Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1831-07-07


strong coffee, but Thick and SHY; after
which he breathcd calmly for a short
time and expired without struggle, pre-
ciscly at l2 o'clock.
Al the animals bit by the same dog,
run mad few days prior to the death oI
Mr.. Foster
HyDnopnoDlA. DR.. Hamilton, after
laborious research, fixes the lOth day
after the intlction, rs the earliest period
at which this disease has appeared, and
10 months as the latest, Between these
periods the times of attack are very va
rous. OF l3l cases, II were seized
before the 30th day; go between the
30h and 10Th; % from 60 to 90 days;
from 80 to 100; and II from . to ID
months. The DIR. afterwards mentions
the case of Il boy bitten in the toe by Il
cat, Oh the Iith July 1871, IN which the
poison lay dormant until the 10Th Nov.
1900, n period of Mrec gears d"d toHr
months! DR.. Thatchcr's work on liy-
drophobia contains a minute description
of several cases, almost too horrible to
read or think of. Jou. ot Com.
IIypnoruonlA.--D a. i. Fayer-
man, Of London, published in 1894, the
cure Rthis dreadful disease, OF ii patient,
named Roberts, aged -, and OF robust
constitution, by the solution OF lead, in
doses of 10 drops every four hours, on a
lump of sugar
Doctors Hall and Lawrence, Of New
York, state they cured Vi. faIaen, who
resides in Cherry street, of hydrophobIa,
who was bitten on the l4th inst. Their
cure was very large doses OF calomcl
and laudanum.
From the Liverpool Mercury.
I CURE FOR !rDRo?noDIA.--AS the
Uydrophoba season has set in, we com
ply with the request of n correspondent
by giving the following an inscrlion'-
What we happen to know of the cxtraor-
dinary property of the chloride of lime
induces us to put great faith in the cure
of wound inflicted by dogs.
We are indebted to Mr Costcr, a
French physician, for the following val
liable discovery, as preventive to ny
drophobia. Take two tablc-spooniuls
of fresh chloride of lime i'll powder, mix
| it with half pint Of water, and with this
/ wash keep the wound constantly bathed,
! and frequently renewed. The chloride
: gas possesses the power OF dccomposln9
this tremendous poison, and render mild
! and harmless that venom against whose
| rcsistless attack the artillery of mcdlca
science has been so long directed in vain
II is necessary to add that this wasl
should be applied as soon as possible at
ter the inlliction Of the bite. Another
plan which has been extensively tried Il
Brcslau and Zurich, and many othe
parts of the Continent, consists not mere
iy in cutting out the bitten part; (mcr'
; incision has been found too often una
vailng) but in combining with the n:cls
ion the eflcctual means for keeping opcl
the wound, and maintaining IN stat
of suppuration during Il period OF at lcas
six weeks. Other curative means, a
), the exhibition of mercury, bclladonn
or kltoc were also employed in thcs
cases; but upon these, it is thought, lttl
reliance can be placed. The tollowln:
) are the results OF this trcatment--froiI
1870 to 1924, the number of persons ad
mittcd into the Brcslau Hospital, wa
: 1871, of whom two only died Of hy dropho
= bia; from 1888 to 1924, inclusive, ther
< were admitted into the Hospital at ~
rich o33 pei sons, bitten by different am
! mails, (lS2 by dogs OF whom only lou
Il died-two on the second day Of admls
: sion. and in whom the disease had prob
ably become developed before they wer
submitted TO the treatment, and the OH
! two were bitten in parts inside OF tn
:, cheek and cyeld) where the proscnbe
d means could not be employed with tn
. requisite cXactncss.