An Essay On The Bite Of A Mad Dog

Excerpt from Essay on the Bite of a Mad Dog Doetor mead's fyflem, that the nets vous fluid is chiefly afieeled in this dill cafe, has been called in quefiion, and the nerves themfelves have been fixed uponras the feat of this diflemper, and all the fymptoms accounted for hythe fpafmodic contraetions of the nerves. I haverinduilriouily avoided all unprofit able controverfies, which in theart of medicine, as in all other arts and {ci ences, tend more to divide than to re concile and convince the difputants. It probably may be in this safe, as in many others, that by yielding and mak ing iome allowances on each fide, truth would be eafier' afcertalned than, by villing through motives of pride and ob'fiinacy. T he wife father of phylic has told us*, That'our m: 25 ex and oar fife hut/hart. Why {hould we then walle in trifling and needlela altercations the little time We have to run over the vail field of medicine? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.