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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    persed, of high moment to the happiness of persons bitten; to their friends, and to the public at large, although the existing Hydropho- bia may baffle the medical art. The author has frequently been consulted by patients under the distressing apprehensions of being bitten by a mad dog, or cat; and although, from accurate enquiries into all circumstances, he has been in his own mind thoroughly satisfied that the animal was not mad, yet he rarely could satisfy his patients of such material fact. To pa- tients unsatisfied, he acknowledges he has pre- scribed remedies, (even to the excision of the bitten part,) and enjoined a perseverance in them till the patient’s fears subsided. The author, when failing to convince his patients that their fears are unjustly excited, pre- fers the cheering them with assurance of their security, and prescribing a treatment to amuse them, and dissipate gradually their fears, to leaving them, (by doing nothing for them,) a prey to the deceitful Arts of Quackery, an ex- pedient