On hydrophobia, its prevention, and cure. With a dissertation on canine madness: illustrated with cases / By Benjamin Moseley.

  • Moseley, Benjamin, 1742-1819
Date:
1808
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    many; and have cured them. That Is, the Hydrophobia has been prevented; and by the methods chiefly explained—circumstances and constitutions varying—in the following Papers. —I have now several under my care. Here I observe, that every person, or animal, bitten by a Mad Hog, may not always be sus¬ ceptible of the infection. It is the same in re¬ spect to Small Pox virus. The habit may be in a state not to receive it. I have known men, cats, dogs, hogs, and sheep, bitten by Mad Hogs, where no remedies whatever have been used, remain perfectly well; when persons and animals, bitten at the same time, by the same Dogs, have died mad. This practical fact, denounces the dangerous opinion, that Hogs are often supposed to be mad, when they are not. This accounts also, for the credit, which the most absurd composi¬ tions have acquired for curing the infection of Canine Madness, where it never existed. With these preliminary observations, and without comment, the following Essays are again offered to the Publlck; the last with some important additions.