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hydrophobia: tags: [pathosis]

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Definition:

rabies. Called such since one of the symptoms is a fear of water despite overwhelming thirst.

^{painting: by Claude Monet. Head of the Dog (and it looks rabid...) https://www.wikiart.org/en/claude-monet/head-of-the-dog}

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“They always bark for a day or two after they’re bit, if the infection comes first from the dog.”

“You are surely not speaking of hydrophobia?” said I, my hair actually bristling with horror and consternation.

“Ain’t I?” replied he; “maybe you’ve guessed it, though.”

Humours of Irish Life: Charles Lever. A Pleasant Journey

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Suppose we had here in Boston, or New York, the hydrophobia; suppose a citizen were in pursuit of the mad dog which introduced it; would any of my readers say to the citizen, never mind the dog, let him go but take care of the hydrophobia? Assuredly not the name, the color, the appearance of the dog, and the symptoms of his madness, should be proclaimed to the public, lest he might scatter the hydrophobia still further amongst them.

William Hogan. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries (1854)

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What are the Medical vertues of the Sea, especially against Hydrophobia?

The Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies,and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume I (1666)

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The kidnapper undid the bloody wrappings and looked at his lacerated hand. "If I don't get the hydrophoby—"

Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)

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Shavrov was an expert in nap-of-the-earth flying, having learned it by necessity, hunting the bandits and couterrevolutionaries that hid in the towering moutains like hydrophobic rats.

Tom Clancy. The Hunt for Red October, p.173 (1984)

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