A case of hydrophobia : commonly called canine madness, from the bite of a mad dog, successfully treated / by Thomas Arnold.

  • Arnold, Thomas, 1742-1816.
Date:
1793
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Credit: A case of hydrophobia : commonly called canine madness, from the bite of a mad dog, successfully treated / by Thomas Arnold. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ter when only half a year old, and the former at the age of eight years ; that she had entirely escaped the chin- cough ; that she was of a good com- plexion, neither pale nor very florid ; small made, but, though not gross, had never been disposed to be lean ; that she had never been subje6l to any kind of fits, excepting that between the age of five and eight weeks she had been much afflicted with wind in her bow- els, and green griping stools, during the continuance of which complaints she used to have, almost daily, one or more of those convulsive fits, so com- mon to children of that age, and un- der those circumstances; and that about a year ago, in consequence of being beaten, and violently ill-treated by one of her companions, she was so much affected as to be for a short time