TRAGEDY OF HYDROPHOBIA.
FATHER ATTACKS HIS CHILD. 7 PARIS, June 2. A remarkable case of hydrophobia occurred yesterday at Mouche,' a. suburb of 'Lyons, when a man named- Jacques Mignot, bitten by a mad dog four months ago, felt a paroxysm approaching, and ran into the garden of his house, crying, to his wife and daughter not to come near him The girl, .however, insisted^ on going" to him, and with a shout of agony he suddenly bent down and bit her. in the neck. Neighbours were summoned and- secured ..Mignot after he had bitten one of them. While he fought with them h© cried continually. "I cannot help it! I cannot help it!"
While pn the way to tlie hospital his friends stuffed lettuce leaves into his mouth to prevent him biting those around him : . Mignot was fully .cognisant of bis condition all the time, and asked to be put into a strait-waistcoat ahd placed in an isolated* room where his shouts and screams would not terrify the other patients.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11123, 24 July 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)
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171TRAGEDY OF HYDROPHOBIA. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11123, 24 July 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)
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