Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-05
THE WORK OF A MAIDSTONE
INFORMATION ON THIS SUBJECT
FROM A RELIABLE SOURCE,

FROM A RELIABLE SOURCE.
The Maidstone Is Found Only in a Deer's
Stor iaeh-The Manner of It's Use-It
Draws the Poison Out of the Blood-The
mptoms of Hydrophobia.
Seeing in your valued paper an account of
the w oniack case of hydrophobia, and de-
sire to hear from any person owning a mad
stone, write to you in regard to the true
maidstone and its effects The stone used in
the cae alluded to is not a maidstone The
maidstone is only found in the stomach of the
deer. They are of different sizes and shapes,
but ea n one has ring around the side of
brownish color. The color when first taken
from the stomach of the deer is a light ash
color, which darkens with age. The first one
that ever saw was in Larned, Kan, and ]
will relate the circumstances of the case
THE WORK OF ONE DOG
In 1896 | was living there, and in June a
mad dog made his appearance and before he
was killed by Mr.. Davidson he had bitten
four oogs, a calf, cat and young man.
The young man died in ten days in great
agony The four dogs went mad and were
killed after having been confined to test their
cases. The calf was sold by the owner of it,
Mr.. William De Mors, sheriff of Pawnee
county, Kan, to a man going west, after
having told him the circumstances of It's hav-
ing been bitten by the mad dog, and made
him pl omise TO let Mr.. De Mors know if it also
went mad, which it did | should have said
that the calf was a fine Jersey and Mr.. De
Mors sold it for $3 The cat went mad and
bit Mrs. johnson, the wife of our barber
who Immediately sent to Great Bend, Kan,
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and suck eighteen times, and today Mrs
johnson is as well as any one.
In tho west the slunks go mad and are con-
sidered more dangerous than the mad dog
Mr. Leland, proprietor of the Pacific house,
Kansas City, Mo-, has one and people all
over tie country 60 there TO be cured by it.
Last spring | was up on White Water river,
in the mountains of upper South Carolina,
when heard OF one which, after great trou-
bic and expense, l secured A short while be-
fore Secrred it | lost a fine pointer bitch,
who had just raised two fine puppies lone of
which also died from the same cause) with
hydrophobia. The day before the stone ar
rived the other puppy was taken and | had
him shut up to try the stone on.
Having at last obtained the stone, deter
mined TO try it. Making my man wrap his
hands well with cloth, SO the puppy could not
bite him, ! ordered him to catch him. which
be did. | then tied the puppy's mouth up
with n bandage, and laying him on his side
the man holding him down. took my bis
tourY and made an incision in his shoulder,
and as soon as the blood commenced to flow l
applied the stone. 1t Immediately stuck, and
in one minute, upon attempting to raise it, /
found that it was stuck if glued ON.
IN THE PRESENCE OF WITNESSES.
Calling several witnesses, l showed them
the stone, and they also tried to remove it,
but found the same results that did. After
sticking for about seven minutes it dropped
off, AMI, after several attempts to make 1t
take again, placed it in warm milk, which
acquired green color. The next morning,
in the presence of Professors Smith (corre-
spondent of The Greenville News here) and
Alderman, again applied the stsne, but on
the ins de of the thigh and the leg placed in
such a position that unless the stone had
stuck it would have dropped off. The result
was tho same as the evening before, and Pro
feSsor Smith wrote an account of the opera
tion which he had witnessed and it was pub
lished in several papers in South Carolina.
Being called away on business, did not get
a chan % to use it again for one week, when
the dis sase had become SO violent that could
not get any one to help me to operate on him,
so l had to let him die The stone that
have has cured three cases of bites from rat
tlesnaEes, as will be sworn to by Milton
Nicholson and other residents of Jocasse val
ley. Il will also take the poison from the
sting OF a wasp, bee or any kind of poisonous
insect. do not charge any one for the use
of it, 50 any one can see that ] have nothing
to make out of telling its virtues
will give you the symptoms of hydropho
bia AMI then close. First, the subject, man.
dog or any other creature, becomes sullen and
refuses to eat, and each day grows more snap
pish. Then comes the contraction of the
throat, which will not allow ANYTHING to
pass The fear of water, some say, is nom
sense. The muscles of the throat are so con-
tracteo that neither solids nor liquids can
pass. | have watched the disease and all
symptoms. A dog will take food in its
mouth, but cannot swallow. As soon as they
hear water running or see it they will try to
lap it, but cannot This lasts for about O
week, more or less, when the animal Is so
weaker ed that it dies. During this period
(before too weak it will bite anything
Some physicians claim that there is no hy-
drophobia, but saw ten cases caused by one
dog, al d any citizen of this town will certify
to the same. If any one of them in Atlanta
wish to test the truth of hydrophobia expect
that l will be able to send him genuine case
before the summer passes this year, as we
have had a number of cases, both in 1887 and
1SSS.-2 c. Mot in Atlanta Constitution.