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On Rabies:  

• An essay on the bite of a mad dog – Daniel Peter Layard (1768) 

• Observations of Hydrophobia (1812)  – James Thatcher 

• Rabies and Hydrophobia: Their History, Nature, Causes, Symptoms, and Prevention (1872) – George Fleming 

• Rabies and Hydrophobia (1893) – J. A. H. Caton 

• Hydrophobia: An Account of M. Pasteur’s System (1886) – Renaud Suzor 

• A Treatise on Hydrophobia (1826) – Richard Pearson 

• Pasteur and Rabies (1928) – Gerald L. Geison 

• The Natural History of Rabies (1975) – George M. Baer 

• Hydrophobia: An Account of M. Pasteur’s Method (1887) – Léon Labbe 

• Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus (2012) – Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy 

• Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840–1920 (2019) – Jessica Wang 
• Status of Rabies in the United States (1921)
• The Duration of Immunity in Dogs Following the Single-Injection Method of Anti-Rabic Vaccination (1928)
• Louis Pasteur S.J. Holmes, Ph.D. (1924)
• Rabies – Leslie T, Webster, M.D. (1943)

On early animal welfare and animal care:

• Dogs and Their Management: A Companion to the Dog Owner (1873) – Edward Mayhew 

• Animal Welfare and the Human Spirit (1895) – Francis Power Cobbe

• The Dog and How to Break Him (1898) – Gordon Stables 

• The Horse, the Dog, and the Cat: Practical Treatment and Home Remedies for Animals (1912) – A. H. Baker 

• The Law and Cruelty to Animals (1915) – Frank H. Tabor 

• Animal Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1892) – Henry S. Salt 

• Pets and How to Keep Them (1927) – Frank Finn 

• Kennel building and Plans – Will Judy (1947) 

• The Culture of Pet Keeping in America, 1850–1940 (1999) – Katherine C. Grier 
• A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement (2020) – Ernest Freeberg 

• The Cat Men of Gotham: Tales of Feline Friendships in Old New York (2019) – Peggy Gavin 
• Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals – Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy (2024)

Literature written from the perspective of the animal:

• Black Beauty – Anna Sewell, 1877
• Beautiful Joe – Margaret Marshall Sanders (1893)
• The Critter and Other Dogs – Albert Payson Terhune (1936)

Articles, magazines, essays, letters and papers (links where able): 

• Our Dumb Animals (1868 and ongoing) – George T. Angell 
• In the name of Mercy (1988) – Ed Duvin https://doggymom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ed-duvin-article-1989.pdf  

• Saved From Hydrophobia – The Author’s Account of Treatment at the Pasteur Center  – E.H. Julian (Published in Wide World Magazine, 1899) 
• Four Thousand Years of Concepts Relating to Rabies in Animals and Humans, Its Prevention and Its Cure – Arnaud Taratola (2017)
• Letters between Henry Bergh and P.T. Barnum
• Henry Bergh and His Work (Scribners)
• The humane movement; a descriptive survey / prepared on the Henry Bergh foundation for the promotion of humane education in Columbia university (1910)
• Humane Society Leaders in America (1924)
• The Humane Movement in the United States (1922)