The Archive · 1921

Death from Fear

At Jurangon, in the Basses Pyrenees, a man was bitten by a dog and sent to the Pasteur Institute at Bordeaux.

He was sent home in a few days. but declared he was not cured and returned. He was again sent home, but after manifesting all the dread symptoms of the terrible disease, and crying out to be muzzled, he died.

It has now been demonstrated that the dog was entirely free from rabies, and the specialists declare that the man, who was of neurasthetic disposition and suffered severely from shell-shock as a legacy and that] of the war, really died a victim to his own fear.

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