Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1877-10-31 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

REMARKABLE CURE OF HYDROPHOBIA. >lr. H. Brook. • :Res to t. Deity Nee.  " About forty, or it may be from forty to fortythree years ago, I remember reading a very remarkable case iif the ,tire d hydrophobia It waa published in the one, being 8.11 abstract of • paper which had thee recently been read by an eminent French gheeteinn befiire one of the learned societies ad Pane. fhe awe rep.rteil hie owe cue. If e had been the dhaection if • bwily jmt after death from hyfrpb.bl.and having • recent lancet cut, upon his hand at the time, hal inadvertently wipedthat hand with a cloth that waa been:mired with the blood and their ith from the nicuth of the bidy. He was at ion• constious of an scut, pe,nliar pain I Lilac wane etineiderable, time he be,ame iubject  ti all the symptoms, aufferuiga and Indications ,11 hydniphobia, which he minutely detailed. lie concealed hi. sufferings, and Pertained to follow his professional avocations, a. long as he could, and until he could conceal them no longer, and then feeling that ids death from hydrophobia was] in. ;table, he determined to anticipate it, .d to meet death in his oven way by an act of suicide. Ileath by suffocation in a iapour bath he conceived to he infinitely more agreeable than death by hydrophobia. eel having made all neceesary preparationi be entered 14 yap,. lmth, heated to exec., iii.nding to he in it. The hath, epeedily phuluced the moist ...um perepration. and a. the perspiration increased the symptom. ot malady decreamil, need at length they entirely .ii,appeared, and he determined to live. The profuse ',emigration appeared to him to be the eff,...Mve moo .4 hie relief and recovery, and when he eame to reflect it suloppiently he found that hydrophobia wee c.h.mon to those .irnals only that not perspire. He h, that the remedy of the Italian...try the fatal effects of the bite of the tarantula wag a villa re dance, in which the victim w. excited to the utm. et' de.,ree, and p.mpelled to ;lance until be sank ex. he.terl, profum perspiration, in winch sta. he wag put to k.., and after which he recovered. Something ha, been raid of late ha favour th amputation of the limb hit., in preference t; eauteriAdlioo of the part. Ilut, if the virus basun. entered the circulation, neither the..,,. nor the other an bent aiiy; avail. If the virus remains adherent to the woturi, but ouPide the circulation, the cauatic may dpv,n.y it, and so prevent its being taken into the circulation ; but if it haa once entered a, only a few minutes—or moments eren--would carry it beyond the limb, anl render ampulariou uselees. The only remedy then remain. in.,. will be son, remedy that C 313 expel it froe,. or neutrali-e or destroy it. in the circulation. Are there any etch remedies! I think there we. I think it may be expelled from the eystem by mean@ of the vap.ur bath. or excemive perepiration, however produral. m ehown in Op cage I have referral to. Ant I think that the virus might be neuvaliud ne destroyed in the circulation by the it.. !pion of ammonia into it through the... If mom:his mimed will destroy the thrum .1 Atim.trahan se,ent. BA Mr. 11.1fi.r.1 has elieFn. it eight he coply effective in destroying the virus of the ;nal dog. At all events it might be well to try it in e.,nie well marked case of bydrephobia ; rad 1 bare  • Paw. intonede . that it might be effective in de•troying the germ of the &sere aeon' incipient small-pox, typhoid fever, /Lc. Poseibly Neale of your reader.. who may have the A atii..ll•\ for the period I have indicated, may also have kenos to erre). hindexes for that i—riod, nod may give to the world throuch your w.d1.1-elde circulation, the complete narrative. whioh I . ouly give iipon the f•itls of a forty years' memory."