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Remarks on hydrophobia, or, The disease produced by the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal / by Robert Hamilton, M.D. member of the Royal College of Physicians, London; of the Royal Medical and Physical Societies, Edinburgh, of the Medical Society, London; and late physician to the Army. In two volumes.

  • Robert Hamilton
Date:
1798
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Credit: Remarks on hydrophobia, or, The disease produced by the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal / by Robert Hamilton, M.D. member of the Royal College of Physicians, London; of the Royal Medical and Physical Societies, Edinburgh, of the Medical Society, London; and late physician to the Army. In two volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    [ * ] weconflder that the difeafe has in no inftance, after Hydrophobia is fully eftablimed, admit- ted of a cure. Its frequency may be attributed to two caufes; the one, indeed, is the confe- quence of the other: firft, the fondnefs we ex- prefs for the dog, which brings him fo often into our company; and fecondly, the great multiplication of the animal. His utility in focial life, and the gratitude we bear him, for his attachment, in forfaking his own tribe to follow our deftiny, will in fome meafure explain this. Thoufands, as is too well known, are bred more for amufeme'nt than for advantage to their owners. A good houfe-dog in former days was the only fpecies to be found in a farmer's yard; or a common cur at a cottage door. Thefe were kept for the protection of the fa- mily: nor does it appear that the breed was either greatly multiplied or fed, in this coun- try at leaft, for mere paftime. It is different at prefent; every labourer and mechanic has not only his dog, but perhaps two or three. The opulent farmer and the man of landed property, feveral brace. It is not uncommon to fee even a dozen or more of fporting dogs in a farm houfe. * a / n ,Were . ,, ' 9