Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-08
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A Cure for Hydrophobia.

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Mrs.Jane G.Swisshelm writes
to the Pittsburgh Commercial
A lady met me this morning,
saying: "Did you see that re-
ceipt for curing hydrophobia in
yesterdays paper?" l had not
seen it. "Well," she contin.
ned, sit IL just the cure / want.
ed you to write about two oil
three years ago-the old Ches'
ter-yalley cure. 1t never was
known TO fail, and was used il
hundreds of cases in the east.
crn part OF the State. l re.
member hearing of it as long al
/ can rememberanything. l have
told people, and told and talked
and no one would mind me.
tried to get you to write a let.
ter about it, and now you must
for people will not believe. They
will read and forget all about it. y
! remember perfectly her anx-
iety that | should wIite to the
public and proclaim that ele-
eampane and fresh milk are the
specific for hydrophobia, and
my purpose to repeat the ac-
count she gave me of it, but ]
do not remember why | did not
do so. That l may atone fol
my negligence, l now repeat
what she so long ago told ME.
and what she now urges me to
make as public as possible.
In her old home in Chester
county, Pennsylvania, lived 8
German named Joseph Emery
who used to be sent for, far and
wide, when any one had been
bitten by a rabid animal. He
went to his patient carrying
something understood to be a
root, which he himself dug in
the woods. He MIXED a pint
of milk fresh from the COW, put
the root into it, boiled it, gave
a second and third dose on al
ternate days, and never failed
in effecting a cure. In some
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 Ger
man made the discovery in the
days of Penn and applied to the
Pennsylvania Legislature for d
grant of $500 for making his
secret public. His offer was
treated with contempt, and he
resolved that his knowledge
should die with him; but g
drunken son knew it, wrote out
the receipt, making a number
of copies, and tried to sell them
at 81 apiece. One Of them was
offered to my informant's grand.
father, who laughed at this ven
der of important medical knowl'
edge. He only succeeded il
selling two, one of these TO the
man who made such effective
use of it. So well did he es-
tablish the local reputation of
his specific that in his neigh
borhood folks were not afraid
Of mad dogs. His reputation
was parallel to that Of DIR
Marchant, Of Greensburg, tc
whom every one in this part of
country used TO go or send wher
bitten by a mad dog.
The intelligence and integ'
rity of my informant are be-
yond question, and l regret that
her love of privacy should pre-
vent her giving the weight of
her name to her conviction that
you have published an unfail-
ing specific for hydropho5ia.
The people Of Chester val
ley are not Of a class likely to
be misled by superstition, and
she is confident it was a gener-
al or universal belief that Jacob
Emery never failed to cure OF
prevent hydrophobia. In one
case the spasms had begun be-
fore the first dose was given, and
the patient recovered.
She is anxious you should
publish the recipe again and
again, keep it standing, and call
attention to it until every one
cuts out and preserves a copy,
and is impressed with the i'm
portance of using the remedy
at once in case of danger.
The medical properties of ell
campane are very powerful.
Milk itself is a specific for ma
nv poiscns, and while the med
ical faculty knows no cure for
this terrible disease, we should
open every avenue of light into
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