Excerpt from Rabies and Hydrophobia: Their History, Nature, Causes, Symptoms, and Prevention<br><br>I have endeavoured, therefore, in the following pages to offer a complete treatise on the subject from a sanitary, and also from a comparative pathologist's, point Of View; for I believed that my labours would be incomplete, and would lose much of their value, did I omit to include mankind in the °list while treating of every other creature that suffers from its effects. In this instance, as in so many others, it is almost impossible to divorce human pathology from its twin, and by no means to be despised, sister - comparative patho logy. F or many years the student of disease has had ample reason to regret the neglect with which the latter science has been treated in this country, and to wonder why human and veterinary medicine should be so strangely isolated from each other, instead of affording mutual aid in the advancement of medical knowledge. There cannot be a doubt that it will be better for society and humanity in general when the healer of disease in mankind knows something of the maladies of the inferior animals, and when the veterinarian receives that training which will enable him better to understand the morbid conditions of his own species; for he will then be more fitted to comprehend those Of the creatures for which he is to prescribe. It is to be sincerely hoped that both branches of medical science will ultimately be looked upon as one, and-that the benefits to be derived from their union may be fully realised.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.