Remarks on the means of obviating the fatal effects of the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal : with observations on the method of cure when hydrophobia occurs :and the opinion relative to worming of dogs refuted : illustrated by examples / by R. Hamilton, M.D.

  • Hamilton, Robert, 1721-1793.
Date:
MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
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Credit: Remarks on the means of obviating the fatal effects of the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal : with observations on the method of cure when hydrophobia occurs :and the opinion relative to worming of dogs refuted : illustrated by examples / by R. Hamilton, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f *S7 I henceforth oppofition muft ceafe, and truth becomes triumphant; for to this determin- ation all muft yield. This is the fame, whether the thing to be inveftigated, on which the conteft may turn, be a matter of great, or a matter of fmall moment, as happens in the prefent. To come, then, to the point. Dr. James^ and others, doubted the utility of the prac* tice mentioned at the beginning of this ar* tide ^ but they produced no experiments to oppofe the error, and confirm the juftnefs of their doubts. The writer of this article doubted likewife, from the apparent abfur- dity of the thing, and the difproportibn between the caufe and the effedt faid to be produced. He had, however^ no experi- ment then, on which he could abfolutely reft; his proofs, therefore,7 were built on reafoning—were prefumptive only—not po- fitive. But, not altogether fatisfied with this, he w'fhed to trace it farther, and ar- rive, if poffible, at certainty. He has at L 1 length