Dissertatio medica inauguralis, De hydrophobia : quam, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri, D. Georgii Baird, SS.T.P. Academiae Edinburgenae praefecti, necnon amplissimi Senatus Academici consensu, et nobilissimae Facultatis Medicae decreto, pro gradu doctoris, summisque in medicina honoribus ac privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis, eruditorum examini subjicit Joannes Ashburner, ex insula Bombaii, Acad. Regal. Hibern. necnon Colleg. Regal. Chururg. Londin. soc. et Societ. Med. in Acad. Eblan. soc. honor.
- John Ashburner
- Date:
- 1816
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Credit: Dissertatio medica inauguralis, De hydrophobia : quam, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri, D. Georgii Baird, SS.T.P. Academiae Edinburgenae praefecti, necnon amplissimi Senatus Academici consensu, et nobilissimae Facultatis Medicae decreto, pro gradu doctoris, summisque in medicina honoribus ac privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis, eruditorum examini subjicit Joannes Ashburner, ex insula Bombaii, Acad. Regal. Hibern. necnon Colleg. Regal. Chururg. Londin. soc. et Societ. Med. in Acad. Eblan. soc. honor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tas non erat; aliquando violentus, saepe cau- tus, aut tantum morosus. In porcis nonnunquam, sensibilitas eodem modo esse maxime turbata quo in corpore hu- mano apparet; omnia autem signa, quae con- juncte Pathognomonica haberi possunt, una specie nonvidentur designata; symptomata, ut sese exhibent, omnibus in animalibus huie nem veniamus facere videtur. Dr Rush, autem, in libro dicto, Medical Inquiries and Observations, haec verba habet: * In the London Medical Journal for the months * of April, May and June 1784«, I find the following ac- ' count published by Dr de Mathiis^ physician to the king f of Naples' army: During his residence in Calabria <( (the Doctor tel]s us), that having one day caught a viper in the fields, he had occasion, in his way home^ to pass by a farm-yard, where he saw a dog chained, that was said to be mad. He ofFered water to this dog, a upon which he immediately fell into convulsions. Re- collecting the viper, he was tempted to try its effects by applying it to the dog's throat. This was accord- « ingly done, and the consequences were, the head of the dog swelled, the symptoms of the Hydrophobia ceased^ and the animal recovered.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21451667_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
