Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus

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Pages iv and xii: Wellcome Library, London; 14: © Leeds Museums and Art Galleries (City Museum), UK / The Bridgeman Art Library International; 38 and 202: Photograph by the authors; 64: © The Trustees of the British Museum; 90: Private Collection / Peter Newark American Pictures / The Bridgeman Art Library; 118: Bibliothèque des Arts décoratifs, Paris / Archives Charmet / The Bridgeman Art Library; 150: Penguin Group (USA) Inc.; 180: Annals of Internal Medicine; 224: Digital image © 2011 Museum Associates / LACMA. Licensed by Art Resource, NY.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wasik, Bill.

Rabid : a cultural history of the world’s most diabolical virus / Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN: 978-1-101-58374-6

1. Rabies—Epidemiology—History. 2. Rabies—Treatment—History. I. Murphy, Monica.

II. Title.

RC148.W37 2012

614.5’63—dc23 2011043903

Printed in the United States of America

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