Miscellaneous observations on canine and spontaneous hydrophobia : to which is prefixed, the History of a case of hydrophobia, occurring twelve years after the bite of a supposed mad dog / by Samuel Argent Bardsley.
- Bardley, Samuel Argent, 1764-1851.
- Date:
- [1796]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Miscellaneous observations on canine and spontaneous hydrophobia : to which is prefixed, the History of a case of hydrophobia, occurring twelve years after the bite of a supposed mad dog / by Samuel Argent Bardsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I Canine Spontaneous Hydrophobia. order, therefore, to appretiate the credit due ] to thefe various hiftories, and to the opinions derived from them, I ihall only cite the mo ft refpe&able authorities; and, indeed, chiefly confine my attention to thofe cafes, which have been fubjeded to the infpedion of their re- fpedive relaters. I proceed, therefore, to con^ fider, firff, the hiftories and facts that have been adduced in favour of the opinion, that the canine poifon has lain dormant for a great length of time, and afterwards been excited into adion: Secondly, thofe cafes, which have been attributed to the contad of the faliva of a rabid animal with the furface of the fkin; or to its application, internally as well as externally, by any other mode than the intervention of a bite : Thirdly, fuch inflances of the difeafe, as have been faid to have arifen fpontaneoufly, * or, at leaf!, whofe origin * I have adopted the term ct Spontaneous Hydrophobia./3 in conformity with the ufage of the generality of medical writers. But I wilh it to be underftood In a fenfe dif¬ ferent from that, in which it is commonly ufed. For,, notwithflanding all the ufual fymptoms of canine madnefss have arifen in many cafes, without the intervention of the poifon of a rabid animal, I do not conceive, in fuck inflances, any fpccific poifon to have been generated' in the habit—The canine virus operates, not only as a ftimu- ius on the nerves, but alfo appears to produce a fpe^ifc action](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30794687_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
