The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-07-02
WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY.
Vigilance tho Price OF Safety.

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
We have had enough talk about this dog ques-
ton. Let US have acti0n-de1nite and immediate.
AS the matter stands, 1t is like man bleeding to
death from q cut artery, while the doctors are
wrangling over the proper method OF taxing 1t up.
Let have done with this senseless talk of human
ity and let the homeless and friendless ours be
poisoned. drowned or disposed OF at once. II Mr..
Bergh, our ubiquitous champion Of the oppressed,
chooses to experiment upon the ours, can see no
reason why the slaughter OF the friendless should
be interrupted and human lives endangered by
stupid interference in matter with which,
while the law invests him with authority,
there Is necessity for action on his part. Talk
seems to be the limit OF these experimental hui
man geniuses, whereas IN thirty minutes the mat
the sand club is the proper method Of administer.
ing the quietus. Let them choose their method at
once and relieve the city OF the worthless ours In
testing 1t SO that one may permit his children to
rOmp In the street without danger, or necessity
(Which is always the mother OF inventory will
oblige US to 90 armed, like the knights OF old, and
general Fourth OF July and a massacre OF unmuz-
zed dogs VIII be the result
TO conclude, less talk, more powder and exter-
mlnatlOn 10 the dangerous dog Will suit,
NEW YORK, June 80 1874. Fl. V. B.
The Ultimatum of Homeopathic.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
would respectfully beg leave to announce
through your columns the views OF homGopath.
trabtes cannd. 1t affords nearly all of the educated
homeopathic fraternity vast deal Of amusement
to read the opinions OF medical men who assert
that 1.-The disease is incurable." Better to say
they are 'too ignorant Of its pathology to treat 1t
successfully" Now, in reality, hydrOphObia is no
more incurable than the simplest affection human
nesh is heir to. Any skilful homeopathic physi-
clan can successfully combat it without the slight
experience in Its particular action hey ond his
dfaQnOSfH a
though It may seem to SAVIOR Of eeotism toward the
nanlemann school Is, nevertheless, true, and
OF my brethren as may not be familiar with the
mode OF procedure In cases OF rabies, would in
atrOpta oe,ladonna, and not the alkaloid Of the
plant (atrOplne, as used recently, with poor
Il the case Sc. Of man bitten in NY
used in conjunction In cases OF the milder
type. The antidote will never fail II judicously
administered, and IT. IS to be hoped that the syc0-
phancy OF the aOpathlsts will no longer prevent
them from saving the lives which may be placed
IN slightly poisonous doses at intervals of seven
minutes in severe ca es and diminished as the
symptoms disappear. For the lnture let us trust
teat the creduty OF the public will not be imposed
upon by the Old tune OF "Incurable."
BUsHwIcK, June %, 1874 HOMEOPATH.
The vapor Bath as a Remedy.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALp:-
The vapor bath remedy, in which DR.. A. NJ. L.
Hamilton processes to believe, has been tried in
some 100 or more cases OF hydrophoba and in no
iust in which it ever tried has 1t failed to
effect an entire cure. Many cases OF rattesnake
bite have been cured by copious sweating Of the
victim produced by other means than the vapor
BATH and a much larger number Of such cases by
heavy doses Of alcohol, mbibed In the form OF
whiskey, brandy or rum soon alter the receipt OF
the bite. A valuable pointer which, though not
my property, was q particular friend and daily
companion OF mine, being severely bitten by q
rattlesnake, was compelled to swallow immedi-
atey about q pint OF whskev--all there was at
hand. He was very drunk and sick generally for
the remainder o the day, but aw0ke next morning
apparently IN perfect health. Very soon 1t became
evident that his hearing mad been greatly impaired
by either the snake poison or its antldOte. For
several years thereafter he continued TO accom-
pany me almost daily, and, except that he re-
NAMED semi-dea, was IN every respect the equal
Of his former self. But in no case OF hydrophobja
ip which narcotic pofsons have been administered
to mitigate the PATIENTS suffering has the victim
JAILED to die within iortyelght hours oil the admin
istratiOn or such ''relief"
While the foregoing statements remain undis-
puted-and they might easily be disproved II they
were not true-is 1t not an infamous outrage on
humanity and common sense that the well known
hydrophobia should be denied the simple remedies
and forced to submit to scientific course OF drug
ging that can only result In the patients death
To- grant the sufferers prayer, to be .'pnt out Of
his misery" by drugging him to death, would
be merciul II 1t we're not altogether probable that
by causing him to sweat profusefy he would be
speedily cured II the learned doctors OF this city
will not stoop to single trial of the latter treat
ment whore q human life Is at stake, beg leave to
suggest that they may at least take a step IN the
right direction by experimenting for cure on the
dogs. or two dogs bitten by the same rabid AMI
mai let the one be well dosed with whskey at
once, and again, II need be, when symptoms OF by
drophobia have begun to develop, and let the
other receive the most scientific treatment that
would have been accorded doomed man or
woman. or two horses In the agonies OF hydro.
phObia let the one be given vapor bath and
the other the customary injections OF morphine
&c. When sweating and alcohol have been proved
sure cure for the brute creation to the satsfac-
ton OF our eminent New York physicians perhaps
they will permit their human patients suffering
rom rabies to be cured on plan which Is none
the less reliable for being at present wholly I'M
known to their practice. G. Il 5.
NEW YORK, June q, 1874.