Observationes quaedam medico-practicae & physiologicae, inter quas aliquanto fusius agitur : de asthmate et hydrophobia... de cordis in embryone vasorum structura, & sanguinis juxta eam circuitu dissertatione /

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Remarks on the means of obviating the fatal effects of the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal : with observations on the method of cure when hydrophobia occurs and the opinion relative to worming of dogs refuted ... /

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Sialologia historico-medica, h.e. Salivae humanae consideratio physico-medico-forensis, qua ejus natura & usus insimulque morsus brutorum & hominis, rabies & hydrophobia, demorsorum delicta & defensio, item: signa vitalitatis ex spuma oris in foetu mortuo desumenda et alia huc spectantia quaestionibus medico-forensibus perpenduntur /

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An essay on the bite a mad dog : : in which the claim to infallibility of the principal preservative remedies against the hydrophobia is examined /

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Observations on hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal. With an examination of the various theories and methods of cure ... and an inquiry into the merit of specific remedies. Also a method of treatment best adapted to the brute creation. In a series of letters addressed to a friend.

Shaw & Shoemaker

Remarks on the disease called hydrophobia: prophylactic and curative

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A case of human rabies in the Urban Area of Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil

A 39-year old male patient was admitted to the University Hospital of the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto with signs and symptoms of sudden dyspnea, generalized myalgia and behavioral disorders. The initial suspicion was alcohol abstinence syndrome and the patient was referred for psychiatric and neurologic care. The evolution of the patient with a worsening of signs and symptoms, presence of crises of tachypnea, agitation, difficulty to swallow, irritability and hydrophobia, and his report of having been bitten by a suspected dog raised the hypothesis of rabies. The diagnosis was confirmed by examination of a corneal impression, biological tests in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and saliva and visualization of Negri bodies in nervous tissue (direct immunofluorescence). The patient evolved with agitation, aggressiveness, and worsening tachypnea intercalating with apnea, and died on the 4th day after admission

Renal involvement in human rabies: clinical manifestations and autopsy findings of nine cases from northeast of Brazil

A retrospective study was conducted in nine patients with rabies admitted to a hospital of Fortaleza, Brazil. Autopsy was performed in all cases. The ages ranged from three to 81 years and six were males. They all were bitten by dogs. The time between the accident and the hospital admission ranged from 20 to 120 days (mean 45 ± 34 days). The time until death ranged from one to nine days (mean 3.3 ± 5.5 days). The signs and symptoms presented were fever, hydrophobia, aerophobia, agitation, disorientation, dyspnea, sialorrhea, vomiting, oliguria, sore throat, pain and hypoesthesia in the site of the bite, headache, syncope, cough, hematemesis, mydriasis, hematuria, constipation, cervical pain and priapism. In three out of six patients, there was evidence of acute renal failure, defined as serum creatinine > 1.4 mg/dL. The post-mortem findings in the kidneys were mild to moderate glomerular congestion and mild to intense peritubular capillary congestion. Acute tubular necrosis was seen in only two cases. This study shows some evidence of renal involvement in rabies. Histopathologic findings are nonspecific, so hemodynamic instability, caused by autonomic dysfunction, hydrophobia and dehydration must be responsible for acute renal failure in rabies.