An essay on the bite of a mad dog : with observations on John Hunter's treatment of the case of Master R---- and also a recital of the successful treatment of two cases / by Jessé Foot, Surgeon.

  • Jesse Foot
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1788
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Credit: An essay on the bite of a mad dog : with observations on John Hunter's treatment of the case of Master R---- and also a recital of the successful treatment of two cases / by Jessé Foot, Surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hieronymus Mercurialis tells us, that Oribefius directs a method of afcertaining, whether a fufpedted dog be mad or not, by pounding of wallnuts, and applying them to the wound inflidled by a dog, and then throwing them for food to cocks and hens, if they eat them, and the dog be mad, they will die inftantly*. * T 9 r ** - r* .r* • ... . iJJ >1 . |* l i i > % 4 » x ■ #• * J * a +* * * We alfo learn from the fame author, aii experiment that hath fince been confirmed by modern authors, although not told in that candid manner that it ought to have been. It was, that fome cahfed pieces of bread to be rubbed on a fufpedfed wound; and offered them to dogs in common ; if the dogs eat the bread, the bite was not poifonous, but if the dogs would not eat the bread, it was a figii that the bite was poifonous. Some extracted blood from the wound, aud made fuch an experiment by mixing it with bran. * Hieronym. Mercur. Cap. xv. iJe Rabie. Oribefius, apud Paulum, lib. 5, cap. 3. rr ' ' Apuleius
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