. Circular N0. 284 (Revised) Lexington, February, 1937
‘ University of Kentucky
`:  College of Agriculture, Extension Division
l. Published in connection with the agricultural extension work carried on by coopera-
>· tion of the College of Agriculture, Univ;rsity of Kentucky, with the U. S. Department of
= Agriculture, and distributed in furtherance of the work provided for in the Act of Congress
, of May 8. 1914.
RABIES
By T. P. POLK and L. A. BROWN
, Certain diseases of animals may be transmitted to the human.
· One of these, rabies or hydrophobia, affects warnrblooded animals
· generally. Tho of infrequent occurrence it is dreaded because no
cure is known. The frequency of the disease seems to be increasing,
inasmuch as a larger number of cases is reported each succeeding
year. In 1936, six persons died from the disease, and reports from
j county agents in 105 counties show that the loss of livestock, from
rabies, was $65.000. in the state.
HISTORY
Rabies is one of the oldest diseases known. lt was described by ,
» .-lristotle in his writings, in the fourth century, B. C. In 1881-89,
y Pasteur and his collaborators solved the problem of vaccination
  against the disease. In 1903, Adelchi Negri. an Italian physician.
showed that certain microscopic objects. called Negri bodies, are
present in the brain of a rabid animal.
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