The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-19 00:00:00

The Amazon and the Osprey.

The Board of Trade (Marine Department) have
. received the annexed official deposition made on
oath before the receiver of wreck by Captain Ste-
phen Burtridge, late commander of the Osprey
' steamer, relative to the circumstances connected
with the recent extraordinary collision in the
Channel, by which the Osprey and her Majesty's
' steamship Amazon both foundered, with loss of
life :—" Stephen Burtridge, late master of the
L Osprey, states that the Osprey (screw steamer)
' was 426 tons register, and belonged to the
Cork Steamship Company. She was schooner
rigged, and built of iron at Cork in 1855. Her crew
' numbered 20 hands, andher cargo consisted of gene-
, ral goods, consignel to merchants at Antwerp. She
carried seven passengers. My wife and three chil-
dren, and a little boy, a friend of the family, were
on board. The vessel left Liverpool on the 7th at 6
p.m., weather fine, and a moderate breeze from the
west. We brought up in Crosby Channel, aboutfive
miles from Liverpool, for the purpose of adjusting
the feed valves. In about an hour and a half got
under way and proceeded down Channel, weather
fine, and occasionally foggy. Rounded the Land's
End at about 11 a.m. on the 9th. The feed valves
acting satisfactorily, proceeded up Channel ; passed
the Start Light at about 8.45 p.m., all well. At 12
midnight the
.chief mate took charge of the watch,
having relieved the second mate. I had been on the
bridge up till 11.50. I went into the look-out house
on the same bridge, and stretched myself on the sofa,
having previously directed the second mate to call
me if there was the least fog or for any other pur-
pose. At about 12.50 a.m. the chief mate came to the
door of the watch-house, whichwasbroad open, and
called out, g Look here, sir ; here's a fellow running
into us on his starboard helm. Ours is hard aport.'
I immediately jumped up and shouted to the man
to keep the helm hard aport, as had been previously
directed by the mate. I made the stranger out tobe
a heavy steamship, under full steam, approaching
the Osprey rapidly. We were going at the timeto
about si knots. I hailed the ship and told him to ;
put his helm hard aport, but received noeaansswnee
nor did I observe that she altered herconurer
~
ei
inil.
point, but ran straight upon us. I Then
helm.
tn
pression she was tending starboard
wasl a
ra
neared us I clearly discovered she
skylight_
Ams, asillide
under the port
she struck us under the mizen rigging
the
ccilisi°ll
mwyn sthhiep
11y G points. I immediately
goguatrotetrh.
eAstoltiltlientviamrde of
fully
jumped to the cabin and called o
having gone board '
on the
for the passengers to come up and save their lives, as
women andchildren - into the
stranger•
boat, and cut the lashings, in order that
best they could,
port after
the boat might float off the deck as the ship sank
I plactehdetchre ,
from under us, the stranger having parted from us.
The ship sunk suddenly. The davits head caught
the gunwale of the boat, and she sank with the Os-
prey,—drowning the seven passengers and three of
my own children. My -wife jumped out of her, and
was saved by the stranger's boat. I went down
with the boat, but saved my life by swimming, and
caught hold of a lifebuoy. When I came to the
surface, seeing the stranger's boat coming, I called
to them to pick up the women, for that I was all
right. From the time of the collision it was about

Li" \PER
t tc i 4
four or five minutes, before the WIWI-4 k 1
weather was beautifully fine, andA .!/.
and the air perfectly clear. We werQ4l34ittl 1111@ei
to the south-west of Portland. I was *lkeda ang
taken on board the stranger, which proved to be
her Majesty's ship Amazon. At the time of the ac-
cident the Osprey's regulation lights were burning
brilliantly. I kept on full speed in order to get out
of the stranger's way as quick as possible. A guar- -
ter of an hour after getting on board the Amazon
she was found to be in a sinking state, and we had
to take to the boats to save our lives. We arrived
at Torquay at about 3 in the afternoon of the 10th.
The screens of the Osprey's regulation lights were
properly adjusted according to the regulations of the
surveyor of the Board of Trade at Liverpool. My
crew were all perfectly sober, and were a good,
steady set of men. I estimated the loss of the ship •
at £19,000 (the value of the cargo not included). -
Ten lives were lost by drowning and 22 saved.
" STEPHEN BUETRIDGE."

