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and fifty persons, bitten by animals believed to be rabid; 

 and in only three instances have symptoms supposed to 

 be hydrophobic supervened, and in each of these cases 

 the quantity of the plant actually taken was very in- 

 considerable. In two of them the symptoms dis- 

 appeared on taking more freely of the medicine. 



"Furthermore, the Scutellaria is said to have been 

 administered to more than eleven hundred brutes, 

 bitten by animals supposed to be rabid, and in no in- 

 stance have any symptoms of madness appeared, ex- 

 cepting in the cases communicated by Dr. Bartlett. 



"In more than one hundred instances it is said that 

 experiments have been made to test the antidotal 

 powers of this plant, by giving it to a part, only, of the 

 animals bitten, and it is stated that in every experiment, 

 those animals which did not take the Scutellaria have 

 died rabid; but in no instance have any of those which 

 took it had any indisposition." 



SCUTELLABIA AS A SECRET REMEDY. NOW Came 



the popular, newspaper era of the drug. In the year 

 1783 Mr. Daniel Lewis, of North Castle, New York, a 

 weaver, was bitten by a mad dog. He went to New 

 York for treatment, and was directed to Dr. Van Der- 

 veer of New Jersey. Dr. Van Derveer showed Mr. 

 Lewis the plant, and by giving him written directions, 

 taught him how to use it. Mr. Lewis recovered, and 

 having the formula, next told his neighbors that he 

 could cure hydrophobia, and began neighborhood treat- 

 ment, acquiring thus a local reputation. He kept the 

 name of the plant secret, using it only in form of powder, 

 and acquainting only his son with the formula. At his 

 death, 1810, he had treated successfully about one hun- 

 dred persons. A record of these cases is given by 



