My bair was so sensitive that 1 appear
ed to be able to count each separately
without looking at it. Saliva kept con
tinually forming in my mouth. Any
movemeut of air caused great pain to
me, and was obliged to avoid the sight
of brilliant objects. I had a continual
desire to bite not bninan beings, but
animals, and all that was near me. 1
drank with difficulty, and I remarked
that the sight of water distressed me
more than the pain in my throat 1
believe that by shutting the eyes any
one suffering from hydrophobia can al
ways drink. The fits came on every
fire miuutes, and I then felt the pain
start from the index finger and run up
the nerves to the shoulder. In this
state, thinking that my course was pre
servative, not curative, 1 took a vapor
bath, not with the iutention of cure,
but of suffocating' myself. When tbe
bath was at the heat of 52 centigrade
(93.3.5 Fareubeit), all the symptoms
disappeared as if by magic, and since
then 1 bave never felt anything more of
them. I bave attended more than
eighty persons bitten by mad animals,
aud 1 have not lost a single one."
When a person is bitten by a mad
dng, be must for seven successive days
take a vapor bath "a la Russe," as it
is called of 57 to 63 degrees. This
is a preventive remedy. A vapor bath
may be quickly made by potting three
oi four red hot bricks in a bucket or
tub of water, and let the patient sit
over it on a cane bottomed or willow
chair, enveloped in a large blanket, for i
fifteen or twenty minutes. When tbe ;
disease is declared, it ouly requires one j
vapor bath, rapidly increasing to 37 j
centigrade, then slowly to 53, and the
patient must strictly cut) line himself in
his chamber until the cure is complete.
