Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-10

Then they told him there that DR.. Marchand,
who had the cure, lived at Uniontown.
They forgot or did not know that DR.. Lewis
Mnrchand was then dead. So the poor iel-
low took the stage for Uniontown, and from
there went clear out to the Marchand farm.
There he learned that it was DIR. Sam
Marchand, of Jacksonville, who had the
cure. So be had to be driven clear across
the country TO this place.
This delay made him frightfully nervous.
In those days it was the popular belief that
on nine days after being bitten by mad
dog person would go mad. This man was
too nervous to eat or Sleep. He was half
crazy with fear. He told me that the mis-
take 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 wanted DR.. Sam to lock the
fellow in his room. No. ne said, you and
everybody else lock yours, but let the man
have his freedom if he gets SICK He ad-
ministered 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 pea. Only one
was necessary for dose. 1t was expressly
stipulated that the patient abstain for six
months afterWard from anything that was
sour. Spurious liquors, especially. were
prohibited. We only know OF one failure in
more than hundred cases that were treated
by DR.. Sam. That was Mr.. Winters, who
lived at Williamsburg. Two years after the
Pennsylvania Railroad was opened he
came here suffering from terrible dog bite.
He took the pill, but he was heavy drinker,
we understood, and was unable to let his
cups alone. Two or three weeks later he
did of hydrophobia.
no CHARM ABOUT IT.
"some people contended that there was
charm in the middle OF the pill. Of course
that was a mere superstition. have seen
the inside of the pill, and know that it is
solid all the way through. A man csme
here once from Iowa with his 3-year-old
daughter. She had been bitten by a cat
right under the eye, and there was good
evidence that the bite was poisonous. When
they got here the father was so drunk that
he could not take care of the little 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.
1.-THE bite on her face had festered into an
ugly sore. She was too little to swallow the
hydrophobia pill whole, SO asked DR.. Sam
If could give it to her in parts He con-
sented, and so I cut the pellet into four
equal parts. That's the way 1 saw the in
side of the medicine. 1 never heard anyone
say Just how the stuff tasted, but il could
not have been very offensive.
SEVEN PERSONS CURED AT ONCE.
"A man from Brookville, Jefferson
county, came here once for eight OF the
pills. In his story he said that only seven
persons in Brookville had been bitten BY the
same mad dog. DR.. Sam then wanted to
know what he wanted the eighth pill for.
The fellow confessed that his horse 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,
"A Mr.. Beisel, Of youngstown, West
moreland county, cured his child of the dis
ease with q pill. james Hyndman, who
lived near Greensburg, was bitten by q
rabid dog and walked over to the farm of