The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-07-30
HYDROPHOBIA.

NJ. Buisson has written to the Paris Academy Of
Sciences, to claim as his, small treatise on hydro
phobia addressed to the Academy so far back as
1885, and signed with single initial. The case re-
ferred to in that treatise was his own; the partca-
lars, and the mode of cure adopted, were as fol-
lows:
He had been called to visit woman who, for
three days. was said TO be suffering under this dis
ease. She had the usual ymptoms-constriction Of
the throat inability to swallows abundant secretion
of saliva, and foamng at the mouth. Her neighbors
said that she had been bitten by mad dog about
forty days before At her own urgent entreaties she
was bed, and died few hours after, as was ex-
pected.
NJ Buisson, who had his hands covered with
blood, incautiously cleansed them with towel
which had been used to wipe the mouth of the pa
tent. He then had an liberation upon one of his
fingers yet thought it sufficient to wipe off the saliva
that adhered, with little water. The ninth day af-
ter, being in his cabriolet, he was suddenly seized
with pain in his throat, and one still greater, in his
eyes. The saliva was continually pouring into his
mouth; the impression of current of air. the sight
of brilliant bodies, gave him painful sensation; his
body appeared to him light that he felt as though
he could leap to prodgious height he experienced,
he said, wish to and bite, not men but animals
and inanimate bodies. Finally, he drank with diff
Guilty, and the sight of water still more distress
ing to him than the pain in his throat These symp-
toms required every five minutes, and appeared to
him as though the pain commenced in the affected
finger, and extended thence to the shoulder
From the whole of the symptoms he Judged him
self afflicted with hydrophobia, and resolved to ter
inmate his life by sitting himself in vapor BATH
Having entered one for this purpose, he caused the
heat to be raised to 107 deg. SO Sec Fab when he
was equally surprised and delighted to find himself
free of all complaint. He left the bathing room well
dined heartily, and drank more than usual Since
that time he says he has treated in the same manner
more than eighty persons btten in four of whom the
symptoms had declared themselves, and in no case
has he failed except in that of one child seven years
DID, who died in the bath.
| The mode of treatment he recommends is, that
the person bit should take certain number of yapol
baths Commonly called Russan) and should induce
every night, violent perspiration, by wrapping him
self In hannels and covering himself with feather
bed; the Transportation is favored by drinking freely
of warm detection of sarsaparlla He declares
so convinced is he Of the efficacy of his mode O.
treatment that he will suffer himself to be inocuat
ed with the disease. AS proof of the utility of CO.
plous and continual perspiration he relates the fol
lowing anecdote:-A relative of the musician Gretry
was bitten by mad dog, at the same time witt
many other persons, who all died of hydrophobia.-
For his part, feeling the first symptoms of the dis
ease ne took to dancing night and day, saying thai
he wished to die gaily. He recovered.
NJ BuIsson also cites the old stories of dancins
| beng remedy fof the bite of tartantula: anf
draws attention to the fact, the animals in whom
this madness IS most frequently found to deveopeit
self spontaneously, are dogs, wolves and foxes
which never perspire.