THE ADVOCATE OF INDUSTRY AND JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC MECHANICAL AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS. SUTTON'S AIR HEATING FURNACE. THE BY MUNN dr COMPANY. Hydrophobia. Some seeds have been received at the Pat ent Office from New Orleans for distribu tion which are used in St. Bernard's Parish Louisiana for the cure of hydrophobia. The plant originally came from Mexic and the seeds alone are employed for effecting a cure of this peculiar disease. The way to use it is to steel) the seeds in wine for about 24 hours—three seeds is a full dose—and three doses are given to a patient every day for nine days. The discovery of a perfect antidote for hydrophobia would really be one of the most important ever made in medicine for although many substances have from time to time been brought forward as curatives still no one has really proved so. The case of a patient who died in the New York Hospital on the 15th of last month proves that this disease is not altogether well named. The physician found that the most distressing ic action of the muscles concerned in this function extending sometimes even to those of the neck and chest and producing a feel ing of alarming constriction of the organs of respiration causing almost complete though temporory suffocation and thus ag gravating if not actually exciting the con vulsions with the more or less violent con tortions and discoloration of the counte nance protrusion of the eyeballs and other active and painful symptoms. But he expe even took some in his mouth but found great pain in an endeavor to swallow it. He was Carefully treated with cool cloths ap plied to his head mustard poultices to his feet and the administration of anodyne and nourishing enemata but he died in twenty hours after he was admitted. The peculiarity of the hydrophobia poi son is that it may slumber in the system for some time and then begin to exert its terri ble power in some unexpected moment This patient was bitten five weeks before he was taken to the hospital and
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