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- GLC#
- GLC06513.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 5 August 1840
- Author/Creator
- Thacher, James, fl. 1840-1841
- Title
- to James Mease
- Place Written
- Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address Height: 25.5 cm, Width: 20.3 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Remarks that he has just read in the North American [publication] that a number of physicians have declared that they believe there is no such disease as hydrophobia because they have never seen an instance of it. Hopes that Mease will come forward and dispute this claim.
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