The Indianapolis journal., 1899-07-27
SIMPLE CURE FOR HYDROPHOBIA.
Pasteur Method DenOunced-Disease
Curable by Hot VapOr.

DR.. Beverley o. Kinnear. in the Medical
Record.
l have in my possession. carefully ar
ranged list of 394 cases treated for hydro
phoba by the Pasteur method, from August,
1885. to July, 1898. all of which were fatal.
Some were bitten by wolves, some by cats,
dogs. Pasteur s treatment, then, has
not only not le5sened, but increased the
introduced a new and terrible form Of the
dsorder-paralytic rabies. Further, 1t is es-
sentially. set forth as preventive treat
ment only, but of little or no service after
the attack has begun or well-developed
symptoms have appeared; whereas, the
treatment about to be placed before you is
ventively, and will cure if administered not
later than the second day of its develop
ment, and frequently does so even II not
given until the third day.
The treatment which / advocate is known
as that of the "Buisson" bath. DR.. Buisson
doctor of medicine of the Paris faculty.
hydrophobia. just hour before her
death. She wished TO be bled, and after the
operation he wiped his hands on a handker-
chief saturated with her saliva. He imme-
diately noticed a small wound upon the first
finger of his left hand, and thoroughly
cauterized 1t upon arriving at his office.
But on the seventh day pain developed in
the wound and rapidly spread up the fore
arm, following the course of the radial
nerve. As the disease progressed the pain
became intolerable: his eyes Were extremely
irritable, with dimness of vision; his hair
seemed 10 stand erect: current of fresh
constant nausea and Tightening of the
throat, with excessive salvation and inceS-
SAINT expectoration; he had a horror OF
bite. He continues; For some time past l
had been persuaded that vapor bath was
able to prevent. but not to cure, hydro
with % death. / sought that which was the
most prompt and least painful.
Being the proprietor of bath establish
ment resolved to die in a vapor bath (com-
monty called Russian.r l took a Reaumur
thermometer in my hands. fearing that the
heat 1 desired might be refused me
and at AZ degrees Reaumur Q21 FahrenheiD
1 was cured. l confess that at first re-
fused to believe in cure which partook of
the nature of miracle. After the bath 1
dined and drank with ease. and went to
bed and slept we'll From that day to this
l have felt no sort of pain or uneasiness.
The report Of his case was given to the
French minister of public instruction. Thus
this great discovery was simply blundered
upon. like many another one. Subsequent
underwent his process and not one died.
The theory is simply that sweating Qn-
creased by hot drink opens all the pores of
the skim and all poisonous matter in the
blood or in surface wounds is forced out
through the pores"
Buisson says: 'vaccinate an infant and
give Ii vapor bath directly afterward, the
vaccine does not take" The Buisson sys-
tenn answers positively all the indications
for a radical cure of the disease while that
that whereas Pasteur refused TO receive
patients when hydrophobia symptoms had
begun, the Buisson treatment cures hydro
phobia when fully developed. notable
case Is that of Pauline Kiehl at Paris. She
was bitten. with two other persons. by a
rabid dog The others died of hydrophobia.
Pauline was taken TO Pasteur. who refused
to inoculate her on the ground that the
hydrophobia had gone past hope. She was
taken to the baths In Paris. Faubourg st.
Honore. where DR.. Leon Petit subjected her
TO the Buisson treatment. and she recov.
cred. BotS as a preventive and cure IL Is
now well %hown in England, where. accord
ing to the Herald of the Golden Age II can
be administered at thirty-three differ
ent institutions. under the superintendent
OF qualified medical men. II can also be
procured at every hydrotherapeutic estab-
lishment in the United Kingdcm and at
over seventy places in India The governor
general of India has accepted 1t for all hos
pitals and dfspensaries under government
control. and in consequence thirty ba tbs
have been sent there from London. Like
wise In America IL has been tried with pc
nOunced success