452 DREADFUL CONSEQUENCES. 



such is the substance of a paragraph that recently met 

 my eye in a Swedish journal, " has during a single day 

 (April 25, 1851) bitten no less than forty-six persons and 

 eighty-two head of cattle. The accounts are very afflicting. 

 The consequences have begun to show themselves. One 

 person is dying after another in the most frightful agonies. 

 All the cattle were purposely destroyed. The treatment 

 recommended in similar cases namely, that the wound 

 should be kept in a state of suppuration for fifty days 

 has not been adopted, so that probably none of those 

 bitten can be saved." 



Another account, dated August 18, 1852, ran as follows: 

 " The small town of Adalia, in the Turkish territories, 

 has just been the scene of a sad catastrophe. On the 7th 

 of July a mad wolf rushed into the place, attacked and 

 severely bit several individuals in the street ; but becoming 

 at length alarmed at the cries of the people, he made for the 

 gardens at the outskirts of the town. In consequence of this 

 being the time of the silkworm harvest, several hundred 

 individuals slept in one and the same garden, and one 

 hundred and twenty-eight of them were severely wounded ! 

 Owing to the Governor having recently taken from the 

 inhabitants every kind of weapon, the unhappy people 

 found themselves without any means of defence. The wolf 

 was at length driven thence also ; but the same night he 

 attacked a flock of sheep, and killed eighty-five of them. It 

 was not until the following day that the people, to whom 

 the Governor had returned their arms, succeeded in destroy- 

 ing the beast. The report of a medical man resident in the 

 town, in regard to the wounded, is frightful. The most 

 shocking part of the affair is, that several of those bitten have 



