CHAPTER XVI. 



DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 



RABIES, COMPRESSION OF THE 

 EPILEPSY, BRAIN, 



APOPLEXY, HYDROCEPHALUS, 



VERTIGO, TURNSIDE, 



CHOREA, MENINGITIS, , 



PARALYSIS, DEMENTIA, 



CONCUSSION OF NOSTOMANIA, 



THE BRAIN, NEURALGIA.' 



RABIES. 



This disease may be truly designated the scourge of the 

 canine race ; horrible in its nature, alike terribly fatal to 

 man and beast. As such it was recognised centuries ago, 

 and the alarm engendered appears to have been as great 

 then as in the present day. Among the ancient Greeks 

 recipes both for the bite of a rabid dog and the flesh of one 

 affected with rabies, were numerous and singular. 



Much, but far from enough, has been written of late years 

 concerning this disease ; much that is sensible, and no small 

 proportion that is calculated to do harm. Rewards have 

 been offered for the discovery of a cure, but the probability 

 of their ever being claimed is extremely dubious — ^^espe- 

 cially so Idng as spurious hydrophobia and various phases 

 of hysteria are indiscriminately mixed up and mistaken for 

 the real malady. 



Pasteur's alleged prophylactic still remains a controversial 

 question ; many unfortunate calamities have resulted from 

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