Editorial February 6, 1902 Issue

False Hydrophobia

Editor

The above is the caption of a story appearing in the newspapers which is but a repetition of many similar events.

It seems that at a hospital in Lynn, Mass., a young man named William F. Waters recently died as the result of what physicians, in late years, have come to call "false hydrophobia."

After his death the doctors diagnosed the case and pronounced it false hydrophobia. They said Waters imagined he had that disease and worried himself into the semblance of it. About a year before, he was bitten in the hand by a dog. Would-be jokers predicted that he would have hydrophobia and, as a result, he became melancholy.

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