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HYDROPHOBIA. 
HYDROPHOBIA FROM THE BITE OF A CAT. 
A correspondent of the Cork Examiner states, that twenty- 
eight days exactly from last Saturday, the 5th of March, 
a poor but industrious woman here, while in the act of 
taking a cat out of a child’s bed into which it had entered, 
was seized on by the animal and severely bitten. The cat 
fastened so firmly on the woman’s hand that she could not 
shake it off. She beat it — dragged it, and used other violence 
towards it, but to no avail. The cat still held its hold, and 
it was only when the unfortunate woman’s husband appeared, 
and had beaten the cat dreadfully on the head, that it 
relinquished its grasp. That night the woman felt exceed- 
ingly cold — and from then until last Saturday was very 
much troubled in mind, and, at intervals, suffered a good 
deal from headaches. On Saturday she became alarmingly 
ill, as if in high fever, and was attended by her clergyman, 
who, on learning from her husband the fact, that she had 
been bitten by a cat, at once suspected the cause of her 
sickness, and speedily saw his suspicions confirmed, by her 
frightful abhorrence of any species of liquid nourishment. 
Two medical men, from the neighbouring town, were sum- 
moned to her assistance, who declared at once that she was 
suffering from hydrophobia. On Sunday she w as perfectly 
delirious, but only at intervals. So also on Monday, Tues- 
day, and during a few hours on Wednesday, on which day, 
at four o’clock, a. m., she died quietly, being completely 
enfeebled for want of nourishment. 
HYDROPHOBIA IN SHEEP. 
To the Editor of the Times. 
Sir, — On reading the Times of the 25th inst., the account 
of some sheep going mad, in consequence of being bitten by 
a dog, I was struck with the similarity of that case to one 
that has occurred in this neighbourhood, namely, the parish 
of Wootton, within the last few weeks. The difference 
between the two cases consists in this, that the dog could 
not be traced, nor has it since been heard of. Two neigh- 
bouring farmers, Mr. Whitehouse and Mr. Whitworth, had 
their flocks of sheep worried on the same night, and on 
the following morning found that several of the sheep were 
severely bitten about the ears. No further notice w r as taken, 
