But let a lady or a gentleman walking along the street have a dog bite them, and they worry themselves till their blood is in a fever, and they have to hurry across to France to get Pasteur to cure them.

They imagine they've got hydrophobia, and they've got it because they imagine it.

I believe if I fixed my attention on that right thumb of mine, and thought I had a sore there, and picked at it and worried it, in a short time a sore would come, and I'd be off to the doctor to have it cured.

At the same time dogs have no business to bite, and I don't recommend any one to get bitten." "But, uncle," said Miss Laura, "isn't there such a thing as hydrophobia ?" "Oh, yes; I dare say there is.

I believe that a careful examination of the records of death reported in Boston from hydrophobia for the space of thirty-two years, shows that two people actually died from it.