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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12656	A declaration of such greiuous accidents as commonly follow the biting of mad dogges, together with the cure thereof, by Thomas Spackman Doctor of Physick	Spackman, Thomas.	1613 (1613)	STC 22977; ESTC S117713	45,532	96

returned againe which being yet then also asswaged they vexed her the next yeare following and the very next yeere after this she had to grieuous fits thereof and the next after that three and this last yeere two Her fits in the three former yeeres were oftner but shorter In almost euery one of the mutations of these times her paines still began in her bitten arme I feare it will bee her death shortly Of all this I am a witnesse and haue been still present c. Thus far D. Abel Roscius This story is produced as a thing of rare contingence The chiefe cause of the so often redintegration of these mad sits in this Gentlewoman in mine opinion was for that the wound at the first curing thereof was healed vp to soone For it should haue been kept open and from healing the space of fortie dayes at the least and again because the hot iron was applied before sufficient abstertion and correction of the venemous matter conteined therein by conuenient lotions and the application of ventozes or horseleeches to the place affected Aetius an ancient writer reporteth a story of a Phylosopher that being bitten with a mad dogge and at length perceiuing his growing into that infirmitie went to wash himselfe in a bath wherein hee thought hee saw a dogge Whereupon musing a pretty while at length he tooke courage and lept into the bath saying what haue dogs to doe with bathes and striuing against the growing infirmitie dranke his belly full of the bath water and so holpt himselfe Dotage or idle talking hath been noted to bee one speciall accident that vsually followeth such as are growing into the extremitie of this cuill thogh alwaies it falleth not out so For Peter Salius before named who had good experience of this bad maladie saith he knew some in great extremitie without any show or token of dotage and so sensible that being persuaded to drinke at such time as they haue trembled at the sight thereof haue requested the offerers of it that they would close their eyes or blindfold them that they might not see the drinke or water offered them and then bad them cast into their mouthes what they thought good or any thing else mixt with their drinke that might be for their helpe And when they grinned or gnashed with their teeth and after a doggish fashion were forced by the strength of the poyson working in them to offer to byte such as were neere them they would pray the by-standers to hold or binde them fast that they might not hurt any body by their byting wishing them not to put their hands or any part of their bodies to their mouthes lest they should snap at them for so the poysonous infection enforced them to doe These saith hee I haue knowen to lament their owne miserie being greatly grieued that they sought not for helpe in due time committing themselues in all things to Gods mercy crauing of him forgiuenesse of their sinnes c. If a man that is fallen madde by the byting of a mad dog doe byte an other man woman or child they likewise will be mad in time except by good meanes it be speedily preuented Yet this madnes caused by a mad mans byting is much more easily preuented and cured then the madnesse of such as haue it immediately from a dog Howbeit the byting of some mad men or women that is such as be blacke or red hayred and freckled is worse than the byting of other colours and among other such as be fasting It hath beene much debated among Writers which should bee the chiefe and most speciall place affected in this maladie some thinking that the synnowes were because of the grieuous convulsions that the sicke haue been vexed with somtimes Other that the brayne in which resteth the seat of the reasonable soule Some the mouth of the stomacke obseruing their maner of vomiting yexing and insatiable thirst Some the heart onely But others whose opinion liketh me best doe beleeue that not onely place or part of the body is affected therwith but many as the heart stomacke midrife head c. For if the venome doe first peirce the veines or arteries it passeth directly to the liuer and heart If it first take possession of the synnowes it mounteth thereby to the braine the membranes or skins enclosing it whereupon follow such terrible convulsions as they are many times afflicted withall and by consent from thence the mouth of the stomacke and consequently the heart For they are not troubled with any feuer till the heart bee touched which indeed is the part that all manner of poyson either mediately or immediately doth inuade Now if I be asked why mad dogs doe so greatly feare water The cause of hydrophobia or water-feare For answer I will produce the opinions of sundry learned Writers concerning this point Hieronymus Capinaccius out of Galen de theriaca ad Pisonem bringeth this for one reason Namely because a madde dog is so exceeding dry as hee hath great need and desire of moysture but being distract in his minde and perseuerance despiseth it and flieth from that which might doe him good This and diuers other opinions of ancient and some moderne Writers are learnedly disproued by Baptista Codronchus who afterward yeeldeth his approbation to others more like to be true But why do men which are reasonable creatures feare also and tremble at the sight of water or other moysture or liquors when they be mad by the byting of a mad dog This saith Capinaccius proceedeth from the great abundance of melancholy that sendeth vp a darke blacke vapour to the braine whereby the animall spirit is made so thicke and cloudie that the action thereof is hurt and perturbed But why doe they feare water more than any other obiect Because of the want of moysture which is in such a manner as the moyst forme of water hath gotten a fearefull impression hereof in the brayne But if water be brought them why is their feare sometime increased and sometime they bee ready to vomit at the sight thereof They be alwaies in feare though they see no water but when they see it their feare is much more increased at the beholding thereof calling sometime to minde their byting with an imagination that they see a dogge therein and they become apt or ready to vomit because the mouth of the stomacke is affected with poyson whereby is stirred vp therein a certaine heauie and grieuous sense that is imparted to the inward sense and is a cause that from the braine is imparted that loathsome and hurtfull desiring power whereby like as if the animall spirit be rightly offred from the braine to the mouth of the stomacke the appetite is good and thereto agreeth the attractiue power of the stomacke euen so while there is offred from the brayne a vitious or corrupt appetiting facultie there followeth loathing and aptnesse to vomit whereto assenteth the expulsiue faculty which is the cause that they

