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Show Dcutlt from Hydrophobia. Chicago, 17. A remarkable case of death by hydrophobia occurred here to-day. A terrier dog, owned by John Sallitt, Western avenue, became be-came lazy and irritable the List week j in June, and one day as Mr. Satlitt's young daughter, Lettie, attempted to put him in his kennel, he bit her on the cheek, drawing blood. Tiie wound healed and caused no alarm; but, last Wednesday, the child was taken unaccountably sick, and her malady gradually increased until the day of iier death, when she began I to gasp, and retching ensued; her ' face turned livid, and her eyes started i from their sockets; she frothed at the mouth, and in the most violent con-I con-I tortious of the body she died. A con-jsultation con-jsultation of physicians decided that it i was, without doubt, a case of hydro-: hydro-: phobia. It is remarkable, in that it ; disproves the theory of Dr. Ham-I Ham-I mood's disciples, that children do not die of hydrophobia, and death ensued here much sooner than usual. |