One Babylonian list of maladies, in grouping the dog bite together with the scorpion sting and the snakebite, describes the canine affliction as "the bite that grows up." The surviving incantation against this bite use a curious metaphor to describe what the dog's jaws have left in the wound: the dog's "semen is carried in his mouth," and "where it has bitten, it has left its child."
Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy, Rabid: The Cultural History of the Worldโs Most Diabolical Virus.




















