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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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    therefore feldom induced but by infection from a rabid animalf, yet, perhaps, it is not im- poffible, that it may arifefrom internal caufeg and without communication. It is affirmed, that in Jamaica the difeafe has not appeared among dogs for near fifty years pan: ; and that in the Ifland of Antigua it is altogether unknown. If it was induced by a warm climate alone, in what part of the world are we to look for greater heat ? We are likewife allured that the animal abounds in Jamaica, even more than in Great Britain. The Negro prides himfelf as much in his dog as any fportfman does in England; and is al- lowed to indulge himfelf in this refpec~ts. It may be afked, where have we a ftronger proof of its not ariiing fpontaneoufly in the animal, than from this circumftance ? Yet fuch a conclulion muft not be haftily drawn. In what manner its firffc appearance took placea feems equally as obfcure as the tint origin of other infectious fpecific difeafes. How did the fmall-pox firft arife ? The anfwer is difficult. f Both climate and diet greatly influence animal life and health, as we fhall fliew hereafter. s Vide Tranfadtions of a Society for the improvement of medical and chirurgical knowledge.