The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-08-24
Cure for Hydrophobia.

DR.. Buisson, says the Salute Public
Of Lyons, claims to have discovered
remedy for this terrible disease, and to
have applied it with complete success in
many cases. In attending female pa
tient in the last stage of canine rabies,
the doctor imprudently wiped his hands
with a handkerchief impregnated with
her saliva. There happened to be a
slight abrasion on the index finger Of
the left hand, and, confident 10 his own
curative system, the doctor merely
washed the part with water. However,
he was fully aware of the imprudence
he had committed, and gives the follow
ing account Of the matter afterwards:
believing that the malady would not
declare itself until the fortieth day, aud
having numerous patients to visit, /
put off from day to day the application
Of my remedy; that is to say, vapor
baths. The ninth day, being 10 my
cabinet, I felt all at once a pain in the
throat and still greater one in the
eyes. My body seemed so light that l
felt as if l could jump to prodigious
height, or that, if threw myself out of
window, l could sustain myself in the
air. My hair was so sensitive that l
appeared able to count each separately
without looking at it. Saliva kept con,
tinually forming in the mouth. Any
movement of air inflicted great pain on
me, and was obliged to avoid the sight
Of brilliant objects; l had continual
desire to run aud bite, not human be,
iDgs, but animals, and all that was neal
me. l drank with difficulty, and re
marked that the sight of water distress
ed me more than the pain in the throat
| believe that by shutting the eyes am
one suffering under hydrophobia car
always drink. The fits came on ever,
FIVE minutes, and l then felt the pail
start from tue index finger and run u
the nerves to the shoulder.
"In this state, thinking that m
course was preservative and not cura
tive, took vapor bath, not with tn
intention of cure, but of sufocatin
myself. When the bath was at a hea
of 93 degrees 3 minutes 5 seconds Fab
renheit, oil the symptoms disappeare
as if by magic, and since then l hav
never felt anything more of them.
have attended more than eighty person
/ bitten by mad animals, and I have no
. lost a single case. When a person ha
been bitten by mad.dog, he must 70
seven successive days take vapor bat
a Ia RusSe, as it is called, of 81 to 6
degrees. This is the preventative rem
edy. When the disease is declared,
only requires one vapOr bath, rapid
, increased to 81 degrees Contigrad
3 then slowly to SO degrees; the patier
+. must strictly cou6ue himself to b
r chamber until the cure is complete"
c Dr.. Buisson mentions several 9th,
curious facts. An American had bee
3 bitten by rattlesnake about eigl
3 leagues from home; wishing to die
the bosom Of his family, he ran II
Q greater part of the way home, an,
. going to bed, perspired profusely, al
r the wound healed as any simple Gu
q The bite of tho tarantula is cured |
IS the exercise of dancing, the free persp
$ ration dissiPatiug the virus. Ifa your
o child be vaccinased and then be maj
9 to take a vapOr bath, vaccine does n
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