All this has been related in its particulars as an advice to others who may have a chance to get saliva from another dog. It might be of some use to get it from a male for comparison.
Symptoms were observed during the hours of trituration, as there had been triturating the Lachesis poison, and they were afterwards corroborated by provings with the lower; the very peculiar feelings of apprehension became so intolerable that the higher were preferred in further provings. Nothing was written for publication in the Archives until May, 1834. This was printed in the beginning of 1836, Archives, 15, l., p. 33.
To the provings of Schmid and Behlert were added those of John Redmond Cox, in 1853, when a suggestion was made that, in order to remove the stigma of cowardice in the profession, their shrinking from their first duty of proving remedies on themselves was made in a public meeting. Dr. Cox not only offered to prove it on himself, but on his entire family and his friends besides, and furnished us perhaps the best provings that have ever been made of Lyssin; he also furnished the day-books in which the symptoms were recorded.
Many of the most valuable symptoms were from provings by Hering, on himself, but he was prevented from continuing by the most terrible of apprehension.
Dr. Knerr made some valuable provings, in 1869, on a woman bitten by a dog in the fleshy part of right arm.
Dr. Lippe cured an important case in which he was guided by a symptom produced only from bites, but never observed any provings. But Lippe’s observation was confirmed by many other good observers. Some symptoms from bites of rabid dogs have been added:
Pasteur’s method of administration is very different from that employed by homoeopaths, but he is working on homoeopathic lines in seeking to neutralize a virus in the system by introducing a modification of the same virus. His experiments led him to produce the rabic poison in a highly intensified form in the spinal cords of rabbits. He then modified its intensity in different degrees by exposure to air for a longer or shorter period. Patients who come to the Institute are inoculated first with the least potent, and later with the most potent “Vaccine,” after which they are pronounced “cured.” The “cure” is however, extremely uncertain, as the degree of susceptibility to the poison is unknown in any case, and many hundreds of the patients subjected to the inoculations have died of the disease. Pasteur’s first method was admitted to be too strong, and was soon modified; a number of patients having died from the inoculations. One of these cases I investigated, and the symptoms were sufficiently striking to deserve recording.
The patient was Arthur Wilde, of Rotherham, aged 29, and I received the account from his mother, who nursed him through his illness. He had been bitten severely by a man suffering from hydrophobia, and was persuaded much against his wish, to go to Pasteur. This he did a few days after the bite, returning on October 19, 1886, after undergoing the course. On Saturday, October 30th, he complained of a pricking sensation below the ribs in the right side, in the part where the injections had been made. Pressure relieved the pain somewhat. That evening he vomited, and the vomiting continued, and he became very prostrate. On Monday the prostration was intense, vomiting continued; restless; skin cool, perspiring; quite conscious. The spots where the inoculations were made were dark and livid. Twitching occurred every few hours, sometimes more violently than others; most marked on the abdomen. From Monday through Tuesday he was making a peculiar loud noise, something like a waggoner driving horses, “bis,” “whoo,” though he had never had to do with horses. He seemed completely helpless. On Tuesday night vomiting ceased and he began to froth a great deal. Early on Wednesday morning he began to talk thick. His breathing, which had been peculiar all through-he would hold his breath for a long time when making the noise and then breathe rapidly for a few breaths- became very bad at 3 A.M. on Wednesday. He died shortly after 12, having been apparently conscious to the end, though unable to speak for the last hour. The frothing had increased up to the time of his death and he seemed to choke with it.
This case was paralleled by that of Goffi, an attendant at St. Thomas Hospital, who was bitten by a cat and sent to Pasteur. On his return he was taken ill, and his case was at first diagnosed as Landry’s paralysis, but finally proved (by experiments made with his spinal cord) to be “paralytic rabies, ” the result of inoculation. It was after the occurrence of these and similar “accidents” that the intensity of the “vaccines” was reduced. – CLARKE.
