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734 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. VI.
tails, jaw-bones (D. R.— neck) and shoulders of such
infurated animals naturally droop down, attended with
a copious flow of saliva from their mouths. The beasts
in such a state of frenzy, blinded and deafened by rage,
roam about and bite each other 7 -A.
Symptoms of Hydrophobia :- The limb
or part of the body of a person bitten by such a rabid
and (consequently) poisonous animal loses its sensi-
bility of touch, and a copious flow of dark sooty blood
is emitted from the seat of the bite. The patient in
such a case generally exhibits all the symptoms which
mark a case of poisoning by a venomed arrow. 7-B.
Prognosis :— A person bitten by a rabid ani-
mal barks and howls like the animal by which he is
bitten, imitates it in many other ways and, bereft of
the specific functions and faculties of a human subject,
ultimately dies. If a person, bitten by a rabid animal,
sees its (imaginaryj image reflected in water or in a
mirror, he should be deemed to have reached an unfavour-
able stage of the disease. 7-C.
Symptoms of Jala-trasa :— If the patient
ill such a case becomes exceedingly frightened at the
sight or mention of the very name of water, he
should be understood to have been afflicted with
Jala-trzisa (Hydrophobia) and be deemed to have been
doomed. Such a case of Jala-trasa (water-scare) even in
an unbitten person or in a healthy person, if frightened
(by such a scare), whether waking or in sleep, should
be regarded as a fatal symptom. 7.
Treatment : — in the case of a bite by a rabid
animal, the seat of the bite should be profusely bled
(by pressing it) so as to let out all the (vitiated) blood.
It should then be cauterized with (boiling) clarified
butter and pasted with any of the aforesaid Agada,
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