Word: hydrophobia
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...travails of my freshman year at Harvard was added the humiliation of learning at last to swim, with my [psoriasis] and my hydrophobia, in a class of quite naked boys,” he wrote...
...hadephobia: ... hell hagiophobia: ...saints or holy things harpaxophobia: ... being robbed hedonophobia: ... feeling pleasure heliophobia: ... the sun hemophobia: ... blood herpetophobia: ... reptiles heterophobia: ... opposite sex hodophobia: ... road travel homichlophobia: ... fog homilophobia: ... sermons homophobia: ... homosexuality hoplophobia: ... firearms hydrophobia: .... water hypegiaphobia: ... responsibility...
...gruesome and inexorable way it progresses once it takes hold of a victim. It attacks the nervous system, producing symptoms such as irrational furies, fearfulness and foaming at the mouth. The difficulty that patients have in swallowing water or food led to the disease's other common name: hydrophobia. Since the virus moves through the body inside nerve tissue rather than the blood, the disease triggers no antibodies and can't be detected during its incubation. Once it reaches the brain, death is virtually inevitable...
...back part of his head with his right big toe. Such displays of animal high spirits were not, however, confined to the gentleman's later years. When young, Waterton made four separate trips to South America, where he sought the wourali poison (a cure, he was convinced, for hydrophobia), and once spent months on end with one foot dangling from his hammock in the quixotic hope of having his toe sucked by a vampire...
...complaints in which (extract of hemp) has been specifically recommended are neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, tetanus, hydrophobia, epidemic cholera, convulsions, chorea, hysteria, mental depression, delirium tremens, insanity, and uterine hemorrhage...