Sentence:  Now that I have breathed a little, I am anxious to know your opinion of the nature of that affection in the throat, which deprives a patient of the power of ſwallowing in conſequence of <WSD>hydrophobia</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An aversion to water, as a symptom of rabies;  the disease of rabies itself.