154 RABIES. 



called for large damages ; but, if other cases of the same kind should be 

 brought into court after this had been made public, he hoped the jury 

 would go beyond the ordinary limits, and give verdicts which might ope- 

 rate in terrorem on the offending parties. 



Verdict for the plaintiff damages 36/. a 



A child was bitten by a rabid dog at York, and became hydrophobous. 

 All possibility of relief having vanished, the parents, desirous of putting 

 an end to the agony of their child, or fearful of its doing mischief, 

 smothered it between two pillows. They were tried for murder, and 

 found guilty. They were afterwards pardoned ; but the intention of the 

 prosecutor \vas that of deterring others from a similar practice, in a like 

 unfortunate situation. 1 * 



In 1821, a physician, at Poissy, was sentenced to pay 8000 francs (320?.) 

 to a poor widow whose husband died of hydrophobia, in consequence of a 

 bite from the physician's dog, he knowing that the dog had been bitten, 

 yet not confining him. 



R Sporting Magazine, vol. xviii. p. 186. b Daniel's Rural Sports, vol. i. p. 220. 