Is there a Cure for Hydrophobia ?

(From the Observer.)

At this period of the year, when the dog days are at their
height, and when the recent prevalence of that terrible
disease hydrophobia is considered, the question of whether
there be a remeuy or no for so dire a calamity as the bite of
a mad dog cannot be discussed without a feeling of its deep
importance to the human family of every grade.
Various speciff have beef propounded as remedies for
hydrophobia, but that which has more than any other borne
the test of actual and successful experience and practical
illustration is the application of heat in the eradication -of

the poisonous virus from the human system in the shape of
the Turkish bath. From the variety of experiments which
have taken place under the guidance of the most. eminent
men connected with the medical profession in our own
country as well as on the Continent a fact has been estab-
lished, which every possible moans should be taken to make
known to the public, that even in cases of hydrophobia thero
is a remedy provided for all those that may be attacked
with the malady. From the experiments before referred
to it is now well known that heat raised to a certain-
point will extract from the body•all poisons that are
not -sudden in their effectk- and therefore will not
only prevent but curd this (hitherto pronounced fatal
and incurable) disease. Witn the praiseworthy object of
making these moans known to the public, the directors of
the Hanitnam, or Turkish baths in Jermyn-street, have
constructed a radiating chamber connected with that insti-
tution, opened free at all times for cases of hydrophobia,
or for persons who have been bitten by or supposed rabid
dog, where heat can be raised to any degree that the
patient's case may require. This radiating heat is produced,
and also a perfect ventilation of the chamber at the same
time is obtained, by a stove which has been invented and
patented by Mr. D. Urquhart, the managing director. The
size of this radiating chamber is 15ft. sin. by lift. 2in., and
it is furnished with couches, the floor being covered with
thick felt. The heat generated averages 200, and can be
raised to a much higher degree when required, but the
heat being so excessive, the greatest caution is necessary.
This radiating chamber does not, any more than the
plunging tank, belong to the Turkish bath ; it therefore
direction,
appears
santdo
tlyhe beca
processr
eubsoyefdwtohhnei3ashtuteifftneidrasanne et. ,
malady of hydrophobia can be overcome, and the pa-
tient e a nt
underhoenthe fright-
ful assertedTanhaith ba
ytt h
evenen
restored to life and society ; andthe question thenna-
turally aries as to the proofs that the Turkish bath or heat
will cure hydrophobia. The' Manual of the Turkish Bath,'
edited by Sir John Fife, M.D., F.R.C.S., Senior Surgeon
of the Newcastle Infirmary, page 299, quoting from Mr.
D. Urquhart, at Cork, in August, 1856, observes :
" I should not mind my own child being bitten by a mad
dog, so certain am I that the bath would cure him. Some
time since I asked a medical man to find me a case of
hydrophobia, as I was convinced that the disorder must
yield to the bath. He told me that my idea had been anti-
cipated in the only known case of cure. A French physi-
cian having been bitten by a mad dog, and suffering from
the first symptoms of the disorder, knowing that medicine
was of no avail, and thinking only how ho could die most
easily, bad himself carried into a vapour bath, there to re-
main till death. He remained until life. He was carried
out cured."

