The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-11-19
FIGHTING OFP HYDRoPHoBIA.
The Saving Effect of VIII Power EmpIoye
against That Dreadful Diseare.

The Saving Effect of VIII Power EMPLOYED
against That Dreadful Disease.
1 heard General Beale give an inter
esting account of his once fighting off an
attack OF hydrophobia.
It is the first case have ever heard of
mans being able by mere will power
to throw of this formidable and terrible
6[sease. The General apparently be-
/lieves that hydrophObia Is but a creation
TO a certain extent OF the imagina Ion.
When he was young man he was
Surveyor General in Southern California.
During his residence there, through the
purchase Of land, he laid the foundation
for his present fortune. His favorite
sport at that time was the hunting of
wolves.
The hunters would go out armed with
lances and follow trained dogs. The
dogs would run down the wolves. I'm
mediately following the attack one wolf
would always leave the dogs and come
to attack the hunter.
The General said one day when n wolf
came towards the lance, with which he
could easily keep of and destroy any
wolf making IN ordinary attack broke.
As his lance broke he started to kick tho
wolf under the jaw. His foot missed its
aim, and instead was caught In the
VOLTS mouth.
The wolf biz clear through his mocca-
was the grip OF the wolf that he did not
even release his hold when killed. The
muscles supporting his jaws had to be
cut before his teeth could be relaxed
from his terrible grip.
When the General returned to camp,
as he was alone during this experience,
he was met by a cheerful companion,
who told him that the bite OF an enraged
wolf was certain to produce hydropho-
In a
condition to communicate tho rabies, as
he had been worried to great extent by
the dogs before be attacked the General.
General Beale says that he did not
have any opportunity OF cauterizing the
wounds, and had attached no particular
Importance to the bite until he had re-
turned to camp.
There was hardly a day passed but
what his companion referred to cases OF
hydrOphobla resulting from wolf bites.
The result OF this continued talk upon
the subject was to produce q great de-
preston in General Beale's mind.
Within a short time he began to feel
symptoms OF on approaching attack of
hydrOphobia. He had the most extra
ordinary aversion to water. It was with
difficulty that he could swallow. A
swelling came I'm his throat which threat
ened to close whenever he sought to
drink. It was only by an extraordinary
effort of the will that he could force HIM
self to swallow.
One day the General said to himself
that unless he combated this growing
feeling he felt certain he would have an
attack of hydrophObla. SO ono morning
he walked deliberately to spring and
thrust his head into the water. He said
as he approached his head to the wa or
h. felt the most intense desire to jump
and scream AMI run away from it. But
he held himself right there and moved
his head up and down In the water until
he conquered this impulse and aversion.
He followed up this practice until he
felt the swelling In his throat going
down and hi aversion to water lessen
ing. He fcl that he was getting control
and this encouraged him. In a short
time all symptoms of the disease had
disappeared.
The General was firmly Convinced that
II he had for one moment relaxed his
will power during that trying time he
would have passed directly into q fit Of
the wildeS. kind OF hydrOphobia.
He has never suffered from the bite of
the wolf since that time, although it oc-
CURED over twenty-five years ago.
IN. Y. World.