The Hair of the Dog

In the nineteenth century, there was a mass of debate about rabies. Was it spread by some kind of virus like agents, or did it arise spontaneously in dogs who were too hot? So that ince big debate, just as there was a big debate about how to cure it. It wasn't really until pasteur, louis pasteur came along in the mid 18 eighties, with his rabe's treatment and the wider acceptance of german theory, that there was a hope that this disease could be treated. But rabe, it's really fascinating how it just sparked so many anxieties. And i think it really spoke to those those tensions and those worries about urban life