REPORTS OF CASES. 
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Billings, of Nebraska. Now, Mr. Editor, with your permission, 
and a small space in the Review, I will state some of my observa¬ 
tions of hydrophobia in the human subject, as well as that of the 
brute creation. I will at present only mention the case of one 
rabid dog and the disastrous results to.life that occurred in Bur¬ 
lingame County, Kansas, twenty-eight years ago. I am prompted 
to make a statement of this case from a desire to have it recorded 
for future generations to read, rather than to enlighten any one 
who may be well informed. 
One evening between sundown and dark, as I was going 
home, I saw Mrs. Paiks about a block ahead coming towards me, 
and a large black dog close behind her on a brisk trot. I imme¬ 
diately put the lady on her guard. As she looked round, the 
brute was at her right side, and taking her face in his mouth, he 
pulled her to the ground; then, turning a square angle, he ran 
off and left her. I took Mrs. Barks to her home and dressed her 
wounds. They healed by first intention. An effort was made to 
quiet her mind as to the animal being rabid, but this was of no 
avail, as she insisted that he was mad. One week from the time 
of her injuries she was taken to Missouri to try the effects of a 
madstone, and the result appearing satisfactory, she returned 
home on the twenty-eighth day after she was bitten. I saw her 
that evening; she was cheerful, and apparently in good health. 
Saw her the next morning, and the first words that struck my 
ears were, “ 1 am mad ! I am mad ! ” In answer to the question 
as to her reasons for thinking so, she replied, “ I have alternate 
paroxysms of heat and cold through every nerve and fibre of my 
body.” Towards evening a phlegm in her throat became very 
troublesome, and next day so much so that a pan of ashes was 
used for her to spit in. When holding the pan for her, she 
would exclaim, “ Don’t come too close to me, for I have a great 
desire to bite J ” When a glass of water was presented, she would 
go into terrible convulsions. Either from fear or having no 
desire to do so, she ate or drank nothing during her illness, which 
lasted three days and nights. 
After the rabid brute left Mrs. Parks, he ran into the lot and 
bit one of the horses. From there he went to a barn and bit a 
two-year-old filly and other smaller stock, and then lay down by 
