Volume 1

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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    [ 1° ] yet I am inclined to think fevcral others efcaped by attending to the directions incul- cated in thofe pages. It is true, we have no abfolute proof whether the poifon would have taken effect, but by acting as if we were cer- tain of the fact we infure fafety; while we have the double advantage of removing both apprehenfion and danger. The cows, oxen, &c. that were bitten in this neighbourhood became affected and died. Several perfons fuffered in their fortunes, and an alarm for their own fafety excited much mnealinefs throughout the country. This produced at that time public meetings among the people, to deliberate on the heft meafures to be purfued to prevent future mifchief; the refult of which was a petition to parliament. It was refolved to folicit the interference of government, in order to impofe a tax on all who kept thefe animals. The propofal, however, at that time met with no encourage- ment from the legiflaturek. The principle on which the difcuffion turned, was to leiTen the number k A tax has fince been laid on dogs; but it appears to fee more a tax of revenue than of policy, or a preventative of the frequency of hydrophobia. It feems too fmall to anfwer this end; few will deltroy their dogs, or keep a lefs number en. that account.