Local Government Board inquiry into Pasteur's anti-rabies therapy: notebook as Secretary

Notebook kept by Horsley in Paris and its vicinity as Secretary of the Local Government Board's commission of inquiry into the anti-rabies therapy of Louis Pasteur. Horsley was accompanied in Paris by John Burdon-Sanderson, Thomas Lauder Brunton, and, briefly, by Sir Henry Roscoe. The notes record details of cases of dog bites treated by inoculation, with pen and ink drawings of the sites of lesions. Inscription on front cover, 'Victor Horsley, The Brown Institution ... Notes taken in France as Sec. of Hydrophobia Commission.'

April-May 1886

1 volume 1 volume: 192 × 154 mm., iii, 89 ff. (75-89 blank).

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).