A course of lectures on hydrophobia : its history, pathology, and treatment / compiled from manuscript notes of the late Dr. T.S. Holland ; delivered in the theatre of the North Charitable Infirmary and City of Cork General Hospital by T.C. Shinkwin.

  • Holland, Thomas S.
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[1865]
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Credit: A course of lectures on hydrophobia : its history, pathology, and treatment / compiled from manuscript notes of the late Dr. T.S. Holland ; delivered in the theatre of the North Charitable Infirmary and City of Cork General Hospital by T.C. Shinkwin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    cases as have not hitherto been recorded in any of the well- known anil easily accessible inonograplis, or in articles, m ilietionaries, cyclopa?dias, &c, on this subject, thereby avoidin'!; the error made by most authors on hydro- phobia—namely, the repetition of observations that have been handed down from one to the other without adding to them by original observations or new researches. J)r. Heyfelder in his article, observes, that a bull was bitten by a mad fox, became affected with the disease, and died. Dr. Molitor records a case of madness that occurred in a five months’ old calf, who was bitten three weeks before by a mad cat, but this cannot be considered as a true ex- ample, as the calf is said to have died fourteen days after the commencement of the symptoms, hjxamples of the disease which have been transmitted from the dog to horses are also on record. Prof. Derndt of Greisswald has seen transmitted hydro- phobia once in the horse, twice in sheep, four times in pigs, and repeatedly in oxen. Dr. Jankowich reports two cases of madness in hor.ses caused by the bite of a dog. A groat number of cases occurred in July, 182fi, at Seafield, where sixty cows with ten calves, and in the town of Seba eleven other cows—in all eighty-one heads of horned cattle—died of madness resulting from the bites of two mad dogs. Dr, Stratton reports that a m;ul fox bit two pigs who both died of the disease. Mead gives the case of a young man, acod 18, who was bitten on the b.xck of the hand by a mad fox that had been previously bitten by a mad dog. Dayard mentions that a mad dog had bitten eight cows.