The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-02-23
remedy. Lee. us havealllthe informa

Messrs. Editors: sFfZ ~ 81
read with much interest a COM,
munieasion in your paper on the pre-
vention and cure of Hydrophobia,
from some party in Brooklyn, n. Y.
/ have the honor to ask you to pub
fish the following from a work pub
lished in 1880. and of which G.. s.
oRafnesque, A. M. --Ph. d., Professor
Of Botany, Natural History, &c., in
Transylvania University, KY, was the
author n When a remedy. is recon-,
mended foria disease So terrible, it is
a satisfaction to know there is atleast
some authority for its USE It is to
be hoped that any parties trying the
remedy, will report the result. Gould
not Some. experiments with animals
be made that would serve the inter
ests5 S 0fr SGisnGss,i and humanity
adj geb4e,sez IooIs-o B. Fl SABIN.
The REMEDYstr7 Ehe Seubellaria
,(seullcapA laterifora isdateflytbecome
famous as a cure and pfophylatlc
against hydrpphebiaa1 This apropefty
was discovered. by Dr.INandesveer4 to-
wards ,l772, Mheohas uEed itwithl the
utmost suocesss and'i is said toUhaTe
till 1915, period of his death.i pre-
vented $50 personsaaAd 1000 cattle
,froms becoming hydr6pke Bo1s5a after
being bitten by mad dogs His son is
statedlto, aa9elthus relieved or cured
40 pbrsonsuin three years. In. New
rN6rk and NewsJ ersey mahyden1pifics,
and someenlightened physicians have
Iaisoemployedit successfully: But sgy-
erali skeptical physicians have Since
denied altogether these facts, and pro-
nouhced the plant totally inert, be
cause it has no strong action on the
system, and has failed in their hands.
DraWll Barton and Dr. , Tully have
strenuously asserted this, but with
out Analysing the % plant, and
denying instead Of proving. This
plant has since been carefully
analyzedtby Cadet, il Paris, and found
to- contain many powerful chemical
principles which evince active prop
erties?i The dried plant gave one
fourth of soluble matter, and a very
active extract. The Substance in it,
by Cadet, were: i1stE, A yellow, green
eilt fixed and Soluble ID ether; I'd, a
bitter principle. Soluble IN water, al
cohol and ether, Sd, Schlorophylle,
4thJ peculiar volatile matter SMELL
ing and BLASTING, like the principle Of
adbiscofbdtfc plants; 5th,9 az al essen
tial- loils 9Th, album me- me; s7th a sweet
mucous sdbstances 9Th. a. peculiar
astfi8geht s principle; 9th, Eignine.
When burnt, 8 the ashes affords, the
chlorine Of Soda and seven other
saltsd 9If Isl therefore, prep6terqus to
deem suehaa plant inert. Tie facts al
readybelknowh prove tat it is
tonic, o astringeht, : antispaslhodic,,
and ntilhydrophoBic, at least.
ct has been used chiefly Of late in !
Iallnefvoas diseases, confulSions, te.-
tanus, st. Vitus' dance, remorss, &c. &C.,
and has iavaiIed IN mary instances.
In hydrophobia it APPEARS to be. a,
good prophylaStic3,i if not certain
cure. foA physician (Br. White Of /
Fishkill). bitten by mad dog, has
assured me that himself alone avoid
ed the disease BY using it., while
others, bitten by the same dog, died.
Many instances Of the same Kind are
on record nay. many that believe in
this property. say thai it never fails.
We lack, however, a series Of sciien-
tifc and conclusive q ex < leriimsnts, made
by well Informed men they have been
discouraged by the ridiculous denial
of skeptics, but let US hope may lily YET yet
be performed. The plant was used
fresh Or dry, in inflsionsr Of tea.
gil. four times a day. aid the plant
applied to the wound, A purgative
Of -four and sulphur is often given at
the same time This plat isapw al
most neglected, 1 likeTth1 aQuaapuds
phenlfe55q and alsiea plptagQ, which
enjoyed once a reputation for hydro-d
phobia; but we have so ieBapresumed1
remedies for this dreadful disease
and it iseso desirable +, oonfrmathe
properties those supposed availat
! BILE, that it is needfu to encourage
rather than discourage every attempt
to throw light on the abject. 9 :
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