Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-11-14
bia Cured-A Remark
able Healing Stone.

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able Healing Stone.
Some few weeks since there appeared il
the pnblic prints an account of the biting
by mad dog of the infant daughter o
Captain FL. r. Pease, Superintendent O.
| Public Education for the State of Missis
sippi A letter from the young mother
giving an account of the singular treat
ment by the application of the "Mad
Stone y has been received. We give the
following extract:
! On the 25th of July, Emma was bitter
/ by a mad dog. (She is well now.) Cap
| tain was not with us down the coast, and
! as soon as / could communicate with him
l did so by telegraph. He came to us i'm.
mediately, and we took Emma on the next
train to Holly Springs, in the northern
part Of the State, to a doctor who makes
hydrophobia speciality. He has what is
called a maidstone" We had no faith in
it, but everybody here seemed to believe in
it firmly; and as physicians could not at
tempt cure, we went to the stone; -
We reached there six days after the child
was bitten, and the places had nearly heal
ed up. The doctor took off the dried seal
and applied the stone. He said: elf the
stone stuck to the wound the dog was mad;
if it did not, we might fear nothing, the
dog was not mad'' The stone stuck to
the wound about fifteen hours. In about
three hours after it was applied, the smell
from the bitten finger and from the stone
was worse than any putrid flesh one could
imagine, and her breath and perspiration
all smelled the same. Previous to the APP
plicatiOn Of the stone no odor existed about
her OF the stone. Her bowels commenced
to run off Immediately, and after the stone
had been applied and fallen off itself from
both bites she had only one offensive oper-
alton from the bowels, and that was about
half an hour after the doctor pronounced
cure. So, whatever there is about the
stone, it did work wonderfully on the child.
There have been 1852 cases of mad dog
andfsnake bites cured beyond asdoubt by
this same stone. No one can tell what we
suffered until the critical time, nine days,
passed; and even now I feel very anxious
about her. Hydrophobia is such a terri
BILE thing I can't bear to think Of it.
The dog was a small species OF black-and
tan. | saw the first symptoms of madness
and watched the dog all through his
spasms, and could not be mistaken, though
tried to think it only a fit. [ Try yet to
think it only fit, but the action of the
stone gave evidence that the dog was
rabld.
SLEEPING IN COLD RooAls.-'Han's s:
Journal of Health' says that cold bed
chambers always imperil health and invite
fatal disease. Robust persons may safely
sleep in temperature of forty degrees or
under, but the old, the infant, and the
frail, should never sleep in a room where
the atmosphere is much under fifty de-
grees Fahrenheit.
All know the danger of going direct in
to the cold from warm room. Very few
rooms, churches, theatres, and the like are
ever warmer than seventy degrees. If it is
freezing out Of doors it is thirty degrees
the difference being forty degrees more
Persons will be chilled by such d change in
ten minutes although they may be active
ly walking.
But to lie still in bed, nothing to promote
the circulation, and breathe for hours an
atmosphere of forty and even fifty degrees,
when the lungs are always at ninety-eight,
is too great a change Many persons wake
up in the morning with Inflammation of
the lungs, who went to bed well. and are
surprised that such is the case. The cause
may often be found in sleeping in a room
the windows of which had been feolishly
hoisted for ventilation. The watercure
journals of the country have done an meal
culable injury by the blind and indiscrimi-
nate advice of hosting windows at night.
The rule should be everywhere during
the part Of the year when fires are kept
burning, to avoid hosting outside WIN
dows. 1t is safer and better to leave the
chamber door open, as also the fireplace
then there is a draft up the chimney, while
the room is not so likely to become cold.
If there is some fire in the room all night
the window may be opened an inch. 1t is
safer to sleep in a bad all all night with q
temperature over fifty, than in a pure ali
with temperature under forty. The bad
air may sicken you but cannot kill you
the cold all can and does kill very often.