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descriptions of the death of the Russian moujiks and for
days nobody spoke of anything else.
Late one night the following week a
well-known Norwegian animal painter came rushing to
Avenue de Villiers in a state of fearful agitation.
He had been bitten in the hand by his beloved
dog, an enormous bull-dog, most
ferocious-looking, but hitherto most amiable and a great friend
of mine—his portrait painted by his master had
besides been in the Salon the year before. We
drove at once to the studio in Avenue des Termes.
The dog was locked up in the bedroom and his
master wanted me to shoot him at once, he said
he had not the courage to do it himself. The dog
was running to and fro, now and then hiding under
the bed with a savage growl. The room was so
dark that I put the key in my pocket and decided
to wait till next morning. I disinfected and
dressed the wound and gave the Norwegian a
sleeping-draught for the night. I watched the
dog attentively the next morning and decided to
postpone shooting him till the following day as I
was not quite certain he really had hydrophobia,
notwithstanding all the appearances. Errors of
diagnosis in the early stages of rabies are very
common. Even the classical symptom which
has given its name to the dreaded disease—
hydrophobia means horror of water—is not to be relied
upon. The rabid dog does not abhor water. I
have often seen a rabid dog drink with avidity
from a bowl of water I had put in his cage. It is
only with human beings affected with rabies that
this symptom holds good. A great number, if
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