Again, in a case reported in Galignani's Messenger, Oct.,
1863, Dr. Buisson addressed the following communication
to the Abeille Medicale :

" A single vapour bath is sufficient to prevent hydro--
phobia by eliminating the virus. Nevertheless, for the sake
of greater security, I caused seven to be taken in as many
days at a temperature of from 42 deg. to 48 deg. Reaumur,
and 127 deg. to 140 deg. Fahrenheit. Care should be taken
to press the wound well while in the bath in order to pro--
mote the expulsion. If the disorder has declared itself I
only prescribe a single bath, and leave the patient in it till
the cure is effected, taking care to raise the temperature
gradually. Hydrophobia may last three days. Experience
has proved to me that the cure is certain on the first day of
the outbreak ; on the second it is uncertain ; on the third
impossible, from the difficulty and danger :there would bo
in conveying the patient to the bath and keeping him in.
Who would, however, wait for the third day, knowing my
treatment? Nor should one wait for the outbreak; it ought
always to be prevented. Hydrophobia never breaks out
before the seventh day, so that there is time to perform a
long journey to obtain what is called in Russia a vapour
bath."

That the same agency which the foregoing extracts tend
to prove will cure hydrophobia when actually developed will
prevent the disease should a person have been bitten by a
rabid dog has been distinctly established by cases which
have already been received at the Hammam, where by ex-
tracting the virus the inflammation was allayed, and a
healthy and perfect healing of the wounds of the partiesso
bitten effected. The supei:ntondent in his report says:--
" On Friday, June 8, we had the first case of hydropho-
bia in a gentleman, a frequenter of the bath. Two of his
dogs had been fighting, and in trying to separat3 them the
largest one flew at him and bit him just above the elbow.
The wounds born marks of the dog's teeth ; round each
there was a very sharp-marked red rim and a yellow disco-
louring. After being a very short time in the middle hot
room he went with me into the radiating room, at 211
deg., and stayed for about 10 minutes ; he then went into
the middle hot room for about half an hour, and after he
was shampooed and washed he went down into the radiat-
ing loom again for about eight minutes. He took altogether
a very severe bath. After being in the cold room for a
while and had become quite cool, the wounds were quite
wet and had quite a different appearance. On Monday,
June 18, he came again, the wounds appearing quite diffe-
rent, the discolouring was all gone, and each wound ap-
peared as if there was a crusty lid on the top of it about an
eighth of an inch thick; one came off in the bath, leaving
the wound almost healed, the other remained.
"The case of Saturday, June 9, was quite different. It
was a working man bitten by a dog without any provoca-
tion; the appearance of the wounds were quite different,
they were just in the bend of the arm, but not discoloured;
the whole part was swollen. It took one of the men some
time to get him clean, and after he had been a short time
in the middle hot room I went with him into the radiating
room, at 212 deg. He could remain in only for six minutes.
He said he felt very much knocked up, and wanted a great
deal of persuading to get him down once more for about
two minutes.

" The parties alluded to in the above cases have been to
express their grateful thanks to the directors for the benefit
which they were convinced they had derived from the
bath. These remarkable results have been brought about
simply by the heat causing a copious perspiration, and as

body
ftehtsosai of
it were pulling the disease out of the body.
"I need not remind you that this effect can be produced
with greater facility in a hot air, or Turkish bath, than in a
vapour bath, as the body can endure a far greater degree of
heat than when accompanied with vapour; and also there
can be no mistaking vapour for perspiration in the hot-air
In the -
bath ; and as this is the great object to be desired you have
held recently by Dr. Lan-
the consolation of knowing that the moisturean upon the
at oc
al
i rs en
le
as
tokwe ththhi ocehi limhup oabv;arne Rance ee
not lf
thetakae pn
plaTeeh7ealandrgtebenusemvbeerarloifnquests,
a:: remedyil°hyeldsreo:hobia.
ptkbleiesc taemtri ,oe
medical
itte
aogf hl
btpenraoot
therefore, that the directors of the II as-
surance,
king the 4- discoveries known, have done anamam, in
ma
in
simple desire to assist bringing about a great public
good, we have much pleasure in laying before
the means by which it is proposed the public
which must prove an invaluable boon suffering humanity,
to accomplish that
as bunging I:fe and hope to the O toted r and despairing suf-
ferer. Ic

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