Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-09-13

ton TO be offered is that the credit O
vivisection has been so closely con
nected with this system that they fee
they must make it appear successful Al
all COSTS"
Several remedies for hydrophobi.
have been published with the highest
recommendations, and at least have
the advantage Of not producing the
disease if they do not cure it. The
Teas Farm and Ranch, Tex, gives the
following from Mr.. G. F. w. Richter
once in the military service in Texas
now living at West Berkley, Cal.
Wash the wound with warm vine
gar, dry it and drop muriatic acid into
it, which will destroy the poison and
is less painful than burning or cutting
a piece out. Vinegar enough can be
heated over lamp in a tin cup. and
the sooner the better"
A French physician, DIR. Buisson,
who had found that steam baths pre-
vented hydrOphobia was accidentally
inoculated from a person dying of that
disease whom he had been called to
see. On the ninth day afterward
symptoms of hydrophobia appeared
which returned every five minutes
with increasing violence and regarding
his remedy as preventive, rather
than curative one, he took vapor
bath with the intention of suffocating
himself, but when the bath reached
the heat OF Al degrees CentigraJe (l12
FahrenheiD all the symptoms disap.
peared as if by magic. He says: 81
have felt nothing more of it. have
attended more than eighty persons
bitten by mad dogs and all have been
saved by this method. When person
has been bitten, as preventive he
must take a steam bath every day for
seven days from 81 Centigrade Q34
Fah.) to 63 Cent. Q45 Fah). When
the disease makes its appearance only
one steam bath is necessary, raising
the temperature hastily to 81 Cent.
and then slowly to 63 Cent. The pa
tient should be we'll confined to his
room till completely cured"
The Bombay Guardian, India, pub
fishes the following statement from
H. J. Bruce, Sstars. India, Sept. 18th,
1894: "Whiie out on . missionary
tour, a native preacher told him of
FIVE men who had been bitten by
mad dog, one had died, and two were
rapidly coming down with hydropho-
bia. Mr.. Bruce said, Go Immediately
and try this remedy: place a pan OF
water over a lighted lamp and put a
chair over it. Make the sick man sit
in the chair and cover him with
blankets thrown over his head (leav-
ing place for him to breathe) so as
to confine the steam about his body.
Keep him there till he is in q state of
profuse perspiration. Repeat this for
two or three days in succession. l
went on my journey and in three days
recovered. The men had received the
vapor bath for two successive days and
the symptoms of hydrophobia had all
disappeared. They were calm and
natural but very weak from excessive
perspirstion, aud did not take another
bath. In fifteen days they we're able
to go about their business and were
still we'll Jan. %, 1885,"
A confirmation of the uselessness OF
Pasteur's treatment has just occurred
(July 2, 1885, in Byron, Georgia,
where H. B. Walton died in terrible
agony on June 3Oth, ten days after his
return from the Pssteur Institution in
New York City, where he had been
treated and supposed to be cured. He
was bitten May 21st and went to the
Institute June I'd. 1t is to be deeply
regretted that he was not treated with
vspor baths when the violent symp-
toms FIRST appeared, for remedy which
is within the easy reach of every one
would be OF inestimable value, and for
ever shut the doors Of the frightful in
stitutions where experimenters like
Pasteur find excuses for their attrO-
cious cruelties by claiming they are
done for the benefit of mankind.
SARA THoRP THOMAS.