The Dickinson press., 1889-04-27
THE WORK OLA MAIDSTONE
INFORMATION ON THIS SUBJECT
FROM A RELIABLE SOURCE.

The Maidstone Is Found Only in a Deer's
Stomach-Tlie Manner of Its Cse-It
Draws the Poison Out of the ~Islood-Tho
symptoms of i~Iydrophobia.
Seeing i'll your valued paper an account of
the Womack case of h%ydrophobia, and n de-
sire to hear from any person owning n mad
stone. write to you in regard to the true
maidstone and its effects. The stone used in
the case alluded to is not n maidstone. Tho
maidstone is only found in the stomach of the
deer They are of different sizes and shapes,
bat each one has a ring around the side Of n
b,ownish color The color when first taken
from the stomach of the deer is n light ash
color, which 'larkcns with age. The first one
that ] ever saw was in Iarncd, Kan. and |
will relate the circumstances of the case.
TIE WORK OF n DOG.
In lSSG was living there, and in June a
md dog made his appearance and before lie
was killed by Mr. Davidson he had bitten
four dogs. n calf. n cat and a young man.
The young man died in ten days in great
agony The four dogs went mad and were
Hi;lcl after having been confined to test their
eases. The calf was sold by the owner of it,
Mr. William DE MorS. sheriff of Pawnee
county, Kan, to Il man going west. after
having told him the circumstance of its hav
ins been bitten by the ma dog, and made
hl,n promise to let Mr.. De Mors know if it also
went mud, which it did | should have said
that the calf was a fine Jersey and MIR. De
Mnrs sold it for 81 The cat went mad and
Tit Mrs johnson. the wife of our barber.
who Immediately sent to Great Bend. Kan,
and procured the stone, which was applied
and stuck eighteen times, and today Mrs.
johnson is us well as any one.
In the west the sklnks gomad and are con,
>ilrretl more dangerous than the mad dog.
Mr. Leland, proprietor of the Pacific house,
Kansas City, Mo-, has one I'M people all
over tho country go there to be cured by it.
Last spring | was up on White Water river.
III the mountains of upper South Carolina,
when ! heard of one which. after great trou-
hir and expense, | secured. A short while be-
fore secured it | lost a fine pointer bitch,
who had just raised two fine puppies lone of
which also died from the same cause, with
hv,rophobia. 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
he did. ! then tied the puppy's mouth up
with II bandage. and laying him OF his side
the maj holding him down. took my bis
toury and made an incision in his shoulder,
and us soon as the blood commenced to flow l
applied the stone. 1t Immediately stuck, and
in one minute. upon attempting to raise it, l
found that it was stuck Us If glued on.
IN II PRESENCE OF WITNESSES.
Calling several witnesses, | showed them
the stone, and they also tried to remove il,
but found the same results that | did After
sticking for about seven minutes 1t dropped
off. and, after severe. attenpt to make it
take agair, . placed it in warm milk, which
::|hIu,red Il green color The next morning,
i'll tho presence of Professors Smith GORE
spondent of The Greenvil'e News here, and
Alderman, ! again applied the stone, but on
the inside of the thigh and the leg placed in
such u position that unless the stone had
stuck it would have dropped off. Tho result
was the same as the evening before, and Pro-
fcSsor Smith wrote an account of the OPERA
ton which he had witnessed, and it was pub
liShcd in several papers in South Carolina.
Being called away on business, | did not get
a chance to use it again for ono week, when
the disease had become SO violent that | could
not get any one to help INC to operate n him,
So ! had to let him die. Tho stone that l
have has cured three cases of bites from rat
tlcsnakcs, as will be sworn to by Milton
Nicholson and other residents of Jocassc val
ley 1t will also take tho poison from tho
sting of a wasp, bee or any kind of poisonous
insect. do not charge any ono for tho uso
of it, so any one can see that | have nothing
to make out of telling its virtues.
| will give you the symptoms of hydropho-
hia and then close. First, tho subject, man,
dog or any other creature, becomes sullen and
refuses to cat, and each day grows more snap
pisl. Then comes the contraction of tho
throat, which will not allow anything to
pass. The fear of water, us some say, is non-
sense. The muscles of the throat are so con
tracted 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 us they
hear water running or see it they will try to
lap it, but cannot. This lasts for about q
week. more or less, when the animal is SO
weakened that it dies. During this period
before too weak it will bite anything.
Some physicians claim that there is no by
drophobia, but saw ten cases caused by one
dog, and any citizen of this town will certify
to tho same. Ii any one of them in Atlanta
wish to test the truth Of %hydrophobia | expect
that ! will be ablet to send him a genuine case
before the summer passes this year. as we
have had q number of cases. both in 1887 and
lSSS.-R. c. Mot in Atlanta Constitution.