Evansville weekly journal., 1848-06-01
HYDROPHoBlA.

AS there seems to be 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 mf thod of cure described in the suboin-
ed article, recently brought to light bya cor
respondent of the National Intelligencer.-
There have been at least two decided cases of
canine madness in this vicinity, within
few months past. In both instances the pa
tient 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 Under these circumstances the
method of treatment pursued in the Ukraine,
would surely seem worthy of experiment, if,
unfortunately, another occasion should present
ITSELF
The correspondent of the Intelligencer thus
describes the plant made use OF:
GENlsrA. Broom, (French, Legenet, Ger
man Der Ginster.) DIADEPHIA decandria,
Linnaus Leguminose 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
Ii Ike green twigs like the brooms. They are
of easy culture, and free howerers. g. Tincto-
ria is common in most parts of Europe, in un-
improved pastures on dry grayelly soil. When
cows feed on it their milk, and the butter or
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
green with wood the dyers prefer it to all 9TH
ers. A drachm and half of the powdered
seeds operates as a mild purgative. A decoc-
ton of the plant is sometimes diuretic, and
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) tinctoriG, (dyers' broom,)
wood waxen, leaveslanceolate. glabrous, bran
ches terete, strlate, erect, unarmed, lugumes
glabrous.
Not being practical boanist, and having
no other reference at hand. some one skilled in
medical botany may be induced to give bet
ter description of the plant that cannot fail to
interest US for It's admirable virtues ascribed to
it by DR.. Marochetti and Others 1t will be
also interesting to have explained what is
meant by "the summit" where the account
tients strong deCoction of the summit and
Fl. genistaa lute tinctoria' about pound and
half daily, &c"
CURE OF HYDROPHOBIA.
From the Imperial Magazine, London, 1922. I
There has been received, from a 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 (No. 20) of the 18th
of February, 1922, aud certainly seems enti-
tied to the fullest consideration of all medical
practitioners.
When Mr.. Marochetti, all operator in the
hospital at Moscow, was in the Ukraine in l8-
IL, IN one day fifteen persons applied TO 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 a
great reputation for his cures of hydrophoba
of whose success Mr. Marochetti had already
heard much. He consented to their request
under these conditions: first, that he, Mr.. Ma
rochettl, should be present at every thing done
by thelpeasant secondly in order that he might
be fully convinced that the dog was really
mad, he, Mr.. Marochetti, 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.
| The peasant gave to his fourteen patients
strong decoction of the Summit and FL Ge-
nista Lutte Tinct oria," about pound and
half daily, and examined twice day under the
tongues, where, as he stated, small knots con-
tanning the poison OF the madness must form
| themselves. AS soon as these small knots ac-
tually appeared, and which Mr.. Marochetti
himself saw, they were opened and caute-
rized with red hot needle; after which the
patient gurgled with decoction of the ''Ge-
nista." The result of this treatment was that
all the fourteen (of whom only two, the last
bitten, did not show these knots) We're dis
missed cured at the end of six weeks, during
which time they drank this decoction. But
the little girl, who had been treated according
to the usual methods was seized with hydro
phobic symptoms on the seventh day, and was
dead in eight hours after they first took place.
4 The persons dismissed as cured were seen three
years afterwards by Mr.. Marochetti and they
were all sound and well.
Five years after this circumstance lin 1879
Mr. Marochetti had new opportunity in Po-
doio of confirming this important discovery.
The treatment of twenty six persons who had
there been bitten by mad dog was contided
to him; nine were men, eleven women, and
six children. He gave them at once a decoc-
. llOu vi dCulold, duQ uItlSeIl eAdUlIHd-
ton of their tongues gave the following result:
five men, all the women, and three children
had the small knots already mentioned; those
bitten worst on the third day, others on the
fifth, seventh, and ninth, and one woman, who
had been bitten but very specifically in the
leg only, on the twenty-first day. The other
seven also, who showed no small knots, drank
the ''Decoctum Genista" six weeks, and all
the patients were cured.
: In consequence of these observations, Mr.
Marochrtti believes that the hydraphobia poi
tson, after remaining short time in the wound
fixes itself for certain time under the tongue
at the openings of the ducts of the gandul. sub
maxeller, which are at each side of the tongue
string, and there forms those small knots il
which one may feel with probe fuctuatins
fluid, which is that hydrophobic poison. The
usual time of their appearance seems to be be
tween the third and ninth day after the bite
and ifthey are not opened within the frs
f twenty four hours after. their formation tht
poison is reabsorbed into the body, and the pa
;ient is lost beyond the power of cure For thi
reason Mr. Marochetti recommends that sucf