The National Register.
London, England, 1819-08-16 00:00:00

C4.5E.S Ut. 11EDROPIJOHLA.

On the 3tl of April a matt bron4lit a dog to the house
of a person in the town of Carrickfergus, and requested
to have him tied up !or a tVw hours bil he would be
leaving the town ; adding that he W3V a strange dos' that
had followed him. This retitled was complied with, and
the dog was tied up in a shed, where he eat some bread
greedily, but soon after bro:se loose, and entering the
house, c..taghi a woma❑ by the arm a fink above tic
wrist, which he emititatiel '6'l hold fast with his teeth,
till her son struck him several times with a stick ; after
which he eveaped from the house, and wok the roach
towards I slandinaExe.
At the village of Eden, about one mile from Carrick.
terms, he bit a boy about seventeen years of age above
the riOt eve-brow ; and at }idiom, a girl of the same
age, also above the tight eyebrow. The wounds of the
children bled much, be.lig dreadfully lacerated—the
dealt of the boy's temple was literally bitten away ; about
an hour afterwards the haggled parts were cut away by a
medical geolleatimi, at least as touch as could be done
without great danger to the eyes, and proper dressings
were applied. The arm of the woman was also dressed
the same errening, its a similar manlier, but she refused
to let any flesh by cut away ; :he, however, consented on
tde following day.

The wounds of all were dresses, daily, and purged
much matter, but on the morning uf. . the 18th, the girl
became subject to vomiting ; there was much bilious
matter, anti her CtltllllCll.ll'Ce presented a melancholy
wildness. Site became alarmed at the least noise, or the
light of a ur when approached suddenly, and
complained of her throat, which was
nevertheless, on the nurrmint of the day she died, when
a gentleman gave her sixpence as a reward, :•he drank
near a pint of water without much difficulty or dread.—
On the day she was iti reeled she was bled. also afterwards
—the blood, was eery florid, and throughout the disorder
ner pulse varied from 8u to 158. She was unusually
calm, and talked of her death as certain, with great
firmness—.she died on the morning of the 21st.

Oa the evening of the Tbt It, the boy became affected
suddenly, on seeing a dog pass by on the road ; he also
vomited, and complained as the foriner, was at times
calm, minded his usual sports, at others, especially
latterly, outrageous, cursing, and the like, and crying
that cats and dogs were et gto bite I * ;he was
also bled, and the blood unusually florid; he died our
the morning of the 30th ; had been very outrageous on
the preceding night.
The arm of the woman healed up about the I eth of
Mae, but was still rather inflanietl.; from the first she
had taken mercury freely. On the n:glit of the 16th
she rested little, from a pain that went from her thumb
up to the shoulder—on the 18th it was evident that she
was affected, and her countenance was overcast by a
gloomy wildness ; she talked sensible, and in a most
feeling manner respecting her children. She was like-
wise bled, and the blood equally florid as the others, her
pulse varying from 90 to 130 As the coniplaiiit in-
creased, the lost all appetite, but complained of a violent
thirst, and a contraction in the upper part of her throat,
but did not complain of any pain there ; expressed an
aversion to water and all other fluids, which, when she
latterly even attempted to swallow, was sure to bring on
a convulsive spasm ; though she once or twice eat a little
bread and butter, she even became so averse to fluids,
that she calmly requested that no water rsor the like
might be even -offered, yet declared that a quart of cold
water could not quench her thirst. She was alarmed if
approached close or suddenly, and even the appearance
of water made her shudder with a shriek; at times the
spasms of her throat and tinder jaw were violent and
frequent ; latterly, she sometimes talked incoherently,
and when she attempted to swallow any thing had to spit
it out. She died a little after eight o'clock, oil the morn-
ing of the 23d, without ally great or remarkable struggle.
itrad, y fortnight died at Gainsbro,' in the prime of
life, of the hydrophobia, Mr. liner's; wpm* oc
two months ago he was playing with a small dog ee his
own house, the animal seized his lip, and not ang syrup.
toeas of the direful malady was discovered until Sunday
fortnight, whets he because raving mad, and expiated on
the nest day.
Another of those horrible instances of canine madness
occurred last Alootlay, at No. 1, Owens-court, Goswell-
street-road. liarriot Locke, from Gloucester, a young
woman in service at a gentleman's house near High-
bury, was bitten in the foot by her master's dog, It
weeks ago, at which time another female servant and
the footman were each bitten by the same dog. CMS.
tier. had been applied to the bite, but apparently to no
etfect. Out Friday last, she wits very much indisposed,
and told the good woman with whom she lodged. that
she thoietht she was about to he attacked by a rheumatic
Icier. On Sunday she isas seized vs:tit sympi ;;;;; s of
madness, which increased hi the eviiiiinz to such a
degree, that during the paroxysms, the exertions of six
men were required to pietism her tearing iterielf to
pieces; her shrieks were most appalling, they resembles'
rather the shrill tote of a hound than any thing I all,
and could hr distinctly heard at the New-river. She had
several lucid intervals, during winch she seemed perfectly
sensible, and qiitte aware of her awful condition. Site
most touchingly lamenterl to the bystanders that she had
not iseeti win to the sea-side to be cured, then perceiving
that tile heads of the persons round her were covered
with the foam from her h, she said." she hoped it
would not hurt them, and begged them to take care.
:est she should bite them when in the fit." Then she
VIM el cry, " Now it is touting on." The paroxysms
,old their return. which were repeated with visitations
dreadful to describe, till four o'clock on Nfondsy
iriling, when she expired—a most terrific and include-
sing spectacle. From this sad end of one of the three
persons bitten, it is hoped that every precaution has been
t•. ken to avert from the other two the attack of this fatal

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