Remarks on the means of obviating the fatal effects of the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal : with observations on the method of cure when hydrophobia occurs :and the opinion relative to worming of dogs refuted : illustrated by examples / by R. Hamilton, M.D.

  • Hamilton, Robert, 1721-1793.
Date:
MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
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Credit: Remarks on the means of obviating the fatal effects of the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal : with observations on the method of cure when hydrophobia occurs :and the opinion relative to worming of dogs refuted : illustrated by examples / by R. Hamilton, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Sometimes it happens that the part wounded is unfavourable for extirpation; nay, for being even long kept open. This will be found the cafe when either the lips, or parts about the face are bit. In any of thefe, long running fores prove very trouble- fome; and are fuch as few people will fub- mit to. Extirpation of part of either the upper or under lip, has likewife many other inconveniencies: a fear muft remain alto- gether unfeemly, rendering the countenance extremely difagreeable. This, unluckily, happened to be the part where the bite was inflidted in a late cafe, alluded to in the beginning of this effay. Cauftics, however, were applied, and other proper means ufed, foon after it was received, by a gentleman learned and eminent in the medical world, then called to the patient's affiftance. That they did not fucceed, might in part arife from the cauflic Hot being applied to every part of the wound;