Year: 1879




l know and respect your contempt
for empricism and the interference Of
old women in medical matters; and
so would respectfully refer you to DR..
Kelly, whose Office is on West Jackson
street, above Wood, two doors from
the residence Of Mr.. Wright, late
candidate for Mayor Of this city. DR..
Kelly is Of the regular school; was
Executive Officer Of Campbell Hospi-
tai during all the time spent in it;
was Operating Surgeon and Attendant
Physician, under DR.. Baxter surgeon
in charge, now United States Medical
Purveyor, and l was nurse, in the test
case which proved that q bone taken
out of the human body may be repro
duced, even when the periosteum may
be destroyed, and is certainly torn to
shreds and driven in fragments
through the muscle. Well, DR.. Kelly
permits me to refer to him, and will,
1 think, tell you that l am not likely
to make a suggestion without reason.
Dr.Baxter willalso, ! think, recommend
a trial Of any treatment that ] should
insist upon and | do insist that you
shall give the "Old Chester County
Cure for Hydrophobia" fair trial,
and publish the result.


/ know from nnquestionable au-
thority that, in the early part Of this
century, an ignorant German Of Ches-
ter county, Pennsylvania, acquired
and kept until his death in extreme
old age, very wide spread reputation
for curing hydrophobia; that he guar
ded his secret carefully, and always
attended his patients in person. He
carried his medicine with him, and it
was known to be root which he him
self procured in the woods. He
stewed a portion Of this root in pint
of sweet milk, which he himself drew
from the COW; stewed it slowly, and
stirred it for half hour; then gave
it to his patient fasting-i. e., before
breakfast ; permitted him to take nei-
ther food nor drink, except water, for
six hours after taking the milk; and
repeated the dose on three successive
mornings.


Intelligent people of that county
have assured me that no instance OF
failure was known in any case he
treated, and that, in one, the patient
had been seized by spasms before his
arrival, so that the medicine was ad-
ministered by force, and the patient
recovered.


Upon the old mans death son
sold his recipe for 81, and it was sim
ply two ounces of elecampane root
stewed in a pint Of milk, and given
SO that the digestive organs would
have nothing to do but appropriate
it. When it produced nausea, he gave
the dose slowly but always warm.


Now, we know that elecampane il
highly medical, and that milk is al
antidote for most poisons. We know
that all schools of medicine agree il
having failed to discover any remedy
for this terrible malady /; and is it tOt
much to ask you, as men in sympa,
thy with the so1rows Of the race, tt
give this cure careful consideration
Ihave been publishing it for about
eight years. One man in Ohio wrote
the Cincinnati Commercial to say thai
he had tried it in the case of twenty
animals, cows and hogs, bitten by
rabid dog. Two yoars after no evi
effects had appeared. Four persons
have written to ne for the recipe aftel
after having been bitten, and none 0
them have taken Hydrophobia.


am moved to address you now by
the fact Of having received a lette1
from a gentleman in this city, wht
has recently been bitten, and by thu
fact that it reached me in time, as by
accident, on the day ! returned from
northern Minnesota, where had gone
to spend the summer.


find it useless to try to get thu
people to cut the recipe out of th'
paper and preserve it; and, if this
cure is what | believe it to be, i
should be known to every doctor ani
every one whose life is endangered
by the dog keeping mania which pro
claims the lingering barbarism of th'
race.


What ! propose to you is, that yol
take measures to secure a rabid dog
shut him up, and expose animals t,
his bite; treat some with the elecam
pane and milk, others with any othel
specific, and leave some withou
treatment. This would test its eff
cacy, and leave some scientific Ger.
tainty about the nature of this dis
ease and its remedy. In the mean
time, shall insist thar that the ele