a man named Aristotle, in 400 BC, wrote in Natural History of Animals edition 8, chapter 22, as follows
".... mad dog. This causes them to be aggressive and all animals that bite are also experiencing the same pain. "
those people who never mentioned the characteristics of rabies in his writing is Hippocrates, Plutarch, Xenophon, Epimarcus, Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. Celsius, a doctor in the Roman era, associate hidrofobia (fear of water) with dog bites, in the year 100 AD. Cardanus, a Roman writer explains the nature of the infection in saliva dog with rabies. At that time the Roman writer described rabies as a poison, which is the Latin word for the virus. Pliny and Ovid was the first to explain another cause of rabies, which was then called the dog tongue worm (dog tongue worm). To prevent rabies at the time, the surface of the tongue are thought to contain "worms" cut. The presumption is to survive until the 19th century, when Louis Pasteur finally succeeded in demonstrating the spread of rabies by growing the infected brain tissue in 1885 Goldwasser and Kissling find in a modern way of diagnosis of rabies in 1958, namely with imunofluoresens antibody technique to find the rabies antigen in the network.
to be continue...