Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1859 — The “Mad-stone.” [ARTICLE]

T he “Mad-stone.”

We stated in our last that a Mr Mallory and Mr. Ward, of this city, had been bitten by a mad dog, and had gone to try the virtues of a “mad-stone” in the central part of this State. The parties returned home on Monday evening last; having applied the stone, and have every reason io believe that they are cured. Mr. Mallory called at our office on Tuesday, and gives the following account of the operation: He found the “mad-stone” in the possession of Mr. J. P. Evans, in Lincoln, Logan county, and described it as a small fleshcolored stone, about two inches broad, half an inch thick, and very porous. The stone was first placed in warm water for an hour, and applied to the flesh wound, when it adhered firmly for several hours, all the time apparently drawing, with a strong suction, the blood from all parts of he body. Alter remaining on severl hours, the stone, as it became charged with poison, became of iniiky whiteness, as also did the flesh immediately about the wound, when, all at once, it fell oft, and being placed in warm milk emitted a strong, offensive odor, and gradually discharged its contents into the milk, and assumed its natural color again. It was then again applied, with the same results, several times, until finally it would adhere no longer, and the patient was declared cured. The parties have all confidence in the treatment, and feel an assurance that they have averted an awful death—particularly as it has since been ascertained that the dog that bit them was really mad, and a mare, belonging to Mr. Bickerman, which was bit the same day, has already been attacked with hydrophobia, nnd is probably dead by k this time. Mr. Mallory states that there were several other patients, from various parts of the country, awaiting at Mr. Evans' to apply the stone, and that it had never been known to fail effecting a cure. —He try (Marshal Co-, 11l ,) Courier. o^7"At Geneo, it has been stated, the citizens take pleasure in treating the French i s ildiera, and even coffee-house keepers soirp'time? refuse to accept payment from them. One of those I alter declined to accept money for a glass of brandy, supplied to a Chessotqr de Vincennes, and when the soldier insisted, tho. otner said, “Instead of money, you mu t k; i an Austrian for me!” “In th it case," cried, the soldier, “give me | mother duo': of bri'nly and,l will kill you UVo.”