An essay on the bite of a mad dog, in which the claim to infallibility of the principal preservative remedies against the hydrophobia is examined / by John Berkenhout, M.D.

  • Berkenhout, John, 1730?-1791.
Date:
1783
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    pqfttas, Angina vacatur; and in aphorifm 818, he fays,—Si convuljionum caufa qua- cunque mufados pharingis laryngefve oc- cupaverity oritur fubita fi/jf'ocativa an- gina. 8. As I am here writing particularly to medical readers, it is unneceflary to tranflate the above quotation.. Such read- ers, after comparing thefe definitions with the fymptoms of the hydrophobia, as it is called, will, I believe, acknowledge their furprife, that Boerhaave fhould not rather have clafTed it as a fpecies of angina than of mania. Later nofologifts feem equally un- fortunate in point of arrangement. In the fyftem of the celebrated Sauvages, we find Hydrophobia in the clafs Vefanicz, and order Morofitates. His definition of the clafs is, error in i?naginatio?ie, appetitu, vel juditio of the order, cupiditates aut averjiones depravatce. Now, I appeal, not to fyftematic writers, but to thofe who have attended patients fufFering under this dreadful diftemper; and I requefl them to recoiled, whether erroneous imagina- tion, appetite, or judgment, or depraved defires or averfions, were among the fymp- toms