1881 RARE AMERICAN TREATISE ON TREATMENT OF RABIES BEFORE PASTEUR'S VACCINATION OF A CHILD IN 1885. 8 inches tall hardcover, viii, 154 pages, original red pebbled cloth covers with blindstamped design and beveled edges. Spine darkened, spine ends worn, institutional bookplate on front paste-down, no other library marks, overall very good. A 19th century American treatise on the history and treatment of rabies published 4 years before Pasteur's successful vaccination of a child bitten by a rabid dog in 1885. Bigelow was unaware of Pasteur's early studies of rabies (beginning in 1880), and belie... View More...
