An address to the professors of physic and surgery, in the cities of London and Westminster, proposing the institution of a society for investigating the cause, symptoms, and cure of the hydrophobia.

  • Hyde, Samuel, 1851-1900.
Date:
1807
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Credit: An address to the professors of physic and surgery, in the cities of London and Westminster, proposing the institution of a society for investigating the cause, symptoms, and cure of the hydrophobia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    > stem the tide of prejudice and fashion, strongly flowing in favour of never-failing preventatives and cures, but give more opportunities to intro- duce the trial of such remedies as may be thought by the society worthy experiment. In the year 1774, the late justly eminent Dr. Fothergill, with that benevolence which formed a prominent trait in his character, pub- lished directions for the treatment of persons bitten by mad animals. In the publication he exhorts those under whose care the unfortunate patient may fall, to note every incident attend- ing the progress of the disease, and whether they pursue the directions he has laid down, or pursued a mode in their opinion more eligible, to com- municate the event to the public.—“ By this me- thod,” the Doctor adds, “ the field of conjecture would be contracted, and our successors directed to new objects of investigation.” The advice and deduction are becoming the character of him who published them ; but the ' benefits hoped to arise from Dr. Fothergill’s re- commendation,