The Wide Variety of Rabies Preventatives

Dr. Aaron: The wide variety of these is a pretty good indication that desperation drove people to try all kinds of things to prevent themselves or their loved ones from dying. And sometimes these cures probably appeared to work either because the bite from the dog didn't break the skin or the dog was just angry and not rabid. But really no actual advancements in effective treatment or knowledge about rabies were made at all throughout ancient times and up into the middle ages, past the middle ages,. Really until pasture set his mind to rabies in the 1800s.