Thus nearly fifty years after the experiments of Hering with the virus of hydrophobia, Pasteur’s work began. But, on account of the crude preparation, like Koch’s experiments with Tuberculin, many of Pasteur’s cases were fatal. No better illustration can be found in medicine of the scientific accuracy and its successful clinical demonstration than is to be had in the results of the labors of these two men. The homoeopathic methods have been demonstrated to be not only accurate and scientific, but safe and efficacious.
The following case is from El Siglo Medico: Finally swallowing was impossible, restraint had to be used to prevent him biting his nurses in the hospital, when, as a last resource, a piece of Agave was offered to the boy by the doctor in attendance, cut from a hedge of the plant with which the hospital grounds were fenced. To the astonishment of all, the boy reached for it and ate it greedily, almost without chewing. By evening a decrease in the violence of the nervous attacks was manifest, though they remained as frequent as before. The improvement was slow but continued. On the fourth day he took some nourishment, but also continued chewing Agave and swallowing the juice. On the fifth day he recovered consciousness, but still demanded Agave. On the eighth day he said he did not want any more, as “it tasted too bitter and caused a burning in the mouth.”
Fagus: Dread of liquids; profuse salivation; swelling of the mouth; intense frontal headache, trembling, convulsions with periodic spasms; stiffness and coldness; pointing to the same kind of nerve irritation as caused by the poison of rabies.
Lachesis is closely allied ( Agg. from sun; bluish discoloration of wounds and ulcers; irritability; agg. from warm, damp air; from touch and a pressure; agg. after sleep; and Clarke adds, “though the late evolution of Lyssin is in striking contrast with the lightning like rapidity of the effects of snake venom”).
Characteristics
The sight or sound of running water or pouring water aggravates all complaints.
Lyssophobia; fear of becoming mad; exceedingly apprehensive.
Bluish discoloration of wounds (Lach).
Complaints resulting from abnormal sexual desire (from abstinence, Conium).
Mental emotion or mortifying news always makes him worse (Gels).
Cannot bear heat of sun ( Gelsemium, Gloninum, Lachesis, Nat.).
Convulsions: from dazzling or reflected light from water or mirror (Stramonium), from even thinking of fluids of any kind; from slightest touch or current of air.
Headache: from bites of dogs, whether rabid or not; chronic, from mental emotion or exertion; agg. by noise of running water or bright light.
Saliva: tough, ropy, viscid, frothy in mouth and throat, with constant spitting (Hydrastis).
Sore throat, constant desire to swallow ( Lac-c., Mercurius) Difficulty in swallowing, even spasm of esophagus from swallowing liquids; gagging when swallowing water.
Constant desire to urinate on seeing running water (Cantharis, Sulphur); urine scanty, cloudy, contains sugar.
Prolapsus uteri; many cases of years standing cured.
Leucorrhea, profuse, running down the legs (Alumina, Syphilinum, Tub) Sensitiveness of vagina, rendering coition painful.
Mind
Loses consciousness for a moment.
Loss of consciousness sometimes at an early stage, but not generally until a short time before death.
Does not see nor hear persons around him.
Memory for single words much improved.
Strange sensation in head, with loss of memory.
Does not converse as well as usual, but plays chess better; more inclined to reflect than talk; not at all lively.
Thoughts of something terrible going to happen come into his mind against his will; feels impelled to do reckless things, such as throwing child, which he carries in his arms, through the window, and the like.
Could not get rid of the indescribable tormenting feeling that something terrible was going to happen to him.
Fits of abstraction, takes hold of wrong things, often does not know what he wants, says wrong words which have but a remote similarity of sound.
They appreciate the formidable character of the disease and speak frequently with a remarkable quick and sharp articulation of the impending fatal results.
During the tranquil intervals responded correctly to questions put to him, recognized those around him, and with a presentiment of impending death begged them to pray for him and not to leave him alone.
