Show hydrophobia t cure for he the dread mien sald 0 to o be discovered X N Y sun SUIL for sonio some time eaid said a prominent physician of jersey jerrey jerr ey city to a new york sim reporter T 1 have been investigating the subject of hydrophobia I 1 think I 1 shall be able to demonstrate that iu in boora ra a drug prepared by the indiana indians of south Ai america we have haven a remedy for that disease t it isa is a popular impress impression sion ho be conti n tied th at hydrophobia a a almost niest niost inevitably follows the bite of ofa a mad dog this ia is a mistake perhaps not more than once in a hundred cases of biting does the disease ensue for many years the practice of physicians in treating tho the bito bite of a mad dog lias has been to cauterize the wounds as soon as possible if this operation was performed early enough it was believed that no serious results would ensue the great writer on the dog was convinced of the efficacy of this treatment HP ile allowed himself repeatedly peat edly bitten by mad dogs logs and cauterized the wounds successfully but that the remedy is not infallible is certain N buatt permitted himself to bo bitten once too often and in spite of his caustic ho he soon discovered that he was in the incipient stages of hydrophobia despairing sp lofever of ever being able to recover he lie blew his own brains out rather than suffer the agony which lie anticipated the tile treatment employed in cases where the disease has actually developed varies the object to be c gained is to mitigate the ysis of the patient for in I 1 hydrophobia 11 iro death results from e exhaustion produced by the violence of the convulsions various drugs have been used but with little success at last however we wo have a dru drug which lias has recently been kno known to cure several authentic cases of hydrophobia and which when its nature is properly understood may prove of the greatest value I 1 mean the 0 of f the Per drach indians waterton 1 writing in 1811 gave an account of ofa a kind of for curing snake bites lie ile said it was mado in a 0 of many curious curious ingredients ingredient including the looram vine two kinds of bulbous plant plants the names of which he did not know two species of ants the strongest indian pepper epper and powdered fangs of the Ea lahorian La borian snake the mixture was boiled and then placed in small ear carthern thern pots to cool gool lie ile suggested that if this was efficacious to cure the bite of a snake it might ba be of use in the treatment of f hydrophobia ab ob ia nevertheless it was never used f for or that purpose although occasionally casio nally rel referred cared to in scientific works recently dr luenburg Ou Of enburg in germany treated successfully success full a hydrophobia patient with a species ot of woo rara obtained froin indians in brazil what this is or how it is manufactured we do not know it is beyond doubt a decre vegetable substance it ii 13 sold by the the indians na as a it cure for snake bites and is brought brou glit by them packed in iv leaf covered jars into para parn where it finds a ready aready market as the reptiles around there are numerous and and venomous it is a potent poison and in its action when taken in fatel dose doses produces death by paralysis it relaxes all the muscles inus cles in in which respect it diners froll f roin strychnine and tho the other poisons that produce convulsions convulsion 3 1 I procured some of it and after reducing it to a solution e experimented cheri with it to tl try 1 its power soon after these te tests st I t us used ed it in in a p pronounced renounced case caso of hydrophobia end and it proved entirely successful 1 I was called in great haste to visit mr Ir C ho ile was evidently in the incipient stage of hydrophobia I 1 learned that some come months before a young newfoundland d do bit the servant girl both of mr Cs children and a nephew when mr C went to examine tho the dog the animal bit him through gli the index finger of the right hand the tile dog was drowned mr CA C s wound rea read f ily y healed the servant girl died of unmistakable rabies I 1 mr 0 had been low spirited nervous and ir ir for about ten daya days before sending for me I 1 prescribed one olle twelfth ofa of a grain of every three hours and sent rent for dr flint of new york wo we decided to an con dinue this treatment on tile fifth day lay be was seized with such violent bour paroxysms aroxy sms that if repeated three or four times they would surely have proved fatal ho ile believed ho be was about to die dle I 1 gave him bini a subcutaneous injection of one sixteenth of a grain of woo rara he lie had slept very very little before but twenty manu tes after the injection lio lie 21 asleep p three hours later he be aw awoke oc and I 1 gave him an injection of one ninth of a it gram grain of wo woo orarn rara which put him to sleep again in about three hours I 1 gave him another ia injection action of one sixth ofa of a grain which hi c ii was followed by a natural sleep two hours later ho be was vet quiet and rational ration til declaring that he e was feeling perfectly well and all his unfavorably symptoms bad had vanished he ile lias hns never since shown any more symptoms of the disease now bowl I 1 am satisfied thatis that if wo ave can obtain genuine fresh woo arft rara of uniform sarf strength ngtai wo we shall bo be able to successfully combat this disease provided the remedy be aimini 4 ja fsr oar early y enough but the trouble with 11 arara orara isthan its strength varies so that it cannot bo be safely used until it has been cam carefully fully tested I 1 am now trying to extract from pure homra ft its alkaloid known as cur arino it I 1 succeed the difficulty arising from the varying strength cf ef in a 0 given volume will be over overcome come for the alkaloid will possess uniform strength in equal quantities with that object in view I 1 entered recently into correspondence with secretary of state Freling huygen and ho lie instructed instruct eAl the american consuls at para and mad other gouth south amer american i can ports to forr forward ard specimen 4 of the tile drug with all the information they can procure about it we await their replies |