Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-07-25

Madness and its Remedies.


To the Editor of the Tribune;
| will thank you TO give place TO the follow
ing: JOHN WEsLEY's Remedy for the bite of a
mad dog:
Isl. Plunge into cold wafer daily for 90 days.
keep under as long as possible This has
cured even aferlhe Hydrophobia was begun.
I'd. Or mix The ashes of refoil, or oak ashes
with hogs lard, and anont the part bitten as
soon as possible, repeat twice or thrice, al SIX
hours iniermission. This has cured many in
England, and one instance particularly, dog
bitten on the nose by mad dog.
Sd. Or mix pound of salt with quart of
water, squeeze, ba,he and wash the wound with
this brine for one hour; then bind some fine salt
on The wound for l3 hours. The author OF this
receipt was bitten six times by rahid, or mad
dogs, and each time cured himself by this SIM
pie remedy The above is an extract from Jno
Wesey's book of receipts for the poor of Eng
land.
HYDRoPHoBA OR CANINE MADNESS The
following remedy (says certain aulhor) has
been successfully used Sy the sporting gentry
of Ireland, whose hounds sometimes got into
rabid slate The experiment was tried soon
after dog had bitten a number OF his comrades;
all the dogs bitten but one had the remedy ad-
minislered, and showed no signs of madness
But the one which did not take the remedy
died in a rabid slale This was fair expert
ment.
An Internal Remedy for HydrophOJ,a--Take
ozs. filings of pewter, 6 ozs. of rue, the herb,
puverized. OF. garlic, 4 OF. miihrldate, or
Venice .reakle, Gu, The rue and garlic fine or
small, mix the whole in three quarts Of strong
beer, put the same articles in a vessel that can
be stopped tight; put it In po, Of cold wafer.
If the vessel containing the ingredients be of
glass. wind rope of hay around it 10 prevent
its breaking when boiling. Lei II simmer for
three or four hours over slow fire. Then
take the vessel out of the pot of water, and pour
out the contents, and strain and press or squeeze
the strength ou. of the herbs, and bottle the Ii
quor for use-cork il well. Doses: For dog,
one table spoonful the first day; the second
day; the third day; The 4ih day, and 5 the
fifth day. Then for four days more, give five
table spoonsiuls for a dose each day, making
nine days in all. The same remedy 10 be ta-
ken and and in the same way, by man, woman
or child. Children under - years of age, take
the remedy in proportion. To be taken in the
morning. The sooner The remedy is applied
after The bite the better. Poullice The wound
with the warm ingredients, squeezing The
wound This has the appearance of valua-
bic remedy. Try it,
And vet another valuable remedy for Hydro
phobia, the bite Of raltlesnakes, chunk head or
pilot snake, spider &c. Take white onion
Gu, it across the grain into four equal parts
sprinkle fine salt on the oniun, and apply ii by
bandages To the wound as soon as possible af
Ter being bitten by dog, or spider, and the poi.
son will run up into the onion; repeat every
half hour with new piece, or until there is ne
discooring OF poison III The onion, and the poi
son is extracted. Then healing plaster uiay
! be used and The wound healed
S. RUTMAN, n J.
There are accounts in almost every paper o
persons coming TO an untimely grave from iht
bite of mad dogs or poisonous serpenls. Hcnc,
all tried an,idoies for these evils oueh, 10 bt
made as public as possible. Accordingly The
writer of these articles feels in duiv bound Il
do something TO alleviate, if possible, the sul
ferings Of his iellow-men.
S. II. WEED.
New-York June II, 1874.
Let each printer of public Journal, or relI
eous Periodical, give these recipes an lnser
ton in his paper and he may do something /,
prolong the lives Of useful persons in the world