A course of lectures on hydrophobia : its history, pathology, and treatment ; compiled from the manuscript notes of the late Dr. T.S. Holland ; delivered in the theatre of the North Charitable Infirmary and City of Cork General Hospital / by T.C. Shinkwin.

  • Shinkwin, Thomas Crofts.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1899]
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Credit: A course of lectures on hydrophobia : its history, pathology, and treatment ; compiled from the manuscript notes of the late Dr. T.S. Holland ; delivered in the theatre of the North Charitable Infirmary and City of Cork General Hospital / by T.C. Shinkwin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with mania or angina, under which name Hippocrates treated of all diseases in which delirium was a prominent symptom, when he observed,* phrenitici parum bibunt, ex levibus strepitibus facile irritantur ac percelluntur, tremuli sunt. After referring to this and other pas- sages that are mentioned in the note, M. St. Martm, among others, concludes that Hippocrates had never seen a case of hydrophobia, or if so, he confounded it with ni'inia. Cojlius Aurelianus, whose works are the most ancient we possess, in which the word vSpotpopta is used, states that Democritus, who lived about-100 years B.C., described the seat and treatment of hydrophobia, and gave his opinions concerning it; and as Dr. Hecker, in his Re- searches into the History of Hydrophobia, observes, the works of Democritus must have existed at the time of Aurelius, or at least in that of Soranus, who lived under the Emperors Trajan and Adrian, and was Aurelius' pre- decessor in the methodical school, and this Soranus pro- bably completed the eight books that have come down to us out of Democritus' works. The nervous system was, in the opinion of Democritus, the seat of the disease, and he was led to this conclusion from the phenomena of con- vulsions and priapism occurring in it. The passage is-^ Equidem Democritus quum de cmprosthotanicis diceret, nervos (pati?) incjuit, conjiciens hoc cx corporis conduc- tione atque ventri tentiginein another place, he even specifies that it is an inllainmation of the nerves: Ait ♦ The Greek of this passage is — viz., 01 (pptviTixoy fipiiYVTrornt, ^oOov KfiGnTrro/ttvol, rponiodtfQ. ^' I'hroni- tics'(probably including all cases in whicli fever, accom- panied by dolirium, formed a prominent symptom)] drmk little, are affected by noise, are tremulous. 'Fn-TrocpHro. npoyvmoTiKov /3i/3.