Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-09-09
Is Hydrophobia Durable.

AS uasual at this season OF the year,
newspapers and medical journals are fire.
o%uently recording deaths from this most
horrible disease and as usual new RENE
dies and old specifics are put forward al
most every week with an assurance on
the part of their discoveries or publish
ers than can only be predicted on pro-
found ignorance Of the subject.
The Winchester qlD Chronicle publish.
es an account of the death of q little girl
in that place. In this case the modern
remidies, opium and %chloroform, were ad-
ministered in large quantity without any
beneficial effect.
The National InteVigencer puts Onward
spirits of hartshorn as o certain cure =
The writer of course is unacquainted
with the fact that it is an old and explo-
ded remedy, the medical profession hay
ing tried it a thousand times and found
it wanting in every ease. The writer as
sures US that it has been extensively
tried in Brazil, and always with success.
Whatever may have been It's effects IN
Brazil, We have no faith it would cure IN
North America /; and as to the Brazilian
cures-we don't believe . word about
them.
Again, we have an infailible aPecihc
coming all the way from Russia. 1t is
certified by a long array Of learned
names. 1t is the common rose beetle
~lcetonia a~urata), administered in the form
of powder. 4 celebrated physician, M.
LevsehoG, is said to cure men and ami
mails with the greatest ease and uniform
success. But direct and positive as is
this testimony, we more than doubt every,
thing about it. 1t is not many years
since the skalleap, a mild disploretic herb
of inst about as much virtue or potency
as catnip or sage tea, was Endorsed oy
medical men IS q specific. 1t. too, vas
said, on the best authority, 10 cqre IN
every case. But now thore is act 2 phys
ician in Christendom who would tblsk
of prescribing it.
Dr. I. murphy, . paoria. Ill, has late
" published q lengthy Communication in
the Daily Transcript, on this Subject
He takes the ground that hydropAobia is
not durable by any means known to the
profession. He declares that no recov-
ery has eyer been known, and in rela.
ton to various specifics his language is /:
EVERY species of treatment which sci
ence and ingenuity could suggest, has
been tried with not a particle Of inaueneeI
in arresting the progress Of the terrible
malady. Of the thousand Of we'll anthem
ticated cases which have occurred, there
is not a single instance in which any Spe-
cies of treatment either cured in disease
or produced the slightest alienation Of,
the symptoms,
This is strong language, and II true,
ought to put an end forever to tho meth
DDS of treatment which are 30 generally
resorted to-bleeding, alcohol, opium,
calomel, st~rychnine, c~hloroform, and
other powerful poisons.
5 We woald, however, remind Dr..
Murphy that there 10 on record one case
of recovery. DR.. Good, in his study of
Medicine" gives the particulars OF Q case,
in which the patient, a woman, was kept
several hours in a tub of water, and the
result was, the spaslns disappeared and
did not return. DR.. Good did not sus-
pect there was any relation between the
prolonged bath and the recovery OF the
patient. He merely mentioned the cir
cumstances as a remarkable incident,
and seemed to wonder that the water did
not kill Aer,
Now, as all the patients are under
medical treatment, and as one case has
recovered under water treatment, shonfd1
not the medical profession find o hint
here that possible there is in water the
agency which the system needs to enable
it successfully to eliminate the deadly
from the system.-Life illustrated.