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* ' , *Salem, Jm 29. A very promifmgchild, abont three years old, fen of Mr. Benjamin Peeie, junr. ofthistown, was, on the aSth of January lail, bitten in'the cheek by a dog belonging to the family, which on the fourth day after died, with all thefymp-totns ofmadneis. 1 he child continued well until! the zilUnffent, when he made feme final! complaints; but on Sunday evening laft he grew fiek, was feverifh, and ^omitted great part of the night ; on Monday , morning, though very thirfty, he refufed to drink any kind of drink, when offered him,, or let it come near his lips; and in the afternoon, as the diforder increafed, every attempt to give him any liquids threw him into great difcrefs, attended with moff violent agitations, which went off with a deep heavy fobbing. The difeafe made fuch rapid progrefs, that he expired, in great agonies about ten o clock the fame evening, about five months after the bite.The father of the abovementioned child was, we hear bitten by the fame animal about the fame time, but as he is at iea, -we know not what effUl it has produced.2nitt3* -1 lied*5t7Perfctin!offci *tne1■ CotioifeeWtendifnatflu:1 .fiu
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New Haven Gazette
New Haven, Connecticut, US
Thu, Jul 13, 1786
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