Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-23
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truths about which men are incredulous.
This is an age of unbelief-extreme un-
belief. We make out to or edit our own
existence by our analogy to other ami
mails which do exist. We are worse than
lphilos ophers, who only contend for at
tributes with them, cause Of existence
lis left ia the dark where it belongs-we
attempt to account for causes, or deny
their effects. we require that every
thing be accounted for by the fairest
reasoning: all we see must be proven 70
exist, it must have tail TO it, that we
can seize hold on, and cry out ''here's
the fountain head of naked truth y and
all we feel must be hairy like Esau all
We hear, and all we taste and smell must
have the hocus pocus scent of reality
with the great seal of @. E. D. upon it..
Such requirements 10 establish our faith
may be well enough in many respects,
but for everything in nature, and every
effect caused, TO be accounted for upon
Iphilosophic conclusions in order TO merit
belief, are the merest whims worse
than the extremes of the ancients whose
thousand gods exercised omnipotent rule
over word, thought, and act Of the hui
man family. All acknowledge the eff
fects of opium upon the system, and the
effects Of that class Of drugs known as
local remedies, but of the particular erase
achy they SO operate, no man knoweth !;
yet, we all have faith in their operations,
for we judge Of them by experience
Then, better guide to truth than phi
losophy, is experience, which errs less,
and has fewer absurdities.
The matter we are about to present
for consideration, is one having substan-
tial experience without philosophic rca-
soning, upon which to predicate its claims
for attention. The same might be said
of most remedies paraded in medical dis
pensatories. This, however, is one Of
that class denied place in any catalogue
.of cnratiyes it is set aside as a RENE
dy belonging to the cages of supersti-
tion," although its extraordinary virtues
are more than suspected by persons Ia.
WIG g the competency and the oppor,uni-
ties for judging. 1t has no technical
name taken from dead language, but
one which conveys an idea of its maieri-
al and use in our own language: it is
called .taQd Stone. We re not to be I'M
kerstood as vouching for its being reli-
able remedy for the disease known as
modaess, but as claiming for it some de-
gree of attention upon the experience of
those who assert its merits.
Two or three weeks ago the Potosi
Republican, noticed that Mr.. WasH1Ne
rol ELLIS, Of Boice Prairie, had in his
possession Mad Stone, with snndry
particulars in reference to how he came
by it, and its virtues. We had heard no
report of mad dogs in the country, and
did not copy the notice. We present
the following circumstances however, as
since coming to our knowledge from Mr..
EDMUND HARRISON, well known to ma
ny of our readers as reliable authority.
He collected the facts in the neighbor-
hood, where the stock and Mr.. Bowen
were bitten by mad dog some weeks
ago:
About six weeks ago several head of
stock in the Platte neighborhood were
bitten by dog, supposed to be mad.--
Mr.. ABRAHAM Bowen Of that vicinity
was also bitten severely in the hand.-
Three weeks afterwards, the stock died.
Mr.. Bowen becoming alarmed, applied
to Mr.. ELLIS for his Mad Stone. The
wound had healed over bit continued to
give him severe pain. After scarifying
the wound, the stone was applied. 1t
adhered-iEdeed there seemed to be an
attraction between the stone and woun-
ded part similar 10 the attraction between
magnet and iron. When separated, a
blush matter appeared on the stone, CO.
vering so much of the surface as had
come in contact with the wound. The
stone was then placed in hot water, when
the matter separated from it, and appear
ed on the surface Of the water. The
operation, after the manner described,
was repeated nineteen times with SINH
lar effects, the quantity of poison abstrac-
led diminishing with each application un-
Ill little could be perceived, when the
stone no longer adhered to the wound.
The operation was made in the pres
ence of several persons, in whose vera
city for truth, Mr.. HARRISON has the
fullest confidence. At the last account $
1 Mr.. Bowen had experienced no unplea.
SAINT symptoms, and had entire confidence