The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-09-13

ment WOulu nave " uIlVe HcIS lIOll
Pittsburg on the old pike. Many rode
horseback. When the railroad was
finished it increased the number of pa
tlents.
A GUEST TO BE AFRAID OF.
81 was only afraid OF one person,
however, who came to stay at our house
while he was getting the medicine"
continued Mrs Mcintyre. He was
man who lived somewhere down the
Ohio river. 1t took him five days to
reach Pittsburg by boat. Then they
told him there that DR.. Marchand, who
had the cure, lived at Uniontown. They
forget or did not know that DR.. Lewis
Marchand was then dead. So the poor
fellow took the stage for Uniontown,
and from there went clear out to the
Marchand farm. There he learned that
it DR.. Sam Machand, of Jacksonville,
who had the cure. So he had to be
driven clear across the country to this
place.
"This delay made him frigh,fully
nervous. In those days it was the popu-
lar belief that on nine days after bitten
by mad dog a person would 60 mad.
This man was too nervous TO eat or
sleep. He was half crazy with fear.
He told me that the mistake in going
to Uniontown might cost him his life,
for he reached here on the eighth day
after being bitten by rabid dog and he
was afraid that the next day would be
his last
SOMETHING ABOUT THE PILL.
"That night l wanted DIR. Sam to
lock the fellow in his room. No. he
said, you and everybody else lock
yours, but let the man have his freedom
if he gets SICK. He administered to
him one of the pills, and IN two days
the poor fellow went home feeling
easier. He wrote the doctor several
times afterward to say that there had
not been the slightest sign of trouble
after the medicine began working.
"This pill was of brownish color,
and was good bit larger than a pea.
Only one was necessary for a dose. 1t
was expressly stipulated that the patient
abstain for six months afterward from
anything that was sour. Spiritons liqu-
ors, especially, were prohibited. We
only know of one failure IN more than
a hundred cases that were treated by
DIR. Sam. That was Mr.. Winters, who
lived at Williamsburg. Two years after
the Pennsylvania Railroad was opened
he came here suffering from a terrible
dog bite. He lock the pill, but he was
a heavy drinker, we understood. and
was unable to let his cups alone. Two
or three weeks later he did of hypro-
phobia.
NO CHARM ABOUT IT.
"Some people contended that there
OF course that was mere superstition.
| have seen the inside Of tie pill, and
know that it is solid all the way through.
a man came here once from Iowa with
his 3 year old daughter. She had been
bitten by cat right under the eye, and
there was good evidence that the bite
was poisonous. When they 90, here
| the father was so drunk that he could
not take care of the lutte girl. She
was very hungry because of neglect. l
took charge of her as any mother would,
and we gave her good breakfast OF
bread and milk.
"The bite on her face had festered
into an ugly sore. She was too little to
swallow the hydrophobia pill whole, so
l asked DR.. Sam if l could give it to
her In parts. He consented, and so I
cut the pellet into four equal parts.
That's the way l saw the inside of the
medicine. | never heard anyone say
just how the stuff tasted, but it could
not have been very offensive.
SEVEN PERSONS CURED AT ONCE.
ga man from Brookville, Jefferson
county, came here once for eight of the
pills. In his story he said that only
seven persons in BrooKvile had been
bitten by the same mad dog. DR.. Sam
then wanted to know what he wanted
the eighth pill for. The fellow con-
fessed that his horse a very valuable
animal, had also been bitten by the
dog. This made the doctor very angry,
who insisted that he was no horse
doctor. He refused to give the extra
pill. All seven of the persons were
cured. | heard that the horse died.
ga Mr.. Belsel, of Youngstown, West
moreland county, cured his child of the
disease with pill. James Hyndman,
who lived near Greensburg, was bitten
by rabid dog and walked over to the
farm of DR.. Lewis Marchand, in Fay
ette county, when he owned the medi-
cine, and claimed to have been saved
from the dread disease. | never
doubted the efficacy of the pill"
DIR. s. S. MARCHAND's DEATH.
Mrs. Mcintyre added that often
when persons came to DR.. Marchand
with an extra bad-looking bite he would
burn it with caustic in addition to ad.
ministering the medicine inwardly.
There is another superstition connected
with this remedy, viz, that it will only
cure if you refrain from crossing a
stream of water. OF course there IS
nothing in it, but l have been curious
to know if the story originated from a
desire to hurt the Pasteur system across
the big salty pool of water, or whether
it has some connection with the deri-
vation of the word hydrophobia-hydor,
water, and phobos, to fear.
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