Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1878 — Curing Hydrophobia. [ARTICLE]

Curing Hydrophobia.

Many years Hatch, of Northumberland, a wealthy fanner, had three or four children bitten by a rabid dog. On the first symptoms of rabies in the children he started for the ocean. Portland was the nearest point and 125 miles distant, but he reached it in about twenty hours by a frequent change of horses, and immediately put the children on board a sailing craft and took them out a short distance, and, fastening weights to them, three times sank them in the sea, keeping them under as long as was safe without extinguishing life.

The effect of the submerging was the cure of the children. Alpha, one of the bitten children, had hydrophobia spasms, and would snap her teeth, froth at the mouth, and bark like a dog before reaching Portland. This individual, now nearly seventy-five years old, resides in Bethlehem, and Mrs. Charlotte Waters, now living in Stratford, was one of the bitten children. The dog that bit the children bit several animals that subsequently became rabid and were killed. —Littleton, {N. H) Republic.