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Hydrophobia   Listen
noun
Hydrophobia  n.  (Med.)
(a)
An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence:
(b)
A viral disease trransmitted by a bite from, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and constriction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness. (Written also hydrophoby)






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"Hydrophobia" Quotes from Famous Books



... almost to have "banks," properly speaking, Mrs Gilmour pointed out to Nell the "great water plantain," with its sprigs of little lilac blossoms and beautiful green leaves, like those of the lily of the valley somewhat. The plant is said to be used in Russia as a cure for hydrophobia, the good lady explained; though she added that she could not vouch ...
— Bob Strong's Holidays - Adrift in the Channel • John Conroy Hutcheson

... to say," their young leader answered. "I don't like to see our party cheated out of our vacation. Neither do I care to take too many chances of having our vacation changed into a tragedy. I've never had hydrophobia, but I've a strong notion that it wouldn't be pleasant. I know just how you fellows feel. You hate to ...
— The High School Boys' Fishing Trip • H. Irving Hancock

... promptly bit him in the leg. Now the great and good work which this poodle had been engaged in had engendered in him such a mighty and augmenting enthusiasm as to turn his weak head at last and drive him mad. A month later, when the benevolent physician lay in the death-throes of hydrophobia, he called his weeping friends about ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... landscape-painting, beauty. III. 1. Perception consists in imitation. Four kinds of imitation. 2. Voluntary. Dogs taught to dance. 3. Sensitive. Hence sympathy, and all our virtues. Contagious matter of venereal ulcers, of hydrophobia, of jail-fever, of small-pox, produced by imitation, and the sex of the embryon. 4. Irritative imitation. 5. Imitations resolvable ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... mountains from West Virginia to east Tennessee, and is found in Florida; but is everywhere less abundant than the bear. It is possible that this destruction of the wolves is due to some disease among them, perhaps to hydrophobia, a terrible malady from which it is known that they suffer greatly at times. Perhaps the bear is helped by its habit of hibernating, which frees it from most dangers during winter; but this cannot be the complete explanation, for in the South it does ...
— Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches • Theodore Roosevelt


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