An essay on the disease produced by the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal / by James Mease. With a preface and appendix by J. C. Lettsom.

  • Mease, James, 1771-1846.
Date:
1793
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Credit: An essay on the disease produced by the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal / by James Mease. With a preface and appendix by J. C. Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER. f 'HE following EfTay was tranfmitted to X me by my efteemed friend, Dr. Rush, with permiflion from the Author, a young gentleman of abilities that promife to do equal honour to medicine and to his country, to dif- pofe of his performance in any manner I might deem moft conducive to public good. The great importance of the fubjeCt of dif- cuflion, and the ingenious and practical man- ner in which the author has elucidated it, induce me to think it worthy of rcpublication. Many practitioners are well acquainted with the interefling cafes communicated by Dr. Shad well, which appear to have been cured by the internal and external ufe of fweet oil. But in order to con- centrate