Medicine: Madness

At Burgas, Bulgaria, 123 gypsies dug out of the ground a cow that had been buried because it had died of rabies. The gypsies ate the cow. Already 20 of them have died in convulsions, rabid.

On the train between Philippopolis and Sofia, Bulgaria, peasants with bulgy eyes and strained expressions are no rarity. Last week on the train such a one suddenly leaped at other third-class passengers, ripped their flesh with his black teeth, jerked his arms a few times, and died—of rabies.

In Oregon Stanley Jewett, predatory animal director for the...

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