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: [email protected] 501-369-2703 http://www.crawfordcountyarkansas.net/