DBook II RABIES 131

they crave for them to drink. It may be, then, that as I said
in my work 'Sympathy', phantasy awakens in them the recollec—
tion of certain things that are wont to inspire fright; for this
may happen in rabies also. And since foam appears on the
patient's mouth and there is liquefaction$ö? of the heart especial—
ly, he accordingly has a phantasy that anything liquid is fatal
for him, and therefore is terrified when he sees or touches any—
thing liquid, or even hears that it is being offeared. to him.

'The sufferers also, on very slight grounds, have the phantasy
that they see horrible things; for instance, when they see small
figures on the walls, one often observes that they imagine these
to be wolves or dogs, and they shriek and order them to be tak—
en away.

Or, again, the explanation may be that, as I have said in my
work 'Sympathy,9* things that have become very dry may
crave and attraet to themselves things moist, provided their
form per se remains as it is by nature, even though by its activity
and by way of the accidental, it is changed. On the other
hand, when the dryness has arrived at such a degree that the
form can no longer preserve its nature but has already fallen
away from it, then those dry things, far from craving moisture,
abhor and reject it as an opposite, as in fact happens when a
patient is near death. For he then so abhors every sort of food
and drink that nothing more distressing or horrible than food
and drink can be offered him; the reason being that the patient's
organs have now been robbed of their own proper nature.
Just so, then, in rabies such extreme dryness is caused that
nature has already collapsed and now regards as contrary and
horrible the very things that she used to regard as suitable
and good; not only the drinking of every kind of liquid is
s&hunned, but also the phantasy engenders a horror of the thing
itself. It is manifest that those who are affected by rabies dry
up, since they actually fall into convulsions caused by that
dryness.

"The reason why those who lie down under a sorb—tree are
again attacked by rabies if they have previously suffered from
that disease, is a precisely similar latent cause, that is, if the
current report about it is really trues* It is quite possible
that the vapors which are continually exhaled from that tree,
vapors of styptic quality and, if one may say so, melancholie,
may when carried to a human being and heated within his