Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-07-05
HydrOphODia.7

We find the following among the miscellaneous
selections of the Charleston rs. C.) Mercury.-
1t is an authentic stateme and Mr.. Busson is a
person worthy of credence, the information which
it dscloses is Of grave Importance, not only to the
medical faculty, but to the whole human family.
That the Academy of Sciences should have treat
ed it with disregard so long, is perhaps attributa-
bic to its having been anonymously communca-
ted ..-....-.. .rr.. s.r -..
"Mr. Buissoh has written to the Paris Acade-
my so far back as 1885, and signed with a single
initial. The case referred to in that treaties was
his own. The particulars and the mode of cure
adopted, were as follows He had been called
to visit woman who, for three days, was said to
be suffering under this disease. She had the usu-
al symptoms, construction of the throat, inability
to swallow, abundant secretion of saliva, and
foaming at the mouth. Her neighbors said she
had been bitten by mad dog about forty days be-
fore. At her own urgent entreaties, she !. was
bled, and died few hours after, as expected. q,
Mr.. Buisson who had his hands covered with
blood, incautiodsly ceahsed them with a towel
which had been used to wipe the mouth of the pa
tient. He then had an liberation upon one Of
his fingers, yet thought it sufficient to wipe off the
saliva that had adhered, with little water. The
ninth day after, being in his cabrioet,he was sud
denly seized with a pain in his throat, and one
still greater in his eyes. The saliva was contin-
ually pouring into his mouth; the impression OF o
current of air. the sight of brilliant bodies, gave
him painful sensation his body appeared to
him SO light that he felt as though he could leap
to prodigious height l&EGaa a.l
n'F He experienced, he said, wish to run and
/ bite, not men. but animals and inanimate bodies
!" Finally, he drank with difficulty, and the sight
of water was still more distressing to him than
the pain of the throat. These symptoms recur.
red every five minutes, and it appeared to him as
though the pain commenced in the affected finger
! and extended thence to the shoulder @ 3aM
From the whole of the symptoms, he judged
himself afflicted with hydrophobia, and resolved
to terminate his life by sitting himself in vapol
bath. Having entered one for that purpose, he
caused the heat to be raised to one hundred ant
seventy deg thirty-sx min. Fahrenheit, wher
he was equally surprised and delighted te
find himself free of all complaint He left tht
bathng-room well, dined heartily, and drank more
than usual. Since that time, he says, he ha
treated in the same manner more than eighty per
SONS bitten, in four of whom the symptoms ha
declared themselves; and in no case has he failed
+ except in that of a child, seven years old, VIII
died in the bath. The mode of treatment he re
commends is, that the person bit should take
certain number Of vapor baths, Commonly calle
Buisson,) and should induce every nightia violen
perspiration, by wrapping himself in fiannels, an
> covering himself with feather bed; the persp
ration is favored by drinking freely of awarm de
3 coction of sarsapariila. He declares, SO cor
vinced is he Of the efficacy of his mode Of trea
: ment that he will suffer himselfto be innoculate
with the disease. As proof Of the utility Of c'
pious and continual perspration, he relates u
: following anecdote A relative Of the mnsicia
y Gretzy, was bitten by mad dog, ct the same tim
u with many other persons, who died of hydroph
bia. For his part, feeling the first symptoms
8 the disease, took to dancing night and day, sa
ing thai re wished to die gaily,e He recovered
I'm. Busson also cites the old stories of dancil
Is being "a remedy for'the7 bite of a tartula; al
draws attention to the fact that the animals
a-twhich this madness IS most frequently found
Il develop itself spontape peously, are dogs, wolves
I. foxes, (which never perspire5'tf Assssahs il
I'll ..,e.a7s letfa Tue
in, =, ONE OF PApDY's EsTs--Whereas, Patrick
ie Connor lately,left his lodgings, this'is to g
ID notice, that II he does not return immediate
tlE II x. for Iihn On mo he will he advartiz ad