Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-01-30
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The following is from the miscellaneous se-
leciions OF The Charleston Is. C,l Mercury.-
Ii il is an authentic statement, and M. Buisson
is person worthy ofcredence The information
which it discloses is of grave importance, moi
only 10 the medical faculty, but 10 the whole
human family. That the Academy of Sciences
should have treated il with disregard so long is,
perhaps Attributable 10 lis having been annoy-
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M. Buisson has written to The Paris Acad.
emy of Sciences, to claim as his small trea-
tise on hydrophobla, addressed TO The Acade-
my so far back as 1885, and signed with a sin
gle initial. The case referred 10 in lha. lreallse
was his own. The particulars and the mode
OF cure adopted. were as follows He had
been called 10 visit a woman who, for three
days, was said TO be suffering under This dis
ease. She had the usual symptoms, consrric.
ton Of the throat, inability 10 swallow, abun-
dant secretion of saliva, and foamlng a, the
mouth. Her neighbors said she had been bit.
ten by mad dog, about forty days before. A.,
her own urgent enlrea,es she was bled, and
died few hours after as was expected
"M. Buisson, who had his hands covered
with blood, incauiously cleansed them with a
towel which had been used 10 wipe the mouth
Of the patient. He then had an liberation up
on one of his fingers, yet ,houghr i, sufficien,
10 wipe off the saliva that adhered with a llle
wafer. The ninth day, after being in his ca
briolet, he was suddenly seized with pain in
his throat, aud one sill greater in his eyes
The saliva was continually pouring into his
mouth the impression OF curren, Of air. The
sigh, Of brilliant bodies. gave him painfal SEN
salion; his body appeared to him SO light that
he felt as though he could leap 10 a prodigous
height. He experienced, he said, wish TO
ron and bite, no, men, but animals and inanima,e
bodies. Finally, he drank with difficulty, and
and The sight Of water was still more distress
ing 10 him than the pain in the throat. These
symptoms recurred every 6se minutes, and it
appeared 10 him as though the pain commenced
in The affected finger and extended thence TO
the shoulder .se
From the whole of The symptoms, he
judged himself afflicted with hydrophobia, and
resolved TO terminate his life by sitting himself
in vapor bath. Having entered one for this
purpose, he caused the hea, 10 be raised TO one
hundred and seventy degrees thirty six min
ules Fahrenheit, when he was equally surprised
and delighted 10 find himself free Of all COM
plsinl He left The balhingroom we'll, dined
heartily, and drank more than usual. Since
tha. time, he says. he has treated in the same
manner more Than eighty persons bitten, in
four OF whom the symptoms had declared them
selves and in no case has he failed, except in
that of child seven years old, who died in the
balh. The mode of treatment he recommends
is. that the person bi, should take certain
number of vaPor baths, commonly called Rus
sian,) and should induce every night violent
perspiraion, by wrapping himself in fannes,
and covering himself with feather bed {; the
-perspiraion is favored by drinking freely Of
warm decocIon Of sarsapariIla.
I {" H declares, so convinced is he Of the ef.
fcacy Of his mode Of treatment, that he will
suffer himself TO be inocua,ed with the disease.
AS proof Of The utility Of copious and conln-
-ual perspiraiion, he relates The following anec-
doie: A relative OF the musician Gretury was
bitten by mad dog, at the same time with
many other persons, who all died Of hydro
phobia. For his part, feeling the symptoms Of
the disease, he took 10 dancing night and day,
saying that he wished TO die gaIIy. He re-
covered, NJ. Buisson also ciles The stories Of
dancing being remedy for the bite Of a taran-
tula, and draws attention 10 the fact that the
animals in which this madness is most fre-
quenily found to develope itself spontaneously.
are dogs, wolves, and foxes, which never per.
spire" ...s.