Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-18
BATH TREATMENT.
Mrs. Holley Writes Interestingly Of the
New Method for the Cure Of
Hydrophobia.
Wonderful Success that Has Accom-
panied the Application of the Com
mon Vapor Bath.
OR BU1ssON.

DuC' icdu lllS lliSt. LLOlcSSOl ctcl,
greatest clinician France has pro-
duced in the last century, says:s IN.
Pasteur does not cure h~ydrophobia,
he gives it. He has been obliged to
propagate a belief in the frequency
of hydrophobia, which is really very
rare iii men. 1 have seen only two
cases in my t~hirty-tive years Of
hospital and civil practice"
DR.. Edward Berdoe. NJ. r. G. S.,
says: 80 far as IL good effects
having resulted from the treatment,
we know that it has undoubtedly led
to the increase of hystero-epilepsy, a
disease singularly like hydrophobia.
DR.. T. NJ. Dolan, Il. Il. G. s., Hall
fax. able editor of the Provincial Med
ical Journal, in his famous book, ''Ias-
teur and Rabies" says: "Not only
does NJ. Pasteur not protect; from
disease. but he has added a new
terror to. it by the introduction OF
paraletic rabies"
Just here 1 will give YOU Pastelr's
method of growing virus. lie first
opens the skull of the. living animal
and then drops in on the animals eX-
posed brain the virus-poisOn OF rabies
taken from IL rabid dog. artiticially
made so. thereby converting the brain
into his virus-garden for the growth
of the poison.
Veterinarians say that natural
rabies is mild compared to rabies in
duced by virus let in on the BRAIN"
Edward Mayhew, the experienced
veterinarian. said that zone animal
in this condition that was confined
near Il fire. flew at the burning mass.
pulled out the live Goals and in his
fury scrunched Them"
But l am, Notwithstanding, glad to
record the following high opinions and
methods for the benefit Of those that
NAV not know Of the better way, viz:
..The Buisson Bath Treatment
which for hydrophobia has been found
so successful that it can now be adj
ministered ut thirty-three institutions
in England, under qualified medical
men. That the Pasteur treatment is
unreliable is evident by the fact that
more than 313 persons have died
either under the treatment, or III spite
Of it. And as it involves the intliction
of the most internal barbarities and
torture the sooner the public is made
aware that Il superior and more
humane remedy for h~ydrophobia has
been discovered the better"
DR.. Edward Berdoe says: al
though l have hitherto been skeptical
as to the value of the Buisson treat
nlent. l candidly admit that the evil
dence is too strong for me, and as 1T
is perfectly harmless and easy of I'M
mediate application, it is certainly the
duty OF every doctor that is called to
a case of hydrophobia to submit his
patient to, the Buisson system"
1.-The Buisson treatment cures when
the disease is fully developed, while
! statistics show that Pasteur refused
to receive Il patient when the symp-
toms had begun" 1t is the Buisson sys-
TEN that has under great difficulties
and expenditure been set up in Eur
ope, India and Ceylon." Dr.. Bowie,
L. r. C. T., gives the following: "Dr.
Buisson, Doctor of Medicine of the
Paris Faculty, was the first, regularly,
to apply it to himself when actually
suffering from hydrophobia. The
baths cured him, and later over eighty
persons. bitten by rabid dogs, were
thus treated, and not Il died. He
ordered seven baths at Il temperature
Of 12G to 40 degrees Fahrenheit, ~ to
AS Reamur. n each consecutive day.
The wound was washed with liquid
ammonia, and the patient drank free
ly OF hot infusion of borage to induce
full perspiration. When the disease
had declared itself, the patient re-
manned in the Turkish bath until
cured; not long, as il fatal, it is so in
four days.
"Dr. Buisson. who was suffering all
the asonies Of this horrible disease,
thinking only Of death, resolved to die
in a vapor bath, believing it to be
the least painful. 10 his surprise the
pain all left him. he ate and drank
with ease, and later went to bed and
| slept we'll. And now after twenty
nine years reports that from that day
he has no sort Of pain or uneas-
mess"
In Lyons, was another accidental
cure. A man that was suffering from
h%ydrophobia was placed under several
mattresses to stiie him. but the pro-
fuse %perspiration cured him.
"a young man in London was cured
between two feather beds, while
placed there for s%uffocation."
"a young man in America was bit
ten by a rattlesnake and ran nearly
the whole day to reach home, went to
pea, pefSp1feu pfOluselE, anu lAle
snake bite healed like any simple
wound"
Sir John Drummond Hay. for years
minister to Morocco, stated that the
Arabs cured hydrophobia by sweat
ing. The patient swathed by wooden
covering till nearly smothered, was
placed in a small tent almost air tight,
and thus left until free Precipitation
carried off all the poison, and it was
called infallible.' DR.. Buisson says:
"Vaccinate an infant, and then give it
a vapor bath, and the vaccine will not
take. AS hydrophobia does not de-
clare itself before the seventh day, it
is therefore possible to take a long
journey to procure the baths, If neces-
sary."
A notable cast is that Of Pauline
Kiehl Of Pano. She was bitten, as
were two other persons, by a rabid
dog. The latter died, but Pauline
was taken to Pasteur, who refused to
~inoculate her on the ground that n.y.
drophobia had gone past hope
She was then taken to the baths in
Paris. where DIR. Leon Petit gave her