Sentence:  A young man, 24 years of age, employed as a clerk in a dry goods store, was bitten on a Saturday morning bu a watchdog belonging to the proprietor. ... [H]e stated that he had been reading about rabies and the symptoms which would develop in man from the bite of a rabid dog, and insisted that he was developing <WSD>hydrophobia</WSD> as a result of having been bitten by the watchdog. ... Two days later the young man was in a very hysterical state and kept insisting that the dog that bit him was rabid. ... Here was a typical case of lyssophobia or pseudo-rabies, a figment of an overworked imagination, ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An aversion to water, as a symptom of rabies;  the disease of rabies itself.