The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-05-27
HYDROPHOBlA.

As there seems to be q prospect Of the peo-
pie in this section of the country being again
thrown into CONSERVATION by the appearance
Of this dreadful malady, we would beg leave to
call the attention of Physicians and Others To
the me thod of cure described in the subjoin
ed article, recently brought to light bya cor
respondent of the National Inteiligencer.-
There have been at least two decided cases of
canine madness in this vicinity, within a
few months past. In both instances the pa
tent died in the most horrible manner, not
withstanding the whole body Of our Physicians
in consultation used every means which their
knowledge and experience could suggest to eff
feet cures. Under these circumstances the
method of treatment pursued in the Ukraine,
would surely seem worthy of experiment, II,
unfortunately, another occasion should present
| itself.
The correspondent of the Intelligencer thus
describes the plant made use Of
GENIsrA. Broom, French, Legenet, Ger
| man Der Ginster.) DIADEPHIA decandria,
Linnaus Leguminosa. LouDoN describes ma
ny varieties. He says of it: 1.-THE species
ale shrubs or understands, some of them ever
green, and many with numerous flexible rush
like green twigs like the brooms. They are
of easy culture, and free fiowerers. G. Tincto-
ria is common in most parts Of Europe, in un-
improved pastures on dry gravelly soil. When
cows feed on it their milk, and the butter OF
cheese made from it, are said to be very bitter
A bright yellow color may be prepared from
| the flowers, and for wool that is to be dyed
4 ,xx-itb he - Ill
ers. A drachm and half of the powdered
seeds operates as a mild purgative. A decoc-
tion of the plant is sometimes diuretic, and
4 therefore has proved serviceable in dropsied ca
ses. A salt prepared from the ashes is recon-
mended in the same disorder"
| Eaton and Wright, in their "North Ameri-
/ can Botany, describe it "GENIsTA Leg. nut.
asc. ape. (exotic) tinctoria, (dyers' broom,)
wood waxen, leaves lanceo'ate, glabrous, BRAN
4 ches terete, striate, erect, unarmed, lugumes
lglabrous.
] Not being practical botanist, and having
no other reference at hand, some one skilled in
medical botany may be induced to give bet
1 ter description of the plant, that cannot fail to
interest us for its admirable virtues ascribed to
it by DIR, Marochetti and others. 1t will be
also interesting TO have explained what is
meant by "thc summit" where the account
| says, "the peasant gave to his fourteen pa
| tients a strong decoction Of the summit, and
FL. genistaa luta tinctoria' about pound and
half daily, &C."
CURE OF HYDROPHOBIA.
From the Imperial Magazine, London, 1922. ]
There has been received, from gentleman at
Berlin, the following important statement Of
the mode ofcure practised in the Ukraine for
the bite of mad dog. Ii is translated from
the Berlin State Gazette mo. 20) of the 18th
Of February, 1922, and certainly seems emit
tied to the fullest consideration of all medical
practitioners.
When Mr.. Marochetti, an operator in the
hospital at Moscow, was in the Ukraine in IT,
| IL. In one day fifteen persons applied 10 him
| for cure, having been bitten by mad dog
Whilst he was preparing the remedies depu-
| tation of several old men made its appearance
| to request him to allow peasant to treat them
"a man who for some years past enjoyed q
great reputation for his cures of hydrophobia,
1 of whose success Mr.. Marochetti had already
heard much. He consented to their request
under these conditions: first, that he, Mr.. Ma
rochetu, should be present at every thing done
j BY theipeasant;secondly,i in order that he might
n be fully convinced that the dog was really
mad, he, Mr.. Narochetti, should select one OF
) the patients, who should only be treated ac-
cording the medical course usually held in es-
timation. A girl of six years old was chosen
for THIS purpose.
I. The peasant gave to his fourteen patients a
e strong decoction of the Summit and Fl. &C.
nista Lut9 Tinct orie," about pound and a
half daily, and examined twice day under the
: tongues, where, as he stated small knots con-
Il tanning the poison OF the madness must form
e themselves. As soon as these small knots &C.
= tually appeared, and which MIR. Marochetti
himself saw. they were opened and caute
y rized with red hot needle; after which the
81 patient gurgled with decoction of the "Ge
n nista." The result Of this treatment was tina
X all the fourteen (of whom only two, the las
y bitten, did not show these knots) were dis
:" missed cured at the end of six weeks, durin,
p which time they drank this decoction. Blu
ty the little girl, who had been treated accordin,
h, to the usual methods, was seized with HYDRO
phobic symptoms on the seventh day, and wa
DO dead in eight hours after they first took place
E. The persons dismissed as cured were seen thre,
10 years afterwards by Mr.. Marcchetti, and the,
:, Were all sound and well.
Five years after this circumstance lin 1918
Mr.. Marochetti had new opportunity in Pc
dolio of confirming this mportant discovery
&c The treatment of twenty six persons who hs,
= there been bitten by mad dog was confide,
ie TO him; nine were men, eleven women, an
!, six children. He gave them at once decoc
10 ton of the "Genista," and diligent examina
p. ton Of their tongues gave the following result
ls FIVE men, all the women, and three childrel
ID had the small knots already mentioned; thos
P bitten worst on the third day, others on tn
le fifth, seventh, and ninth, and one woman, VIII
&c had been bitten but very specifically in tn
leg only, on the twenty frst day. The othe
al seven also, who showed no small knots, dram
n the "Decoctum Genista" six weeks, and al
J, the patients were cured.
In consequence Of these observations, MI
. Marochetti believes that the hydraphobia poi