without symptoms. Under the head of the morbid appearances (119) two
instances will be mentioned in which there were no corresponding
symptoms. In the following case symptoms did pre-exist. A man, six weeks
after being bit by a dog, which was killed without its state of health
having been ascertained, was attacked with a sense of strangling,
impossibility of swallowing, delirium, excessive irritability, glairy
vomiting; and he died within twenty-four hours. The gullet, a little
above the diaphragm, was perforated by a hole two-thirds of an inch in
diameter, with thin edges; and effusion had taken place into the
posterior mediastinum.[188]