Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-08-18
AZURE roR nYDROpHoRIA.
, ane Gray awisSh elm in the Role Of
u Medical lntelligenccr.

y ane gray SWssShelm ia the ISOlc OF
Medical lntelligcnccr.
Mrs Jane Grey Swisshelm writes as
follows to the Pittsburg Commercial:
A lady met me this morning, saying,
"Did you see that receipt tor curing
hydrophobia in yesterdays CONNER
cialP | had not seen it. "Well," she
continued, sit is just the cure want
ed you to write about two or three
years ago; tho old Chester Valley
cure. 1t never was known to fail, and
was used In hundreds of cases in the
eastern part of the State. 1 remem-
Der hearing of 1t as long as I can re-
member anything. have told people
and told and talked, and no one
would mind me! / tried to get you
to write letter about it, and now you
0eust write, for people will not be-
lieve. They will read and forget all
about it,"
l remember perfectly her anxiety
that should write to the public and
proclaim that elecampane and fresh
milk are the specific for hydrophobia,
and my purpose to repeat the account
she gave of 1t, but do not remember
why l did not do so. That I may
atone for my negligence now repeat
what she 80 long ago told me and what
she now urges me to make US public
as possible.
In her old home in Chester county,
Pa, lived a German named Jacob
Emery, who used to be sent for, far
and wide, when any one had been Bit
ten by a rabid animal. He went to
his patient, carrying something under
stood to be . root, which he himself
dug in the woods. He MIXED pint
of milk fresh from the COW, put his
root in, boiled 1t, gave it to the patient
fasting; made him fast after taking it ;
gave second and third dose on alter
nate daye, and never failed in effect
ing cure. In come way which she
has forgotten, his secret transpired,
and the root was known to be elecam-
pane. The story, current in the
country, was that an old German
made the discovery in the days of
Penn, and applied to the Pennsylva-
mia Legislature for e grant $500 for
making his secret public. His offer
was treated with contempt, and he re-
solved that his knowledge should die
with him but drunken son knew it,
wrote out the receipt, making q num-
Der Of copies, and tried to sell them at
dollar each. One of them was offer.
ed to my informant's grand father, who
laughed at this vender of important
medicinal knowledge. He only sue.
ceeded in selling two, ono of these to
the man who made such effective use
oft. So well did he establish tho
local reputation of his specific, that in
his neighborhood folks were not
afraid of mad dogo. His reputation
was parallel to that of DIR. Marchant
of Greensburg, to whom every one in
this part of the country used to 60 or
send when by mad dog.
The intelligence and integrity of my
informant are beyond question, and
regret that her love of privacy should
prevent her giving the weight of hel
name to her conviction that you have
published an unfailing specific fol
hydrophobia. The people Of Chester
Valley are not of class likely to bt
misled by superstition, and che is con
i ANOus ~ " 10 ~ Va uAkfCI No
lief that Jacob Emery never failed L
cure or prevent hydrophobis. In one
case the spasms had begun before the
first dose was given, and the patien
recovered. She is anxious you should
publish the receipt again and again
keep it standing, and call attention tt
ii until every one cuts cut and pre-
/ serves q COPY, and is impressed will
the Importance of using the remedy q
once in case OF danger. The medica
properties of elacampane are very
powerful. Milk itself is a specific fol
many poisons, and while the nedica
faculty know no cure for this terrible
disease, we should open every avenue
of light into the dark subject. If tht
! disease is one Of the imagination, we
want specific to give confidence and
cure by the Imagination but thif
looks like real cure of veritablc
| disease.