Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-06-15
SINGULAR CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA.
4 Man Becomes Mad almost Daily for
nearly Twenty Years-DIscoyery of a Pre-.
yrntiye OF the Disease.

| nearly Twenty yYrars-Discovery of n Pre-.
| ycntiye of the Disease.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer, June 81
A remarkable case of hydrophobia came tc
our nOwledge a few days ago, and may be OF
interest, inasmuch as it suggests the possibility
| Of cure.
| Almost twenty years ago, n man named
Clarke, who resides in James own, Ky, a lite
4 town about three miles from this city. was bit
ton by dog which proved to be rabid, and in
| a short time afterward he was taken with the
most violent symptoms of that terrible disease.
| The malady which, as is we'll known. some
| times exists in the system a number of years
| one or two cases arc known of twenty years
| standing-befOre it makes its appearance in all
| its violence, did not, in this instance. prove
| Immediately fatal. and by the excrtions of his
physicians and his friends, the SpasInS were for
n short time delayed, and the patient regained
| a good degree of health.
few days however, only elapsed when he
again perceived recurrence of his disposition
to bite AID snap, together with the hatred of
water, and spasmOdic contraction of the throat
by which the disease is characterized and
looked a severe and much more violent attack k
than the first. during which even the physicians
who attended him gave up the case rs hopeless.
and left him to die
BY some means, however this fact came to
the knowledge of some person who had heard
from what source we cannot telI-that n medi-
cine known to Botanic Physician as the Third
Preparation, had been found beneficial in such
cases, and he was recommended to try it, His
friends, who had no hope that he would be
saved, at first thought it would be kindness to
allow death 10 end his misery, and refused TO
make any attempt to further prolOng an exis-
tence which, if preserved, could only keep all
by whom he was surrounded in constant fear of
being contaminated, and in danger of violence
from their parent and friend
After much deliberation, they at length con-
cluded to try the experiment. and procured
some OF the medicine we have named. which il
composed Ofcapsicum and the tinctureS of lobe
liza and myrrh, and making it very strong of
the tincturcS gave it to him in sufficient doses
to produce a thorough cmcSis lie threw from
his stomach large quantity of frOthy mucus
and from that moment the spasmS ceased, and
there was also a relief from the other more
prominent symptoms Of the disease. He gradu-
ally grew better this treatment continued
and at length became able TO attend to his du-
ties, which he has done with but slight inter-
missions ever since.
Almost every day. although we believe. he
has not been at any time confined to his bed
there has been recurrence of the disease
which, however, had been promptly checked
by the same means which wrought such a
miraculous change in the first instance He
now attends to his business daily and when
this contraction of the throat makes its appear
anee he doses imselflargely with the prepara-
tiOn, which he keeps continually about him.
and immediately upon this discharge from the
stomach becomes well
Among the numerous cases Of this terrible
disease: which occur every season in large
CITIES, where no prospect is left for the escape
OF the sufferer from what is even more To be
feared than death itself if one could be thus
saved all the writhing agony and pain of even
one day which is spent at the mercy of those
spasms, which are its peculiarity. our purpose in
making this publication will have been attained
The story, as we have related it, is strictly
true IN every particular, and, as the medicine
may be obtained at almost any drug store i'm
the country, its use may prevent great deal
OF suffering, and probably save many life. At
all events the case is worthy of note, as showing
that although the virus may not be entirely
graduated from the system, it at least may be
controlled in its effects