The abolition of zymotic diseases and of other similar enemies of mankind / by Sir Thomas Watson.

  • Watson, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1882.
Date:
1879
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Credit: The abolition of zymotic diseases and of other similar enemies of mankind / by Sir Thomas Watson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    attacked with rabies seven or eight days after- wards. Mr. Oilman, of Highgate, in a Httle pamphlet on Hydrophobia, quotes an instance from Dr. Perceval, in which a mad dog licked the face of a sleeping man, near his mouth, and the man died of hydrophobia, although the strictest search failed to discover the smallest scratch or abrasion' on any part of his skin. These facts, if authentic, settle the question; unless, indeed the lips of those who perished happened to have been chapped or abraded. It is a fearful question whether the saliva of a human being afflicted with hydrophobia is capable of inoculating another human being with the same disease. Mr. Youatt says it is, that the disease has undoubtedly been so pro- duced. If this be so, the fact should teach us— not to desert or neglect these unhappy patients, still less to murder them by smothering, or by bleedincr them to death—but to minister to their wants with certain precautions ; so as not to