Rabies
Its Place amongst Germ-Diseases and its Origin in the Animal Kingdom

First published in 1903, this book presents a wide-ranging study of rabies.

David Sime (Author)

9781107456600, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 January 2015

306 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm, 0.47 kg

First published in 1903, this book presents a wide-ranging study of rabies. Three key areas of the disease are explored: its causation in the individual organism, its place among germ diseases with the end of bacterial agency in the animal economy, and its origin in the animal kingdom. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in epidemiology and the historical understanding of rabies.

1. The salivary gland, as the seat of rabies
2. The bulbar substance and the lumbar-swelling, as the specific site in the nervous system
3. Determination of the seat of germination from the symptoms and signs
4. Rabies of the sympathetic nervous system
5. The 'rabies-virus', quantitative rather than qualitative in character
6. The multiform structure of the rabies-microbe
7. Mode and route of conveyance of the rabies-germ to the cerebro-spinal substance
8. The order of germ-diseases to which rabies belongs
9. Pre-incubation period and incubation proper
10. Rabies, a germ-disease of centric not of peripheral connective-tissue
11. The prevention and protection imparted by rabies-virus
12. The relation of bacterial agency to secreting organs and to the evolution of the animal organism
13. Is canine-rabies the primary form of the disease in the animal kingdom?
14. Rabies, a germ-disease of intensifiers
15. Why rabies prevails in the dog
16. How rabies arises in intensifiers
Index.

Subject Areas: History of medicine [MBX]