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Excerpt from An Inaugural Dissertation on Rabies Canina: Submitted to the Consideration of the Honourable Robert Smith, Provost, and of the Regents of the University of Maryland
Medicine, in common with other sciences, has.sufa fered much from the ambiguity and indefinite application of terms of this, the subject of this essay, furnishes abundant evidence. This disease, from one of its most prominent symtoms, a dread 'of water, has been called o hydrophobia; and rabies canina, from its being produced by the canine virus I adopt the latter term; though not unexceptionable, because I consider it more so than the former; the latter designating the uniform, and indeed only remote cause of the disease, while the former mis leads by exhibiting that fol' the disease, which is but a prominent symptom.
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