Remarks on the means of obviating the fatal effects of the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal : with observations on the method of cure when hydrophobia occurs : and the opinion relative to worming of dogs refuted : illustrated by examples / by R. Hamilton, M.D.

  • Hamilton, Robert, 1721-1793.
Date:
MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
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Credit: Remarks on the means of obviating the fatal effects of the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal : with observations on the method of cure when hydrophobia occurs : and the opinion relative to worming of dogs refuted : illustrated by examples / by R. Hamilton, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Here, indeed, theyy not he, iriiift judge; and he trufts, he fhall not be found, in the following pages,; to have tranfgreffed in this refpec~fc» He has collected obfervations from the works of authors both antient and modern, and endea- voured, as far as he was able, to diftinguifh between what could b& fupported on the grounds of ra- tional induction, and what had only (as appeared to him) fuperftition and credulity to lean on. This eflay is not offered to the ptiblic as perfecl:. Far from it. The author is too confcious of its imperfection. Yet he hopes it will be found to contain, at leaft, an b out-