Nebraska advertiser., 1860-11-01

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This anddote IS perfect and unfailing
The writer recommends the same treat
rnent for the bite of mad dogs. 81 should
at once fill the wound bite of a mad dog
with the strong Aqua Ammonia, and keep
the wound discharglng with it for some
weeks, at the same time giving it inter-
nally, so as to thoroughly impregnate the
system with it, r
DR.. Charles L. Barnett, an intelligent
and experienced physician, of Montgom-
cry county, Virginia, relates the follow
ing case, which is but one of many in
his practice:
A young lady, aud delicate female,
eyed eighteen, residing in the mountain
Gus regions of Virginia, went out with
party of friends after berries. Find.
ing the ground very slippery. they put
off their shoes. Arrived at the top OF
the mountain, she separated from her
companions, and was soon after bitten by
a rattlesnake on the foot. After walk
ing afew steps, and beginning to suffer
great pain, she sat down TO apply Ega-
ture below the knee, and found herself
unable to rise. Her comrads, hearing
her cries, came to her assistance, and
while one of them was sent for me, the
others prepared litter to carry her home
/ MY residence was distant twelve miles
On returning with the messenger, l met
the company at the foot of the hill, one
mile from the young lady's home. The
patient was perfectly blind and speechless;
all voluntary motion gone; not the Sigh
est ability to move finger or toe eyes
thoroughly bloodshot, weeping bloody
water; bloody fluid issuing from the
ears; gums bleeding; tongue not much
swollen, but hanging one and half inch
es out of the mouth, and blood troth Is
suing from the throat,
Mixing fifteen or twenty drops of the
Volatile spirits of Ammonia IN a gill of
water. poured it little by little down the
throat, the difficulty Of swallowing being
of course very great. This was Contin-
cd in small doses from half past one in
the afternoon, until ten at night, when
she was able to swallow freely, and had
regained her sight and senses. She was
then directed TO take fifteen drops in wo-
ter every fifteen minutes until six o'clock
the next morning. From that time / or
dered twenty drops of the remedy to be
taken three or four times day, for fif-
teen DAYS, and the bathing of the foot
which was black, and much swollen, three
times day in the ammonia diluted. I'm
der this treatment she was soon radically
cured" -
know a case which happened to boy
living near Frederick in Maryhud He
was bitten on the ankle by a comprehend
The whole leg, in few minutes, was
swollen almost beyond credibilty, This
case was cured effectually by the applica-
ton of Indigo and Whiskey tothe affec-
ted part, and by the patient drinking of
Ehogs's lard freely.
But the Rum or Whisky treatment ha:
its warm advocates. l will centent my.
self with but one authority-Dr. T. A
Achison. An account of the case / shal
auude 10. can be found in the Southerr
Medical Journal; ~ ~
DR.. A. found the young lady almos
moribound. pulse wavy and scarcely per
cepiihle. face swollen with besott7 q ex
preston. and mini wandering, the pupil.
of her eyes dilated and unable 10 see.
She daclared>n was dark, which wa
: not The Ease. She also faneied it wa
,, raining. though ii was calm and clear.-
: The lite wa~ upon the foot, and ty
deadly reptile"