Doubts of hydrophobia, as a specific disease, to be communicated by the bite of a dog; with experiments on the supposed virus generated in that animal, during the complaint termed madness ... / By Robert White.

  • White, Robert.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Doubts of hydrophobia, as a specific disease, to be communicated by the bite of a dog; with experiments on the supposed virus generated in that animal, during the complaint termed madness ... / By Robert White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the learned, that occasionally creep forth, and require only to be a little looked into to be exploded.* To many in Brighton, perhaps, it will appear extraordinary that I, a young prac¬ titioner, should step forward to the ff breach/s when others, f<r older in practice, abler than myself/' have not stirred a foot in advance. To those who may possess such a feeling, I plead a matter of local necessity; a loud, a lengthened call for something to be done by somebody, for the common interests of all. As the opinions of an impartial and attentive journalist, the following paragraph, which appeared in connexion with the sub¬ ject of this work in the Brighton Herald of c \ June 4th last, will go farther to make that local necessity manifest, than whole volumes from myself. There is no town in this kingdom,—at least, so the extraordinary precautions taken * That able barrister, Mr. Scarlett, in a late trial, mentioned a law in existence, that for 150 years had been improperly construed.—Why are there not mazes in physic as well as law?