BIBLIOGRAPHY.--Among the numerous earlier works on hydropathy, the following are worth mention: Balbirnie, _Water Cure in Consumption_ (1847), _Hydropathic Aphorisms_ (1856) and _A Plea for the Turkish Bath_ (1862); Beni-Barde, _Traité d'hydrothérapie_ (1874); Claridge, _Cold Water Cure, or Hydropathy_ (1841), _Facts and Evidence in Support of Hydropathy_ (1843) and _Cold Water, Tepid Water and Friction Cure_ (1849); Dunlop, _Philosophy of the Bath_ (1873); Floyer, _Psychrolousia, or the History of Cold-Bathing_, &c. (1702); J. S. Hahn (Schweidnitz), _Observations on the Healing Virtues of Cold Water_ (1738); Hunter, _Hydropathy for Home Use_ (1879); E. W. Lane, _Hydropathy, or the Natural System of Medical Treatment_ (1857); R. J. Lane, _Life at the Water Cure_ (1851); Shew, _Hydropathic Family Physician_ (1857); Smedley, _Practical Hydropathy_ (1879); Smethurst, _Hydrotherapia, or the Water Cure_ (1843); Wainwright, _Inquiry into the Nature and Use of Baths_ (1737); Weiss, _Handbook of Hydropathy_ (1844); Wilson _Principles and Practice of the Cold Water Cure_ (1854) and _The Water Cure_ (1859). A useful recent work dealing comprehensively with the subject is Richard Metcalfe's _Rise and Progress of Hydropathy_ (1906). HYDROPHOBIA (Gr. [Greek: Hydor], water, and [Greek: phobos], fear; so called from the symptom of dread of water), or RABIES (Lat. for "madness"), an acute disease, occurring chiefly in certain of the lower animals, particularly the canine species, and liable to be communicated by them to other animals and to man. _In Dogs, &c._--The occurrence of rabies in the fox, wolf, hyaena, jackal, raccoon, badger and skunk has been asserted; but there is every probability that it is originally a disease of the dog. It is communicated by inoculation to nearly all, if not all, warm-blooded creatures. The transmission from one animal to another only certainly takes place through inoculation with viruliferous matters. The malady is generally characterized at a certain stage by an irrepressible desire in the animal to act offensively with its natural weapons--dogs and other carnivora attacking with their teeth, herbivora with their hoofs or horns, and birds with their beaks, when excited ever so slightly. In the absence of excitement the malady may run its course without any fit of fury or madness.