The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-10-13
The Iswa Maidstone, Which Is said TO
Have Saved 40 Many Lives.

Yesterday Mr.. Turner Evans, Of Par
is, was in this city, says the Cedar Rap
ids Republican, and we asked him for
the history of this remarkable stone in
his possession. Where the stone was
discovered is not known. The first that
is known of il and It's wonderful prop
critics is that l35 years ago il was IN the
hands of AN old Nirginian by the name
of Evans, distant relative Of its pres
ent owner. At an early day its fame
was known throughout the surrounding
country, aud cases innu uerable of bites
by rabid animals and poisonous snakes
were successfully treated with it. Adam
Evans, father OF the present proprietor,
came into possession OF il through his
father, in the year 1872, while living
near Boone Station, Kentucky For 3
years it was AN infallible remedy in his
hands, and upon his decease il fell TO
Turner Evans, the present owner, who
was then a resident of Paris, in this
county. He has operated with il for 26
years, and says he never knew il TO fail
in curing the most hopeless cases Of by
drophobia. For some time his friends
and neighbOrs scofied at the idea of its
virtues, but after seeing him treat nu-
merous desperate cases among horses
and cattle, credulity in its remedialpow-
ers were founded or uncontrovertible
fact Since then none who have seen
il operate can doubs its efficiency lie
has had ESQ cases, men and animals to-
gether, some of them after spasms had
set in, and IN no single case has the lit
tie treasure failed 70 give instant relief
and ultimate and lasting cure. The
stone is very small, being no larger
than the end of mans thumb, and
weighs less than quarter OF an ounce.
In appearance il looks not unlike a
bit of dark sponge, except that the
grain is close and the pores not so
large, though tuey seem TO extend
nearly from side to side Examined
through a glass, il looks like flint, and
about the mouths Of the pores are dis
tinctlv seen dark colored rings Of mat
ter resembling sand stone. In shape il
is triangular, having but one fiat sur
face, which Is called the working face.
Before operating, it is heated in q solu-
ton OF milk and water, one part OF the
former and three of the latter, 20 blood
heat. The patient is made TO exercise
until the blood circulates freely, then
the skin of portion Of the body near
the bite il scratched with a sharp
pointed instrument until the blood
shows, the stone j. applied until il Is
filled with the virus, and then taken OF
and soaked out in warm milk and
water. Applications are continued I'M
Ill the stone ceases to stick. when the
cure Is completed. Once applied 10
am infected person IL can not be removed
without considerable difficulty, SO great
is is power Of suction l. has been
known 90 stick TO a single person be-
tween eighty and one hundred times.
Upon the flesh of person not inuocu-
lated with the saliva of a rabid crea-
ture IL has no more effect than an Ordina-
nv pebble, unless the individual be dis
eased with salt rheum or scrofula, in
which case its action Is similar 10 that
in a case of hydrophobia. Il is though,
that these latter diseases could be cured
with it, but Mr.. Evans has never under
taken 20 do so.
The medical fraternity have long
since given up finding a sure remeoy
for this terrible disease. but Or. Evans
has had numbers of cases where the
patients had had violent spasms and ap.
peared To be about at the door Of the
most horrible death known, aud ha.
never lost case. Among the more
recent cases he has had was that Of Mr.
Bruce, OF Mechanicsyiile, who, upon
arrival az his house, was already giver
10 nervous, painful jerkings Of the
limbs and back. The case Of Mr.. Field,
Of Chicago, whose cure we noticed IN
Mondays Republican, was similar. Mr.
Field told US that for twenty-four hour,
before the stone was applied he was
subject 10 the most tortuiing inyOlUn
tary jerkings and twitch.ngs Of the
muscles, and that he suffered untold
agony In both mind and body. He pro
nounced his cure radical, and said that
he would have rather given all he wa.
worth than not To have been treated by
it, as he verify believes he should hay,
gone mad without. ANY one that hears
him talk can not but have full faith il
its powers.