[Sidenote: _Vid. Polan. Rolloc. & alios in Dan._ _c._ 4. _v._ 16.] [Sidenote: The World surveyed, _part._ 2. _c._ 19. _p._ 270. History.] 4. That this was only a mental and internal transformation, as are many sorts of Melancholy, especially that which Physicians call _Lycanthropia_, or _Melancholia lupina_, _Rabies canina_, and the like, is most manifest by comparing it with some of these that we have named; of which (though we have related some before) we shall give some few, from Authors of credit and veracity. 1. And first concerning the effects of that Madness caused by the biting of a mad Dog, we have a most sad and deplorable story recited by _Philip Salmuth_, that experienced Physician of _Anhalt_, which we shall here give in English: “Many (he saith) do verily think that the force of this poyson will break out, and appear within a few months or years. But experience doth altogether testifie the contrary. As certain learned Authors do commemorate, that it hath laid hid in some the space of seven years, but in others it hath broke forth in the twelfth. _Guainerius_ also mentioneth a certain person, to whom the _Hydrophobia_ did happen the 18. year after he was bitten by the mad Dog. Moreover (he continueth) a most Noble person of _Hagen_ hath told me, that a certain Noble man was bitten in the face by a little pretty Dog, which he much delighted in, and that the seeds of that poyson, as it were nourished in his bosom for a long time, at the last did suddenly break forth. For after that for some years feeling no molestation nor trouble from that bite, he addressing himself to a Virgin did marry. And the nuptial Supper being ended, and the Bride brought to the Marriage-bed, her Kinsfolks a little after do hear her complaining and lamenting. At which they laughed and jested, thinking it but to be the Venereal sport. But that howling continuing late, they by force do break the barred doors of the Chamber, and enter, and find that the Bridegroom had bitten with his teeth, plainly after the manner of a Dog, the face of the Bride, and also the shoulders and arms, and the fleshy places, and still did not give over the same sort of biting. Being much astonished with this sad spectacle and cruel wickedness, they with an ireful and provoked mind do forthwith slay him: and the new Bride also died the same day.” Though this he had but by relation, yet it was from a person of great quality; and if he had not been reasonably assured of the truth of it, he would never have writ it down amongst his Medical Observations. But this is also attested by other Authors of sufficient credit, of divers of this sort of persons, that have both barked and bitten like Dogs, and this is testified by _Scribonius Largus_ and _Rhases_, as _Baptista Codronchus_ hath cited them; and learned _Sennertus_ tells us this: “That some (if bitten with Dogs) do bark like Dogs, and flye at whomsoever they meet, and that against or besides their will.