The Ephemerides contains an account of hydrophobia caused by a human bite.

Jones reports a case of syphilitic inoculation from a human bite on the hand.
Hydrophobia may not necessarily be from a bite; a previously-existing wound may be inoculated by the saliva alone, conveyed by licking.
Pliny, and some subsequent writers, attributed rabies to a worm under the animal's tongue which they called "lytta." There is said to be a superstition in India that, shortly after being bitten by a mad dog, the victim conceives pups in his belly; at about three months these move rapidly up and down the patient's intestines, and being mad like their progenitor, they bite and bark incessantly, until they finally kill the unfortunate victim.

The natives of Nepaul firmly believe this theory.

All sorts of curious remedies have been suggested for the cure of hydrophobia.

Crabs-claws, Spanish fly, and dragon roots, given three mornings before the new or full moon, was suggested as a specific by Sir Robert Gordon.