Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1878 — Cure for Hydrophobia. [ARTICLE]

Cure for Hydrophobia.

This dreadful disease, which has always been considered incurable, seems in a fair way of yielding to medical treatment. It appears that the Arabs have a secret remedy for it in the shape of fragments of a beetle tolerably common in Tunis. These fragments are taken internally, and, according to the recent reports of a French savant, possess powerful vesicating properties, and it would endanger the patient’s life to increase the dose too much. The Arabs are unanimous in affirming the efficacy of this remedy, which will act, however, only during the eighteen or twenty days subsequent to the biting. It scarcely admits of a doubt that the remedy occasions attacks of colic, and, being extremely powerful, should be administered only with the greatest prudence. Whether this be the only known remedy or not remains to be shown, but it should put the doctors on the right track.