Word: hydrophobia
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...Louisville, Ky., 15 families were registered last week with the public health department as having one or more members taking the Pasteur treatment to immunize them against rabies (hydrophobia) caught, it was feared, from the bites of rabid dogs. Private physicians were treating others...
...Manhattan, one William Arthur Ray, Negro, foamed at the mouth, smacked one Julia Green, Negress, on the jaw, was smacked in return, Mr. Ray curled back his thick lips, sank 'his lupine teeth into the hand that had smacked him. Doctors injected Negress Green with the Pasteur hydrophobia serum, placed Biter Ray under the observation system usually reserved for mad dogs...
...cats must be muzzled, said an official edict at Berlin. Any pussyfooted quadruped will be shot on sight if it is muzzleless. The measure was thought necessary owing to several cases of "feline hydrophobia" having been discovered...
...University of Squeegee (S. or N. D., or even Kans. or Ill.); an Ibsen takeoff; historical drama of various sorts; the Russian theatre (Old Style) full of knouts and beautiful Nihilists and (New Style) one of those realistic things in which all the characters suffer from acute hydrophobia and pass their time poisoning each other in underground lodgings; an ideal scenario for the modern movie of uplift that grips poor old marriage right by the neck; The Raft?the kind of interlude that is sandwiched in for 15 minutes between the dances at a revue; so they...
...California girl was bitten by a mountain lion and apparently recovered. But about seven weeks later she developed hydrophobia and died. It is unusual for mountain lions to attack human beings unprovoked, and this is the first instance on record of rabies in this animal, though it is occasionally found in various domestic animals other than dogs. Anti-rabic treatment should be taken as precaution whenever a human is bitten by an animal...