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Remarks on hydrophobia, or, The disease produced by the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal / by Robert Hamilton, M.D. member of the Royal College of Physicians, London; of the Royal Medical and Physical Societies, Edinburgh, of the Medical Society, London; and late physician to the Army. In two volumes.

  • Hamilton, Robert, 1749-1830.
Date:
1798
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Credit: Remarks on hydrophobia, or, The disease produced by the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal / by Robert Hamilton, M.D. member of the Royal College of Physicians, London; of the Royal Medical and Physical Societies, Edinburgh, of the Medical Society, London; and late physician to the Army. In two volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rate. As each attracts the other from the fluids, a great change is produced in them. If this new production be of a nature infoluble in the fluids, its action is on the part where it was firfl: generated, inducing inflammation there, and producing pus. If it mould happen ]ffrw- epsx, under different circumftances, to be of a foluble nature, it is then diffufed through the mafs, and may remain there a long time with- out creating any fpecific effect. The time will be longer or fhorter, or proportioned to its folu- bility. On this foundation he would explain, why the difeafe appears more readily after any fevere agitation of mind, fuch as fear, anger, &c. for the union which it had with the fluids in ge- ;/z<?ral, is deftroyed in this act j and the poifon be- ing loofened from this bond, exerts its force on the machine. In affuming caujiicity as a princi- pj&, he attempts, on the fame grounds, to ac- count for the fpeedier cicatrifation of a rabid, beyond a fimple and unpoifoned wound. Its caufticity, or (limulant nature, caufmg a larger difcharge of gluten from the ferous veflels, on which depends the healing procefs. A perverfion of the gaftric juice, one of the mod active fluids formed by animal fecretion, the ftagnation of inteftinal feculencies, the pro- cefs of haftcning putrefaction both from the qua- lity