Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1851-07-16
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Dicovcry.

We find the following among the miscellaneous
selections of the Charlestown Is. C.) Mercury. lift
is an authentic statement worthy of cIedence, the
information which it discloses is of grave import
ance not only TO the medical faculty, but the whole
human family. That the Academy Of Science should
have treated with disregard so long is perhaps at
tributable to its having been anonymously comrnu-
ncaled =
M Busson has written TO the Paris Academy of
Sciences, to claim as his, a 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 the treatise his own. The particu-
lars and the mode adopted, were rs follows: lie
had been called to visit woman, who fer three DAYS
was said to be suffering under this dsease.-She had
The usual symptoms, obstruction of the throat in
ability TO swallow, abundant secretion of saliva and
toaming at the mouth. Her neighbors said she had
been bitten by mad dog, about forty DAYS before.
At her own urgent entreaties she was bed and died
a few hours afterwards us was expected y.
M Buisson. who had his hands cnvered Aivitis
blood Incautlotsly ceansed them, with towel which
had been used to wipe the mouth of the PATIENT
lie then had an liberation Of his fingers vet
thought sufficient TO wipe off the saliva that adj
hered with little water The ninth day after, be-
ing in his cabrolet, he was suddenly seized with a
pain in his throat, and one still greater in his eyes,
The saliva was continually pouring ont his mouth
the impression OF current of ar, the sight of brill
liant bodies gave him powerful sensation, his body
appeared to him so light that he felt though he
could leap TO prodigious height. lie experienced
lie said wish to run and bite, not men but ANNA Is
aud animated bodies Finally he drank with diff
Guilty, and the sight of water still more distress
ing to him than the pain in his throat. The symp-
toms REQUIRED every five minutes, and it appeared
10 him as though the pain commenced in the affected
finger und extended thence TO his shoulder.
From the whole of the symptoms, he Judged him
self afflicted with the hydrophoba and resolved TO
terminate his life by sitting himscfi in vapor bath
Having entered one he caused the heat to be raised
to one hundred and seventy degrees thrty-sX min
utes Fahrenheit, when he was both surprised and
delighted to find himself free of all complaint. lie
left the bathing WELL dined heartily and drank
more than usual Since that time, he SAYS he has
treated in the same manner more than eighty per.
sons bitten, in four of whom the symptoms had de
clared themselves, and in no case has he failed eX
Cept that of one child seven years old, who died il
the bath The mode of treatment lie recommend:
is, to take certain number of tapor baths, (com
monty called Russian) and induce every night VIC
lent perspiration by wrapping himself in flannes
and covering himself with feather bed the per
spiration is favored by drinking freely of warm de
coction Of sarsaprila.
lie declares, so convinced is he of the efficacy o
his mode of treatment, that he will suffer to be in
oculaed with the disease. As proof of the utility
of copouS and continual perspiration, he relates The
following anecdotc =
relative of the musician Greiy was bitten by
mad dog, at the same time with many other per
sons; who all died with hydrophobia. For his part
feeling the symptoms of the disease, he took dane
ing night and day, saying that he wished to die gay
He recovered. NJ. Buisson also cites the old siorie
of dancing being remedy for the bite of Il arantu
la, and draws attention to the fact that the anipel
develope itself spontaneously are dogs, wolves
foxes, who never perspire.'