SINGULAR-CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1578, 7 June 1887, Page 2

SINGULAR- CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA.

There was quite a panic (the Paris cor. respondent of the " Dally Telegraph " says) m a house In the Avenue Montaigne. A man m his nightshirt wu saen writhing and rolling about In the courtyard, uttering the moat appalling cries, and calling on the neighbors to give him a wide b9tth, as he was mid. The servants and hangers-on of the establishment had tab en the hint and fldd for their lives. But there had been some method m this general saute quipeut,tor Dr Que'rln, the well-known physiolan, and the nearest police inspector had been communicated with, and were promptly on the qgene. A strait- wahtobat was pub on' the unf c rtanate man, who was carried off on a stretcher to the Beaajon Hospital, while Mdme. Charles de Lesseps herself drove off In search of M. Paeteur. This 10, to all appearance, a very strange oaao. i The patient, Lou's Teste, twenty-seven | years of age, and formerly fn the i fire brigade, was m the servloa |of the Leseeps family. One Monday he took a dog of his to a veterinary Burgeon, who said that he would keep it for a short time. On the following day, when Teete called to ask how the animal was getting on, the surgeon replied that the dog was mad. Testa was horrified at the statement, as he remembered that only a few days before the dog bad iioked a sore on his face, and when he returned to the Avenue Mon« taigne he spoke of the shock which the news had caused to him. Ho was extremely depressed throughout the day, could not sleep at night, and, going from bid to worse, foil Into the state whloh necessitated his removal to the hospltaL The question Is whether this is a genuine oaee of rabies produced by the licking of Teste'e face by his dog, or whether the symptoms are the result of the shook of which the man complained, working on m very Imaginative nature. The affair It exoitlng a great deal of interest : bat M. Pasteur will m a oho it time be able to throw some Hght on this strange oase.