Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-09-06
From the London Chronicle.

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Il SHOCKING TERMINATION TO MAR
IRIAeE.-A frightful case of hydropho-
bia is described in the Lyons (Franee)
journals, which, Il the facts are cor
lrectly stated, would go TO prove that
this malady can remain in the system
as much as four years without develop
ment. A young farmer named Peyron,
about twenty-five years of age, in the
department of the Rhine, was married
a few weeks ago to neighbor's daugh-
ter. The young couple had long been
attached to each other; but the parents
of the bride had refused their consent
on account of the strangeness of con-
duct occasionally observed in the young
man, who otherwise was a most desira-
ble match, his parents being compare
lively well of, and the son himself gen.
orally of exemplary conduct. His pas
sion for the girl became at length so
violent that he could not exist without
her, and his mother, fearing from his
manner that he meditated suicide, went
to the parents of the young woman,
and, after some entreaty. prevailed up
on them to agree to the match. Young
Peyron at once recovered his spirits,
the young woman was delighted, and
the marriage was celebrated with all the
rustic pomp and ceremony common in
that part of the provinces, concluding
with grand dinner and the inevitable
ball. The gayeties were kept up until
daylight, when the company separated.
The new married couple were lodged in
one wing of the farm house, separate
from the main building, but, in a short
time after they had retired, cries were
heard from the nuptial chamber. At
first they were unnoticed; but at length
they increased to fearful shrieks, and
the father and mother, alarmed, has
tened to the room, followed by the farm
servants. The cries were by the time
they arrived changed to scarcely audi
bic groans from the poor girl; and on
breaking open the door she was found !
in the agonies of death-her bosom
torn open and lacerated in the most hor- I
rible manner, the wretched husband in .
fit of raving madness and covered
with blood, having actually devoured a
portion of the unfortunate girls breast 4
A cry of horror burst forth from all
present, and he was dragged from the
room after most violent resistance, it
taking no less than six men to hold him
down. Aid was instantly sent for, and .
before the docter could reach the spot, (
the unhappy victim was no more
Young Peyron was put under treat
ment, and strait waistcoat was attemp-
ted to be put upon him, but his strug-
giles and screams were such that the
doctor, apprehensive that he would ex-
pire in the assistants hands, ordered
them to desist. The unfortunate man
had by this time become so weak that
he was easily conveyed to bed, and died
at o'clock in the afternoon of the same
day, without having for one moment
recovered his consciousness. 1t was
then recollected, in answer to searching
questions by physician, that some-
where about five years previously he
had been bitten by strange dog, and
taken the usual precautions against hy-
drophobia. But although the dog was
killed, it had not been satisfactorily
shown that it was really mad; and no
i'll consequences resulting from the bite,
his friends concluded that it would come
to nothing, and the incident had been
forgotten. 1t was consider
ed by the doctor that the circumstances
preceding the marriage and the excite
ment of the occasion itself had reused
the latent virus, which had so long lain
dormant in the blood, and led to the
terrible outbreak of frenzy which had
ended so tragically. On the medical
report being laid before the authorities,
The extraordinary nature of the case
excited much attention and
considerable controversy-the opinions
Of the heads of the profession being,
after full inquiry, that there was no hy-
lrophObia whatever in the case, but
-ooted insanity, and that it was shown
o exist by occasional abberrations of 7
he unfortunate young man as before
and that his diseased tenn
'erament and too violent passions, pow !
,rfully acted upon by the circumstances
ed to the fatal consequences narrated
lbove. This sad catastrophe has Civ
n rise to fierce medical controversy
n some of the professional journals, on h
he nature of hydrophobia, from which a
would appear that although instances
If remarkable cures of this frightful
nalady are often described in the jour c
lals, no authenticated account of its fa-
-orable termination is yet known in
france.
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