The nature and treatment of rabies or hydrophobia.

  • Dolan, Thomas M. (Thomas Michael), 1844-1907.
Date:
1879
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Credit: The nature and treatment of rabies or hydrophobia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Great numbers of mad dogs were seen in Roscom- mon, Ireland : supposed to have appeared at Malta for the first time 1847 Epizootic of canine rabies in Northern Germany ; at Hamburg alone no fewer than 200 cases were ob- served amongst dogs. A mad wolf, in France, during a single day, bit forty-six persons and eighty- two head of cattle 1851 Rabies showed itself amongst dogs and a herd of deer to a serious extent in England. A dog in Berkshire bit twenty sheep 1856 An English bloodhound suddenly became mad, and bit several people, one man died of hydrophobia at Hong Kong 1857 Rabies prevalent in Northern Germany, France, Spain, and America 1860 Cases of hydrophobia amongst Native Chinese at Tientsing, near Pekin, North China 1861 Sir Samuel Baker informs us of an epizootic in part of Africa ... _ 1862 Great apprehensions entertained in Lancashire as to a severe outbreak of the* disease, and to such an ex- treme degree had the alarm attained, that upwards of 1000 dogs were destroyed in Liverpool alone ... 1864 The malady largely on the increase in London and France 1865 The disease assumed a formidable extension and virulency in England, especially in Lancashire. Thirty-six deaths registered from hydrophobia ... 1866 Rabies showed itself amongst the English dogs at Shanghai during the summer 1867 Many cases of rabies reported in Belgium 1868 Rabies noted in Paris. Early in this year cases of rabies began to be observed in Lancashire, from which it has spread as far as Scotland 1869 Prevalent in the North and West Riding ... ... 1870> The disease observed in Cheshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Outbreak amongst the Quorn and Albrighton hounds 1871 Outbreak amongst the Durham fox-hounds. Human death-rate, 56 Prevalence of the disease in various parts of England. Death-rate, 39 1872 Diminution of number of cases. Death-rate, 28 ... 1873 Rapid rise in the number of reported cases, sixty-one deaths registered. In Scotland from 1855 to 1874, only three cases of hydrophobia registered 1874