Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-02-01
THE HERALD.
A Cure For Hydrophobla.

Mrs. Jane G. SWIsehelm writes 10
the Pittsburg Commerciat.-
A lady met me this morning, say
ing, "Did you see that receipt tor
curiBg bydrophobia in yesterdays
paper ?" | had not seen it. "Well,"
she continued, sit is just the cure
wanted you to write about two or
three years ago-the old Chester
Valley cure. 1t never was known to
fail. and was used in hunreds of cases
10 the eastern part of the state.
remember of hearing of it as long as
| can remember anything. / have
told people, and told and talked, and
no one would mind me. | tried to
get you to write letter about 1T,
and now you must, for people will
not believe. They will and for
get all about it.
| remember perfectly her anxiety
that | shall write to tho public and
proclaim that elecampane and fresh
milk are the specific for hydropho-
bia, and my purposes to repeat the
account she gave me of it, but do
not remember why | did not do so.
That ! may atone for my negligence
| 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 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 some-
thing understood to be root, which
he himself dug in the woods. lie
MIXED a pint OF milk fresh from the
COW, put the root into it, boiled it,
gave it TO the patient, fasting; made
him fast after taking it gave Sec
ond and third dose on alternate days,
and never failed in effecting a cure.
10 some way which she had forgot
ten his secret transpired, and the
root was known to be elecampRne.
The story, current in the country,
was that an old German made the
discovery in the days of Penn and
applied to the Pennsylvania Legls-
lature for the grant of $500 for max
ing 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, max
ing a lumber of copies, and tried to
sell them at 81 piece. One of them
was offered to my informant's grand
father, who laughed at this vender
of important medicinal knowledge.
He only succeeded in selling two,
one of these to the man who made
such effective use of it. So well did
be establish the local reputation of
the specific that in his neighborhood
folks were not afraid of mad dogs.
His reputation was parallel to that OF
DR.. Marchant, of Greensburg, TO
whom every one in this part OF the
country, used to go or send when
bitten by mad dog.
The intelligence and integrity OF
my informant are beyond question,
and | regret that her love of privacy
should prevent Der giving the weight
of her name to her conviction that
you have published an unfailing spe-
cific for hydrophobia.
The people of Chester Valley are
not of class likely to be misled by
puPorstitien, A.Aa Oh "a oo~Sde~t it
was a general or universal belief that
Jacob Emery never failed to cure or
prevent hydrophoba. In one case
the spasms had begun before the
first dose was given, and the patient
recovered.
She is anxious you should publish
the receipt again and again, Keep it
standing, and call attention to it un-
ill every one cuts out and preserves
copy, and is impressed with the i'm
portance of using the remedy at once
10 ease of danger.
The medicinal properties of ele-
campane are very powerful. Milk
itself is a specific for many poisons,
and while the medical faculty
know no cure for this terrible dis
ease we shall open every avenue of
light into tbs dark subject.
# the disease is one of the sgir
alton We want specific to give con-
lidence and cure by the Imagination !;
but this looks like a real cure OF a
ceritable disease.