A case of hydrophobia ... Read May 1807 / [Alexander Marcet].

  • Marcet, Alexander, 1770-1822
Date:
1809
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Credit: A case of hydrophobia ... Read May 1807 / [Alexander Marcet]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A CASE OP HYDROPHOBIA, < WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE APPEARANCES AFTER DEATH. COMMUNICATED \ - / BY ALEXANDER MARCET, M. D. F. R. S. ONE OP THE PHYSICIANS TO GOY’s HOSPITAL. IN offering to the Society a case of hydrophobia, I am aware that similar narratives, uncommon as the disease may comparatively be, are not unfrequently to be found in medical writings. The pathology of this malady however, still continues enveloped in the greatest obscurity, and it is only by mul- * tiplying observations, and by diligently collecting descriptions of the disease, that we can hope to throw some light on its nature. If, therefore, on comparing the account which I am about to give, B