CHAPTER XVL 
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.‘ 
NEURITIS. 
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 todo 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 long 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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