A treatise explaining the impossibility of the disease termed hydrophobia; being caused by the bite of any rabid animal / [William Maryan].

  • Maryan, William.
Date:
1809
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Credit: A treatise explaining the impossibility of the disease termed hydrophobia; being caused by the bite of any rabid animal / [William Maryan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    o IV % world called Europe; but since the introduction of printing, the progress of the Arts, and the in¬ crease of learning in this quarter of the globe, that disease has been abolished; and, I have no hesitation in declaring it to be my firm belief that when the nature of the disease, to which I am now calling the attention of the world, be¬ comes more generally understood, and more fully investigated, it will be found to possess as little foundation as that above alluded to. Were any person, who had been bitten by a supposed rabid animal, to confine that animal during its malady; watch the progress of the disease; and, after death, observe the ap¬ pearances ; he would be amply recompensed, by receiving a proof of the fallacy of those dreadful opinions so generally, yet so erroneously, received by almost every one from childhood to t