(By the way, I am told that hydrophobia is unknown in Cochin China.). From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither] Reference
A disease that resembles hydrophobia, that is accompanied by the most frightful convulsions and spasms. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews] Reference
"You end up having what people often refer to as hydrophobia -- a fear of water. From Wordnik.com. [WBALTV.com - Local News] Reference
I am miserably sick at sea, and regard with horror and a kind of hydrophobia the great gulf that lies between us. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Adam Smith]
This is called hydrophobia (fear of water). From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
The seeds were formerly thought to cure hydrophobia. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Maybe the others would be sorry when he died of hydrophobia. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Big Front Door] Reference
Which is the more dreadful, hydrophobia or delirium tremens?. From Wordnik.com. [Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City] Reference
The only things I'm sure of are blood poisoning and hydrophobia. From Wordnik.com. [Dick in the Everglades] Reference
It is also wrong to inform the child of the probability of hydrophobia. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
The reviews of the book, some of them, reached the point of hydrophobia. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
Pasteur did not overcome hydrophobia by writing treatises and dissertations. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting France] Reference
Empire the Water Plantain is still regarded as efficacious against hydrophobia. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
You see he is a Spitz; but do not be frightened: he will never have hydrophobia. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, November 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 5 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers] Reference
It is their belief that a bite from this creature will always convey hydrophobia. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
The method of treatment of hydrophobia met with extraordinarily violent opposition. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Germ Life] Reference
Who can comprehend by what impenetrable means the bite of a mad dog produces hydrophobia?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
Ages, the hair of the dog that bit you is used to heal the bite and to prevent hydrophobia. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
It is by this power, apparently, that the inoculation against hydrophobia produces its effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Germ Life] Reference
M. Pasteur and other French savants have lately been devoting special attention to hydrophobia. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
This treatment will, if conducted under favorable circumstances, absolutely prevent hydrophobia. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
I told Kate about how crazy they were acting and I asked her if they maybe had hydrophobia or something. From Wordnik.com. [A Grave Denied]
To regard every can as a source of botulism is worse than regarding every dog as a source of hydrophobia. From Wordnik.com. [Every Step in Canning] Reference
Tetanus or lockjaw and hydrophobia are now amenable to cure while formerly all cases were practically fatal. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Symptoms of hydrophobia very soon set in, and in a short time the victim was a confirmed case of the disease. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
This occurred just at the time when Pasteur, the famous Paris doctor, had discovered a remedy for hydrophobia. From Wordnik.com. [The One Great Reality] Reference
It is not impossible that here, at length, a means may have been found for combating the horrors of hydrophobia. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
The result is that after a short time the individual has acquired the power of resisting the hydrophobia poisons. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Germ Life] Reference
For example, great virtues were ascribed to the herb alysson which was pounded and eaten with meat to cure hydrophobia. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Every shop is obliged to keep a vessel with water at the threshold of the outer door, to assist in avoiding hydrophobia. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
It was also prescribed for hydrophobia, and linen cloths saturated with a decoction were kept applied to the bitten part. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
How about diseases like hydrophobia — rabies — that attacks any warm-blooded creature, whatever its body-chemistry may be?. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Its root is highly esteemed in Russia for the cure of hydrophobia, being regarded by the doctors as a specific for that disease. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
After some lapse of time, however, Mrs Duff was seized with symptoms of hydrophobia, and soon fell a victim to that dreadful disorder. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
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