An essay on the bite of a mad dog, in which the claim to infallibility of the principal preservative remedies against the hydrophobia is examined / by John Berkenhout, M.D.

  • Berkenhout, John, 1730?-1791.
Date:
1783
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Credit: An essay on the bite of a mad dog, in which the claim to infallibility of the principal preservative remedies against the hydrophobia is examined / by John Berkenhout, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in that cafe there is little or no danger: on the fecond day it feems a mere fcratch, and on the third it is hardly vifible. But if, on the fecond morning, we obferve an inflamed circle fpreading from the wound, refembling that which furrounds the puncture when inoculation for the fmall- pox has taken effect, there is reafon to believe that part of the poifonous falha of the enraged animal is abforbed, and the confequent fymptoms may be rationally expected. 19. Meanwhile the patient takes the Ormfkirk, or fome other equally infallible medicine, is hurried away to the fea, in which he is two or three times dipped and half drowned; the wound heals, and all his apprehenfions vanim. Unhappily, this delufion alfo vanishes in the fpace of five or fix weeks, about which period he feels a * pain in the part where he was bit, gradually extending over the whole limb. He now recollects his misfortune. The horrible fiories he has heard rum upon his mind, and the hourly expectation of madnefs, * This fymptom is faid to have been firft mentioned by Salius.