The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Frightful case of hydrophobia.

--We have just heard, from one of our citizens, who returned from Arrarat, Pa., of a distressing case of hydrophobia. The facts of the case are as follows: About two years ago Miss Sarah Low, the daughter of Lewis Low, a respectable farmer, started to visit a neighbor across the fields, a short distance, and after going a little distance was furiously attacked by a large dog, (afterwards ascertained to be mad,) who tore nearly all the clothes off her; but reaching a stone fence Miss Low succeeded in getting over, and the dog, in attempting to follow, pulled down a large stone, which, falling on his foot, held him fast, and Miss L. escaped (as she supposed at the time) without being bitten. A few months ago Miss Low was married to Mr. Townsend, and on Sunday, the 3d inst., while herself and husband were riding in a carriage to her father's house, Mrs. T. exhibited signs of hydrophobia. Mr. T. hurried on to their destination, and during the night Mrs. T. was attacked with spasms, and was so violent that it required several men to restrain her — she attempting, during the spasms, to bite any one within her reach. She continued in the same way up to the time our informant left, (Friday morning, 9th instant,) and it was supposed that she could not survive much longer. It is believed, by her friends, that when attacked by the mad dog, two years ago, there must have been some abrasion of the skin, not observed at the time, through which some virus from the mad dog penetrated the system.-- Binghamton (N. Y.) Rep.