13 FEBRUARY 1892, Page 16

BARKING AND HYDROPHOBIA.

fro THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—In the Spectator of February 6th, a correspondent mentions a barking epidemic at Leicester in the Middle Ages. May I call attention- to a similar one at Alexandria in the year 516 P It is recorded by Theophanes in the following words : f` vii Amearapfief wAficrror drapfc xat yvvreix“ x.a.1 riprra lush iamyirrsc Rao Beirpopay g9p6a; Oteiwrovr." ("And in the same year in Alexandria, large numbers of men and women and children were smitten in a fearful manner by demons, and barked all together.")