It is a hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes, an insanity that makes him eat grass.
To make that true, one had to redefine ' hydrophobia ' - one had to adopt a new form of speech, and this required justification.
By contrast, earlier on it was not obvious (indeed, it was not even true) that all cases of what was called hydrophobia had the same one cause.
No human being ever recovered who had shown the symptoms of hydrophobia.
Men without cognisance of the seriousness of the offence brought in dogs affected by hydrophobia.
No human being need ever now die of hydrophobia if they take the treatment in time.
If they are searching into hydrophobia or distemper, they naturally select dogs.
In fact, a little hydrophobia would be a good thing.
