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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    dustrious and well-informed individuals, sepa- rately engaged in the same studies? Impressed with the possibility of such event, and sensible that no means should be left untried, which affords the most distant prospect of exterminating the Hydro- phobia, the author, with great respect, submits to the consideration of those to whom this paper is addressed, the instituting a Society, for the sole purpose of investigating the cause and symptoms of the Hydrophobia, originating from the bite of mad animals, and for discovering preventative remedies, and a cure in the actual existence of the disease. From a society, instituted for such purposes., formed of gentlemen of known abilities, the world might reasonably expect every informa- tion that is allotted to the confined abilities of man to obtain; and although the society should not meet with success equal to the wishes of the members, yet, from a studious investigation of the subjects of the institution, benefits may arise productive of essential service to the com- munity ; information may be obtained and dis- persed, t