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.

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    phatics, and in the axilla, of the the inocu^ lated arm; 01% if it be in the Leg,J in the courfeof the thigh, and in the groin,,where we know lymphatics, and lymphatic glands lie. The fame may be cbferved of the ve- nereal difeafe; and the fame remark has been noted in the abforption of the poifon from rabid animals* Though this conftantly precedes the fe- brile fymptoms in the one, or the peculiar fymptoms that conftitute the other relative difeafes, yet, were we to make our experi- ment now, it would not be deciiive; it would not prevent the progrefs of the ma- lady : for, enough of the poifon having got beyond the reach of the knife, to propagate the refpective difeafe, our taking away what might remain in the part where it was firft inferted, wouid not anfwer the end in view. Our experiment here would fail, and it would prove nothing. But when this is done at an early time, when, from the in- flamed appearance of the little fear, we might