Hydrophobia in dogs and other animals : and the sanitary precautions against its transmission to the human race.

  • Russel, Charles P.
Date:
[1874?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hydrophobia in dogs and other animals : and the sanitary precautions against its transmission to the human race. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    sively upon a thorough cauterization of the wound with nitrate of silver. With this simple treatment he was successful in over 400 instances in the human subject, and in innumerable cases of dogs; in his own person, moreover, as he was frequently bitten by rabid dogs, and once severely by a mad cat. Finally, all rabid animals, after death, should be covered with quickhme, and buried at a good depth below the surface of the ground, or, better still, should undergo cremation. They should never, as is frequently done, be thrown into ditches, ponds or streams. Every substance which they have been likely to contaminate should, be consigned to the flames or soaked in some powerful disinfectant. Respectfully submitted, CHAS. P. RUSSEL, M.D., Sanitary Inspector. \
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