For the bite of a mad dog.
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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[London?] :
[publisher not identified],
August 1747.
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| Item Description: | Michael Laird, bookseller, description: This rare medical handbill dated 1747 offers instructions for the preparation of a remedy for rabies which had "many years experience of its proving as an effectual cure to man and beast." The ingredients of the treatment included rue, garlic, "Venice treacle or mithridate," "scrapings of pewter," and "strong ale." The accompanying commentary notes that in order to be efficacious it must be taken within nine days of having been bitten. The provenance of the remedy is noted: "this recipe was taken out of Cathorp church, in Lincolnshire, the whole town being bitten with a mad-dog, and all that took this medicine did well, and the rest died mad." At the foot of the sheet is supplied a date: "reprinted in August, 1747." Despite the relatively small number of cases that occurred throughout the eighteenth century, rabies was feared greatly in Britain, and the hysteria and confusion surrounding the virus generated a considerable number of printed treatises. At end: "Re-printed in August 1747, after many years experience of its proving an effectual cure to man and beast." A recipe 'taken out of Cathorp Church in Lincolnshire, the whole town being bitten with a mad dog; ... '. Vertical chain lines; cut from a larger sheet? |
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| Physical Description: | 1 sheet (1 unnumbered pages) ; 14 x 16 cm (octavo cut down) |