countrie curs which some keep only to be as watchmen in the night to lugge a Hog and eate vp their superfluous crusts and parings And lastly wee must not forget the fine Lady dog that fares of the best lodgeth warme and soft and is trickt vp with siluer bels carefully kept from flees washt and combed with great curiositie and hath more of this worldly pleasure then many a substantiall and honest house-keeper Heare we see such vse and acceptation of all these sorts of dogs as we cannot well spare any of them who beside make themselues the better to be liked because they carry so true and hearty loue toward such as they serue as no brute creatures may be compared with them As I remember a story of which Saint Augustine is reported to be the Author wherein is showne an admirable loue of a dog to his Master The storie is thus A certaine Priest that had a louing dogge on a time trauailing by the way was met by a theefe that bereft him both of his mony and life casting his dead body into anod corner out of the way and so departed The dog would not leaue his Masters body though dead but lay by it howling and crying day and night till by this doing the dead body was sound which being laid openly to be viewed the dog still gaue his attendance thereon At length among other beholders thereof came the theefe that robbed and murthered him making showe of as great sorrow as any other but the dog hauing spied him ran at him and would neuer leaue assayling and barking at him till the rest of the beholders by noting the dogs demeanour and his former attendance on the dead body became suspitious of him that he so fiercely assailed whereupon causing him to bee throughly examined he confessed the fact and was dealt withall according to his desert Scaliger also Exercit. 202. maketh mention of a certaine huntsman that by extremitie of cold was found dead on the top of a snowie mountaine by whose dead bodie lay a great dog keeping it in such sort as he would suffer no man neither the dead mans frends nor any other not so much as such as the dog before did know and was acquainted withall to touch or come neere it But hauing no need to seeke so farre for ancient and forreine stories Thomas Lupton in his notes of memorable things maketh report of no lesse loue in a dog than this that serued an Inkeeper of Ware a through-faire village in the way to and from London This dog loued his Master so exceedingly that after he was dead he sought him vp and down certaine daies with so great sorrow and mourning as nothing could comfort him neither would he eat or drinke at all At length not finding him whom he so carefully sought for he laid himselfe downe in the hot coales in the chimney from whence being pluckt diuers times he notwithstanding would doe so still till he had burnt himselfe to death Though many wiues loue their husbands dearely yet I thinke very few of them would aduenture to make demonstration of their loue by such a conclusion As by these examples the exceeding loue of dogs toward such as they serue is noted for one speciall cause of the regard that is made of them so are they besides this much esteemed for their ingenuous and wittie capacitie in learning many pretty and strange things But as for these and such like causes we loue and like them so if we would consider well the great hurts they often do and may procure both to man and beast by their madnesse which no creature is thought so subiect vnto as they we should rather prouidently haue an eye to them and beware of them then so familiarly entertaine them as we doe especially if we did bethinke our selues that this familiaritie betwixt vs and them maketh vs the lesse circumspect in preuenting the hurt which in a moment we may catch by them For some Writers affirme that there is no meanes to helpe or cure either man or beast that by the byting of a mad dog are become mad Lib. 5. cap. 3. And Paulus Aegineta saith he nener knew aboue one or two cured of this kinde of madnesse and those not immediately bitten of a dog but bitten of such persons as were fallen mad by the byting of a mad dog Now if any desire to know into what kind of passions such doe fall as are bitten of these creatures and not holpen before they be growen mad let them marke these stories following One Baldus of Trident Doctor of both lawes and a very famous man in his profession had a litle fine Lady dog that he did take much delight in and would often play with him This dogge on a time as Mathiolus reporteth snapt his Master by the lip yet so lightly as he made none account of the hurt neither had the least suspition that might bee of the dogs madnesse But hereupon about some foure moneths after this famous Lawyer became so lawlesse so vnruly so outragious and so far beside humane sense and behauiour that notwithstanding all the meanes which were vsed for helpe he died in that madnesse very miserably This may bee an admonition to all such fine Ladies and Gentlewomen as take pleasure in playing with their beloued chamber-dogs to haue a regardfull eye to their chaps Andraeas Baccius Elpidianus a learned Physition writeth thus of a Patient of his that was bitten by a mad dog although with so smal hurt and offence as he regarded it not hauing the wound healed vp within the space of three daies But about a month being past finding himselfe more sad and sorrowful than he was wont to be together with a loathing of himselfe and wondring how it should so come to passe he sent for me saith Baccius inquiring the reason and cause thereof and I finding him weake spirited and lompish aduised him to be carefull of his diet to feed vpon comfortable meates and easie of digestion and to drinke wine for the better strengthning of his spirits more plentifully than he had vsed to doe To which he answered that hee could neither cat nor drinke whereupon I offering him drinke and noting his impotencie in receiuing it opened his mouth but found no cause there of his weaknesse or refusall Then after long bethinking my selfe what might be the cause thereof I asked him whether at any time he had been bitten by any dog To which he answered yes but yet without any great hurt as he thought Wherupon after some words of comfort I acquainted his wife and other of his friends priuately what danger hee was in wishing them to boat him ouer the riuer Tiber by which he dwelt and sodenly to throw him in and sowse him well in the water which they did himselfe being very willing thereto But this practise profiting nothing I made tryall of other meanes vsed in such cases but all in vaine For the same day toward