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From: "Fran Warren" <>
Subject: August 14, 1877 Van Buren Press
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 09:03:10 -0700


Van Buren Press
Crawford County, Arkansas

August 14, 1877
HYDROPHOBIA CURE
Take grated Horse Radish root, vinegar and sweet oil- that which is put up
in bottles and sold by the grocers. Give the patient all he can eat and keep
on his stomach, and at times apply to the wound as a poultice, changing it
every few hours. During the Civil War a squad of soldiers were sent to a
point for observation some 20 miles from camp. In passing a farm-house they
were attacked by a furious little dog and before he could be killed he had
bitten two of the men. The next day one of these men was attacked with
spasms and every symptom of hydrophobia. The messenger was sent to
headquarters for a surgeon. The man suffered so much that the command who
had cured snake bites with the above remedy, and having a bottle of
Horse-radish among his rations, applied it as above described. Before the
surgeon arrived the man was entirely relieved from spasms, but at the same
time another man was taken with like spasms. The surgeon learning the
symptoms and what had been done for the first man, had the second man
treated in the same way and with the same happy effect. In two or three days
both men were as well as ever and continued so. The writer had this
information from the officer in charge, and seeing that this horrible malady
is appearing frequently this season, deems it his duty to give it to the
public.
Fran Alverson Warren
e-mail:
501-369-2703
http://www.crawfordcountyarkansas.net/

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