On the nature and treatment of tetanus & hydrophobia : with some observations on a natural classification of diseases in general / by Robert Reid, M.D.

  • Reid, Robert, active 1817.
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1817
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Credit: On the nature and treatment of tetanus & hydrophobia : with some observations on a natural classification of diseases in general / by Robert Reid, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of a vegetable poison, extremely analogous, both in synaptoms and appearances after death, to Hydrophobia. When the poison of Hydrophobia, has been communicated to the human species, by the bite of an animal; it appears like the infection of small-pox, secundary in its operation. It lies concealed, until by an assimilatory process, it takes on a na- ture capable of affecting the human frame. Although the infection is generally con- veyed to the system, by means of a bite, yet several instances of this disease, having been caused by the saliva of a rabid ani- mal, where no wound had been inflicted, may be seen in Dr. Hamilton's, treatise on this disease. There is an iioportant circunistance with respect to the animals, which are capable of communicating the disease, by the bite. In animals of the dog and cat kind, the skin is not endowed with the capability of throwr