Washington telegraph., 1844-11-06
MADNESS AND iTs REMEDIES.

MADNESS AND frS REMEDIES.
To the Editor of the Tribune.
will thank you TO give place to The fol.
lowing:-John Wesley's Remedy for the
bite of Mad dogs.
lst. Plunge into cold water daily for 30
DAYS, keep under as long as possible. This
has cured, even after the hydrophobia was
begun.
ID. Or mix the ashes of trefoil, or oak
ashes, with hogs lard and anoint the part
bitten as soon possible, repeat twice or
thrice, az six hour intermIssion. This has
cured many in England, and in one instance
particularly, a dog bitten on the nose by
mad dog.
Sd. Or mix pound of salt with a quart
of water: squeeze, bathe and wash the
wound with this brine for one hour; then
bind some fine salt on the wound for II
hours. The author ofthis receipt was Bit
ten six times BY rabid, or mad dogs, and
each time cured himself by this simple
remedy. The above is an extract from
1 John Wesley's book of receipts for the
poor of England.
Hydrophobia or Canine Madness Cured.
The following remedy (says a certain
author) has been successfully used by the
\ sporting gentry of Ireland, whose hounds
sometimes get in rabid state. The ex-
pertinent was tried soon after dog had Bit
ten number of his comrades; all the dogs
bitten but one had the rene ly "A m.nis;ered.
and showed no signs of madness. But the
one which did not take the remedy, died in
a rabid state. This was n fair expert
men'.
An internal Remedy for Hydrophobia.
Take or. filing OF pewter. 6 or. rue, the
herb, pu!yerizei, 4 o. garlick, 4 OF. mith
ridatc, or venice trcakle, cut the rue or gar
lie fine or small, mix the whole in three
quarts of strong beer, put the same articles
IN Il vessel that can be stopped tight; put it
into u pot of cold water. Ii the vessel con-
tanning the ingredients be of glass, wind
rope OF hay round ii to preyens its breaking
when boiling. Let it simmer for three or
fur hours over slow tire. Then take the
inside vesse! out of the pot of water, and
pour out the contents and strain and press
or squeeze the Strength out of the herbs,
and bottle the liquor for use-cori1 it well.
Doses: For dog. one table spoonful the
first day; the second day, 3 the third day;
4 the fourth day; and ) the iii.h day. Then
f,r four days more, give five ta5.e spoon lis
for a dose each day, making nine iii. in
all. The same remedy to be taken, AMI in
the same way, by man, woman or child.
D-Chiidren take the remedy in proportion.
under twelve years of age. To be taken
in the morning. The sooner the remedy
is applied after the bite the better
| TPoultice the wound with the warm in-
! gredien;s, squeezing the wound. This has
the appearance Of valuable remedy.
Try it.
And vet another valuable remedy for
I Hydrophob.a, the bite of Rattlesnakes.
I Chunk head or Pilot snake, Spider, &c:
| Take n white onion, cut il across the grain
into four equal parts; sprinkle fine SAT- ON
the onion and apply it by bandages TO the
wound as soon possible after being bit.
ten by a dog, snake or spider, and the poi
son will run up into the onion; repeat every
halfhour with new piece, or until there is
no discoloring of poison in the onion, and
he poison extracted. Then healing
plaster may be used and the wound healed.
:. RuTMAN, New Jersey.
There are accounts in almost every pa
per persons coming to an untimely grave
from the bite Of mad dogs or poisonous SER
pents. Hence all tried antidotes for these
evils ought to be made as public as possible.
Accordingly the writer OF these articles
feels in duty bound TO do something to al
ieviate if possible, the sutierings o.! his fcl-
/ low men.
5. III. WEED.
New York, June II, 1914.
6rLet each printer of public Journal
or religious Periodical, give these recipe,
an insertion in his Papers and he may do
something to proiong the lives of useful per-