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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    There appears, then, to be but little doubt that the disease existed from the earliest ages, that man has been ever liable to this disease, and that its transmissibility to man appears to have been known as early as 400 years B.C. We must look to Ccelius Aurelianus for the names of those who wrote on this subject during the three hundred years between Aristotle and him, and we find mention of Artemidorus, Caridemus, and Andreas, who gave it the name of kwoXwooq ; he is further referred to by Aurelianus relative to the diagnosis of hydrophobia from pahtaphobia. Aurelianus and Galen mention the names of Gaius, Asclepiades, Themisius, and Heras Cappadocus, as having written between the time of Andreas and Celsus. There is also a certain Demetrius referred to who consi- dered that hydrophobia might become chronic. It is unnecessary to lengthen this section with a notice of those who have written upon this subject since the time of Culsus. Their opinions are only interesting in respect to the different treatments they recommended, their names will be found under the remarks on treatment. We, therefore, pass on to glance at the Arabian authors. Jn the year 800 of our era, Mesus, or, according to Prof. Seligmann of Vienna, Masawaih of Bagdad translated and commented on the works of the ancients, and to him suc- ceeded Ebn. Honain, surnamed the Interpreter. Rhazes, who lived in the tenth century, described a particular kind of hydrophobia which he had seen. Avincennus and Abenzoar lived and wrote on this subject in the eleventh century, while the second Masawaih, Ebenbiliir, and Serapion wrote in the twelfth, to the last of whom we owe ,the best account of the opinions and writings of the Arabs on this disease. The opinions of the Hebrews are to be found in their
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