Hydrophobia

Abstract

I THINK it cannot fail to interest some of the readers of NATURE to know what is written “in the Talmud of old—in the legends the Rabbins have told” about this baneful malady. I have therefore translated a fragment preserved in this ancient work, which, read through the mist of ages and wrapped in the garb of expressions and ideas of a long-ago past, may be of value to the antiquarian, and perhaps not wholly uninteresting to the man of science.