Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-08-04
A Mad Stone How HydrephebIa
Cured.
From the Joliet (Ill.l Republican. July 0.

From the Joliet (lll) Republican July O.
On Sunday, June 26, George III. Jacobs
and wife, of Holdermsn's Grove, Kendall
county, IN this state, were bitten BY mad
dog They owned the dog, chained him,
and he died on the following Tuesday;
hence there could be no mistake about his
being rabid, and they then realized their
terrible position. Having heard of some
person at or near Morris that had long be-
fore been bitten and Was cured by the ap-
plication of "mad stone," Mr.. Jacobs at
once started to find him for the purpose OF
ascertaining the location OF the stone, &c.
He found that it was owned and kent by J.
p. Evans. in Lincoln, Logan county, Ill.
He mt once took the train for Lincoln, ar
irving there on Thursday morning after he
was bitten, and the stone was tried. He
then tried to telegraph from Lincoln to
his wifo. at Morris, TO come TO
him. Tho agent informed him that
Morris was IN an opposition line and
that they would not receive messages that
were TO be sent over that line. The nature
and Object of the dispatch were explained,
and pay for the transmission rendered, vet
the agent said he would not send it, and
there was no use of his talking any more
about it. Mr.. Jacobs had no other alterna-
which he did, after making Arrangements
with Mr.. Evans to meet him here in Joliet
with the stone. On Monday MIR. Jacobs
came, and on Tuesday evening last Uen
days after the bite) Mr.. Evans came and
made five applications. The stone is
small, being about one inch and half
long, nearly one inch thick and perhaps
one inch wide at the place of its greatest
width, and seeming almost as porous as
hopeycomb. When removed from the
wound it emits an odor similar to that of
q dead snake, only more rank and nause-
ous. On the first and second applications,
of about twenty minutes each, Mrs. Jacobs
says she did not feel any sensation other
than she would have felt had any other
hard substance been placed on her hand,
but the third application of the stone drew
so hard that it was actually painful to
bear, and when taken off left the impress
sion of the pores of the stone ON her
Anglers. When the stone is taken from
the wound ii is placed in water for
about the same length of time that it
remains on the bite. Mr.. Evans says that
the stone was brought from Wales, by his
great grandfather to Virginia, and by his
grandfather to Kentucky, and his father
brought it to this state forty years ago. |
At his fathers death, twenty-one years ago,
10 came into his possession, and since then |
he has applied it to over one thousand diff |
ferent cases, and always with perfect sue
,ess, except in one instance that ofJohn |
Bennington, of Minonk, in Woodford Co.,
eleven years ago. He was frightfully |
from his elbows to the ends of |
,is fingers, and no application was made
Until he had the disease. Then, by reason
If their being so many wounds, and it |
'eing SO long, (three weeks) after he was
,itten, the poison seemed to accumulate
IS fast as the stone could draw it ont The
nan would be rational as long as the stone
vas applied to any of his wounds, but as
Don as it was removed to be cleansea, he
would take a ft, and SO he continued-ra-
ional when the stone was on, and raving
nad when Of, until he died. Mr.. Evans
annot tell how the properties of the stone
Tere discovered, nor how long they have
een known and in use. 1t has besn IN his
WI and his ancestors family for about
wo hundred years.