Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Locations
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- I remember taking 'part in' a mad dog chase. He was shot foaming dreadfully at the mouth. Even today every strange dog is looked upon as a mad dog & children ran from him in dread with the cry "mad dog!" Thus the aftermath of a regime of terror persist for generations. At that time even those suffered from extreme delerium tremens were temporarily confined in the asylum, so great was the fear of hydrophobia & the human bite was most carefully cauterised "I'd sooner get the bite of a mad-dog than have anything to do with that fellow(continues on next page)A more recent version of this transcript is awaiting approval
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