N. Starokotlitsky. A case of hysteria feigning canine rabies. — Medical newspaper. 1910, № 11 and № 12

Hysteria, of which it is sometimes said that it can simulate any kind of nervous disease, usually simulates it with the omission of some and, moreover, not unimportant symptoms. In the case described by the author, which was at first taken for canine rabies, there were no frightening or unpleasant hallucinations, no aversion to the sight of shiny objects and flowing water; pupils were constricted. The remaining symptoms, which gave the neurosis a resemblance to canine rabies, developed on the basis of the easy suggestibility of the hysterical patient. The reason was the contact of a scratched hand with the saliva of a rabid dog and the reading of some pamphlet on canine rabies. The author explains in detail the neuropsychic origin of each symptom.