PEDIATRICS Vol. 47 No. 2 February 1971, pp. 460
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Excerpt VIII: Worrying Dogs

Thomas E. Cone Jr. M.D.

The consequences to children involved in worrying dogs were dreaded even more in the 1820's than today. Rabies prophylaxis and pediatric surgery were still unknown.

Medical and lay writers of the early 1800's often warned parents about the perils of dog bites. These writers tended to juxtapose the adjectival "wicked" whenever they wrote "boy," as though the two were inseparable.1