Mad dogs: the new rabies plague

letters reproduced here, the book's main focus is on the work of Rayer: five chapters are devoted to meticulous analysis of his contributions to nineteenth-century medical science. It is an impressive collection of observations on a wide variety of subjects: from his doctoral thesis on the history of morbid anatomy to the observations on human and animal teratology. His pioneering studies in comparative pathology range from classic papers and books on glanders and tuberculosis to foot-and-mouth disease, animal pox diseases and anthrax, and culminated in a textbook of comparative medicine (1863). His plates of glanders lesions reproduced here are haunting in their realism, as are those accompanying his other major texts on kidney disease, produced between 1837 and 1841. The reproductions of both glanders and kidney disease colour plates here are of high quality, and join other well chosen illustrations in a text which will be treasured as an invaluable source of reference by present and future historians.