussian battery, to which two French batteries were answering, one in front and the other in flank, and Lord Cathcart and Sir R. Wilson were listening to him, when a ball struck his thigh and almost carried his leg off, passed through his horse, and shattered his other leg in pieces. He gave a deep groan at first, but immediately after the first agony of pain was over, he spoke with the utmost tranquillity, and called for a segar. They bore him off the field on a litter made of cossacks pikes, and carried him to a cottage at a short distance, which, however, was so much exposed to the fire, that they were obliged, after binding up his wounds, to move him further off to the Emperor's quarters, where one leg was amputated, he smoking the whole time. When the surgeon informed him that he must deprive him of his other, he observed, without shewing any pain or peevishness, but in the calmest manner, that had he known that before his other was cut off, he should have preferred dying. The litter on which they had hitherto conveyed him was covered with nothing but wet straw and a cloak, drenched through with rain, which continued in torrents the whole day. They now placed more cloaks over him, and laid him more comfortably on a good litter, in which he was carried to Dippolsdeswalde; but long before his arrival there he was soaked through and through. He was brought, however, safely to Laun, where he seemed to be going on well, till a long conference, which took place between him and three or four of the allied generals, by which he was completely exhausted. Soon after this he became extremely sick, and hourly grew worse. Through the whole of his sufferings he bore his fate with heroism and grandeur of mind not to be surpassed, and appeared to those with whom he conversed to endure but little pain, from his extreme composure and calmness. He died at six o'clock in the morning. The following bulletin was shown at St James's Palace : Windsor Castle, Sept. 4. "His Majesty has, for some months past, appeared generally tranquil and comfortable, although his disorder remains undiminished." The venerable oak, generally known by the name of Cybren yr-Ellyl, near Marmion, in Merioneth, fell lately under the weight of age. It appears from Pennant's Tour, that it must have been old even in the days of Owen Glendower, who hid, in this tree, the body of the Lancastrian Howel Sale, near 400 years ago. The arch of the new bridge erecting over the Dee, near Overton, at the joint expence of the counties of Denbigh and Flint, fell down a short time ago, when about two-thirds turned, and the trussed centre, which had been erected at a cost of 20001. was literally crushed to atoms. As the fall took place in the night fortunately no lives were lost. Bonaparte took exactly 12 years to rise to a height, from which 12 months have been sufficient to precipitate him. In 1799 he was installed first consul; in 1802, appointed consul for life; in 1804, emperor of France; and in 1812, with almost all Europe at his feet, he began that declension at Moscow, which, in 1813, was completed at Leipsic. 6th. REAPING MACHINE.-The great desideratum in agriculture, a reaping-machine for the purpose of abridging manual labour, is now, we apprehend, on the eve of being supplied. On Friday the trial of a machine of this description, invented and constructed by Mr Smith, from Perthshire, the same ingenious gentleman who exhibited a similar machine last year, was made, in presence of the Dalkeith Farming Society, and a number of strangers, on a field of oats belonging to the Duke of Buccleuch "The general effect of the machine," it has been remarked, "as appeared in its performance of cutting down the corn as completely, and laying it as regu larly, as it is usually done by a manual operation with the sickle, shewed that the inventor has caught the right principle and has succeeded perfectly in its application.-Even in its present state, the machine approaches to a degree of perfection, which will soon introduce it to use, and make it be considered as one of the most valuable discoveries, and one of the greatest public benefits, of modern times. The machine of last year was drawn by one horse; the machine exhibited on Friday was drawn by two horses, and went with great steadiness. On comparing what was done by the machine, more than half an acre, with another field in the neighbourhood, cut down with the sickle, the stubble left by the former was uniformerly shorter; and it was, I believe, admitted by all present, that the corn was laid more regularly by the operation of the machine than it is usually done with the hand." Whether the ingenious inventor shall be found entitled to a large reward offered by this Farming Society, we know not; but we are persuaded the spirit which proposed so handsome a premium will not be slow in acknowledging Mr Smith's merit and exertions by some mark of its approbation. 7th.-A sheriff's officer, under an |