An inaugural dissertation on the disease produced by the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees and medical facutly of the University of Pennsylvania, on the eleventh day of May, 1792, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by James Mease, A.M. of Philadelphia.

James Mease

Date:: MDCCXCII [1792]

Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the disease produced by the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees and medical facutly of the University of Pennsylvania, on the eleventh day of May, 1792, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by James Mease, A.M. of Philadelphia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ 3* ] cafe, liquids of all kinds were fwallowed freely. The third perfon, whofe cafe is related by Dr. Dick- fon *, alfo drank feveral cups of tea in the latter end of the difeafe. The public papers -f- lad year, gave us an account of a fervant in one of the pub- lic inn's near London, who died of this difeafe ; and who, to the adoniflrment of the attending medical faculty, drank in the progrefs of his complaint, freely and without the lead difcompofure, great quantities of liquids. If, therefore, the averfion from drinking, mod commonly fhewn by thofe perfons who labour under the effects of the canine poifon, were owing to the poifon fimply, and fome fpecific change wrought on the fydem, the abfence of the affection of the throat, entirely in fome cafes, and its abate- ment in others, ought not to make the lead altera- tion in this generally fuppofedpathognomonic fymp- tom; for the poifon being dill in the fydem, its ef- fects fiiould invariably and condantly continue. But the direct contrary is obferved to take place. How then can this fpecific dread be accounted an univcrfal caufe ? But * Med. Obf. and Inq. Vol. III. p. 368. f London Paper; Times Novemb. 30, 179°- Dunhp's Ame- rican Advcrtifcr, January 1791.

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