CURE FOR HYDROPHOBIA.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 105, 4 October 1879, Page 3

CURE FOR HYDROPHOBIA.

<l Every thing has. its übc "; and even , that wool growers .bane, the Bathurst ■burr, may yet rank amongst the most highly valued of medicinal plants. "VVe • take the following from tho British Medical Journal, which recommends the trial of the plan explained: Dr. Grzyvala of Kirvoe Ozero, Podolia (a Gove rnment of South "Western Russia) for whose - trustworthiness Professor Ghiqler, of Paris vouches, declares that, after a series of crucial trials, which he describes at length, he has found that, after having had opportunities p£ treating at least one hundred cases of men bitten by rabid dogs with tho Xarithinm spinosum (Bathurst burr), he has never, in any one of these cases, failed to ward off hydrophobia. He gives some startling examples During the Crimean war, a family of twelve persons had been bitten by hydrophobic wolf. Six of them entered his wards in the hospital of Olschanka, government of Podolia, district of Balta. They were treated with infusion of '"the leaves of xanthium, arid all reoove'rd. Tho other six, who wore 'treated with, actual cautery,, and- the daily use of •gonesJ#, and other drugs, died with' hy-. drop,hobia.i<».the_course of twelve to sixty days. •. He;j recounts many other facts not. less striking. -For an adult the dose; js.juxty.centigrammes of the dry powder, repeated tliree.times a day, and continued during six.weeks.. Children under twelve talie hajf'that; quantity. The dose for ajiimals is much larger. A herd of thirty •.vcxen, had been \bitten by a mad wolf} .eight.of. them had succumbed with symp- ; toms of hydrophobia. The 'Commissary ■of.pQljce sent to Dr. Grzyvala for his "' anti-rabio powder." He gave three ounces, of the powder, with bran, daily, to each of the animals; none of them ■'SufFered.frqni the disease. These are examples, of which Doctor Grzyvala says he has a hundred others. *" If hydrophobic should ever break- out in New' South Wales perhaps some one will remember this paragraph. The plant is well known and is to be found every-"where.-V