bellon

Updated: May 2, 2025

Thus also in the bellon, or colica saturnina, the patients are said to bite their own flesh, and dogs in this disease to bite up the ground they lie upon. It is probable that the great endeavours to bite in mad dogs, and the violence of other mad animals, is owing to the same cause.

Erasmus Darwin - Zoonomia, Vol. I: Or, the Laws of Organic Life