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CHAPTER XIV
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Fox reports several cases of death from symptoms resembling those of hydrophobia in persons who were bitten by skunks.

Swine, birds, and even domestic poultry have caused hydrophobia by their bites.

Le Cat speaks of the bite of an enraged duck causing death, and Thiermeyer mentions death shortly following the bite of a goose, as well as death in three days from a chicken-bite.

Camerarius describes a case of epilepsy which he attributed to a horse-bite.

Among the older writers speaking of death following the bite of an enraged man, are van Meek'ren, Wolff, Zacutus Lusitanus, and Glandorp.


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