The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-23
4 SIMPLE CURE FOR HYDR0PHoBTI.
Pasteur Method Denounced and tho Disease
Pronounced Durable by Hot vapor.

Pasteur Method Denounced and the Disease
Pronounced Durable by Hot vapor.
DR.. Beverley o. Kinnear in tie Medical Record.
have in my possession a carefully arranged
list Of 1914 cases treated for hydrophobia BY tho
Pasteur method. from August, 1885. to July,
1893. all OF which were fatal. Some were Bit
ten by wolves, some by cats, and the vast ma
jority by supposedly m I'D dogs. Pasteurs treat
ment. then. has not only not lessened. but In
creased the number OF cases Of hydrophobia;
II has also introduced q new and terrible form
OF the disorder--paralytic rabies. Further. IL
Is essentially set forth as o 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 la simple. Ia not injuri-
ous may be used nreventively. and will cure II
administered not later than the second day OF
It's development. and frequently do 80 even II
not given until the third day.
The treatment which advocated 10 known
as that OF tho "Buisson" bath. Dr. Buisson
doctor OF medicine OF the Paris faculty. was
called in to woman suffering from hydro
phobia. just one hour before her death. She
wished to be bled. and after the operation he
wiped his hands on a handkerchief saturated
with her saliva. He i'm modiately noticed Q
small wound upon the first finger OF his left
hand, and thoroughly cauterized 1t upon arriv-
Ing at, his office; But on the. seventh day
pain developed In the wound and rapidly
srrcad up the forearm. following the
of the 1 ,Ss As the
with dimness q vision: his hair seemed g
the paroxyms there were constant nausea and
tightening OF the throat. with excessive saliya-
horror Of water. aud constant longing to tor run
and bite. He continues: For some time past
l had been persuaded that vapor bath was
My Thought being occupied solely with death,
! sought that which was the most prompt and
Being the proprietor OF bath establish
es4 my ssfps Sss tSs
an" ana at ~ Rfsumpr Fi III FaSTe3hef, wa.
AMI miracle cure Hs %H the s20f Fl d' ana
From that day to this have felt no sort Of
n9n or TSe TePor Of his
structon; Thus this great discovery was sim :
Ey Numbered upon like many another one.
Subsequently, over eighty peorlo bitten by
died. The theory is simply that sweating in
creased by hot drink opens all the pores OF the
III AZ WOUNDS IS forced out !" The
pores"
Buisson says: "vaccinate an in FAINT and give Il
not take" The Buisson system answers posi-
lively all the Indications for a radical cure Of the
disease. viii lie TINT Of NJ. Pasteur does not: and
statistics show that whereas Pastenr refused
70 receive patients when hydronhohia symp-
tcrls Ind begun. the Buisson treatment cures
hydrophoba when fully developed. A notable
case is that OF Paul inc kiehl at Paris. She was
hit'en. with two other persona. by n rahid dog
/ The others died Of hydrophobia. Pauline was
| taken to fasteur. who refused to inocn late her
on the ground that the nydrophobia had gone
past hope. She was taken to the baths in Paris.
Fanhourg st, HonorH, whore DR.. Leon Petit
subjected her to the Buisson treatment, and
shs recovered Both as a preventive and cure
it is,now we'll known in England. where. ac-
cur'ling to the Herald 81 The Golden AGE, IL ca n
u" Administered at thirty three different in
s'''u:inp. nnd"r the surerinte ndence NJ quail
very hvir",i eraneutic establishment in the h..
n,ted kiuglom. and at over seventy places in
ln'i', tn" GoycrnCr-ti General OF India has ac-
Cuutcd y tor n II hospitals and disr"nsarips nm .
DIR nov"rnmc mt control. and in consequence
thirty baths have been sent there from Lon
dOn. Likewise in America it has been tried
with pronounced success.