From the Whitehaven News - Thursday, October 14, 1869 posted with permission of the transcriber, Diane Moore. Geo. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CURE FOR HYDROPHOBIA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A correspondent writes: "A case of hydrophobia was successfully treated in India in, I think, 1868. The patient was placed in a cane-bottomed chair and covered with blankets, a few grains of mercury were rubbed up with some sulfur and thrown on a pan containing burning charcoal. The pan was placed under the chair, frequent doses of mercury were administered, intense salivation set in-the patient was cured. Tonics and alum gargle removed the ill effects of the mercury. The case was reported in the Indian Medical Gazette, published at Calcutta by Messrs. WYMAN and Co. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~