Cases Of Hydrophobia

Author : George Hayward
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265552650
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Case of Hydrophobia (Classic Reprint) written by George Hayward and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-17 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Case of Hydrophobia There are probably some physicians who are still incredulous as to the existence of such a disease as hydrophobia. Many of them be lieve that the peculiar affection known by that name is merely a form of tetanus; that the symptoms are owing to the nature of the wound, the character of the parts injured and the state of the patient's system, and not to the presence of any morbid virus. They know that the bite of an animal often produces a punctured or lacerated wound; and as the hand is the part that is frequently bitten, a tendon, a fascia or a nervous filament may be the seat of the injury. There would seem, therefore, to be no good reason why tetanus might not arise in this way, as well as from the puncture of a tendon by a nail, or of a fascia or nerve by a bone, as sometimes occurs in compound fractures. Besides, there is occasionally a close resemblance in the symptoms of the two diseases. In some cases of tetanus there is a great difficulty of swallowing, and in hydrophobia there is frequently a convulsive and spasmodic action of the muscles not wholly unlike what occurs in teta nus. It is true, however, that the convulsive action of the muscles in these two forms of disease is not of precisely the same character, but yet there is often a sufficient resemblance to lead to the belief, that it arises in both cases from the same cause. 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.