Observations on hydrophobia : produced by the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal. With an examination of the various theories and methods of cure, existing at the present day, and an inquiry into the merit of specific remedies. Also a method of treatment best adapted to the brute creation. In a series of letters to a friend. /
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Plymouth, MA :
Joseph Avery,
1812.
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Table of Contents:
- Introductory
- Symptoms distinctive of madness in dogs
- Of the remote causes of rabies in the canine species
- Of the variety in the period which intervenes between the bite, and access of rabid hydrophobia
- History of the hymptoms distinctive of the disease in the human species
- Observations relative to the canine poison, and its action on the human species
- Theory of the disease
- Collection of cases
- Examination of specific remedies and of the various means of prevention and cure
- Method of prevention and cure
- Of those remedies, which, secondly, are intended to counteract or overcome the effects of the poison after the disease has actually appeared
- Method of treatment best adapted to the brute creation