Wisconsin girl survives rabies

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Sheri Nakken wrote:
HYDROPHOBIA/RABIES
Hahnemann (CD)
(It is just so with the infection of half - acute miasmas without eruption.
Among many persons bitten by mad dogs - thanks to the benign ruler of the world
- only few are infected, rarely the twelfth; often, as I myself have observed,
only one out of twenty or thirty persons bitten. The others even if ever so
badly mangled by the mad dog, usually all recover, even if they are not treated
by a physician or surgeon.) But with whomsoever the poison acts, it has taken
effect in the moment when the person was bitten, and the poison has then
communicated itself to the nearest nerves and, therefore, without
contradiction, to the whole system of the nerves, and as soon as the malady has
been developed in the whole organism (for this development and completion of
the disease nature requires at least several days, often many weeks), the
madness breaks out as an acute, quickly fatal disease. Now if the venomous
spittle of the mad dog has really taken effect, the infection usually has taken
place irrevocably in the moment of contagion, for experience shows that even
the immediate excision and amputation of the infected part does not protect
from the progression of the disease within, nor from the breaking out of the
hydrophobia - therefore, also, the many hundreds of other much lauded external
means for cleansing, cauterizing and suppurating the would of the bite can
protect just as little from the breaking out of the hydrophobia.
(Unsorted)
--(mad [sen] dog)
--(dog [sen] bite)
--hydrophobia/rabies
: abel., abrot.36, acet-ac.8, achy-a.97, acon.36, aconin.36, aegle-f.97, aesc.,
agar.8, agav-a.223, agn., alco.10, all-c.108, all-s., alth., alum.36, am-c.1,
am-caust.102, ammi-v., anag.8, anan.223, anet-g., ang.54, ange-a., ant-c.5,
anthr.56, ap-g.233, apis5, apisin., apoc.188, aran.47, arg-n.54, arist-cl.119,
arn.8, ars.5, art-v.8, arum-dru., asaf.1020, asim., aspar.8, atro.100, aven.,
aza., ball-n., baros., bell.5, berb., beta., botul., brom., bruc.10, bufo,
cac., calad.102, calc.1, calc-p.54, calen.1140, calo.97, camph.5, camph-br.,
cann-i.25, cann-s.1020, canth.5, carc., card-m., caru., caust.54, cedr.22,
cench.85, chin.1181, chin-s.10, chlf.15, chlol.8, chlor.54, choc.222, chr-ac.8,
cich., cist.8, cit-l., coc-c.36, cocci-s.223, coch., con.527, cor-r., cori-m.,
corn-f., corv-c.258, croc., crot-h.8, cuc-p., cupr.5, cupr-acet., cur.8, cyno.,
dauc., drym., dulc.1020, echi.85, eucal., eup-per., euph-l., euph-v., fago.,
fagu.36, falco-p., fic-c., foen., frag., frax., gels.5, gent-c.223, gink.,
glyc-g., goss., grat., grin.54, gua.223, gunp.1028, gymne.102, haem., helia.,
hippoz.102, hist., ho.223, hura36, hydph., hydr.54, hydr-ac.5, hydrang.,
hyos.1, hyper.223, indg., inul.2051, iod.1, iris, jab.1028, jatr.5, jug-r.,
kali-br., kali-c.1, kali-chl., kali-ma.102, kali-n.1, lac-ac.94, lac-c.214,
lac-d., lach.5, laur.5, laur-n., led.102, leon., lith-br., lob.4066, lup.,
lyc.1, lycpr., 3Lyss.5, mag-m.1, mand., mangi., marr.223, menth.4066, meph.,
merc.5, moly.188, morbill.108, mosch.102, mur-ac., naja15, nat-c.10, nat-m.54,
nig-s.223, nit-ac.1, nux-v.5, oci-b., oeno., ol-suc.194, olea, orig-v., passi.,
past., paull-p., pelt-c., per.85, pers., phel., phos.1, phyll., phys., pin-s.,
plan., plan-c., plb.5, plume., podo., polyg., polyg-a., polyst.214, prun.,
prun-c., prun-d., psor.56, puls., pyrog.102, querc., ran-s.15, raph.231,
rck-r-b., rhus-t., ribs-n., ric., ros-d., rumx.36, rumx-a., ruta5, sabad.5,
salx-a., samb., sanguis., schin., scut.11, semp.94, seneg.4066, sil.1,
sisy.102, sol-n.4066, sol-t., solid., sorb-au., spin-o., spirae.1016, squil.,
2stram.1, stry.36, stry-s.110, sulph.5, tab.38, tanac.11, tann-ac., tarent.5,
ter.8, thea., ther.38, thuj.62, til., trach.36, trib., trig-f-g., tus-fa.,
urt-d., uva., vacc-m., valer., verat.5, vesp.54, viol-o., viol-t., vip.11,
vip-r.10, visc.223, vitis, xan.102, xanth., zing.

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SAINE
Andre Saine (1988):

"Rabies-allopathy has cured 2 cases with iron lung etc. type treatment.

Homeopathy has cured several recorded cases.

5 powders for treatment of Rabies (the different Stages):
stages 1,3,5-Belladonna 200C
stage 2 -Hyoscyamus 200C
stage 4 -Stramonium 200C
other stages-Lyssin 200C

(see also other remedies listed for hydrophobia)"

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CLARKE

Hydrophobia Immediately after the bite suck the wound, and whilst sucking,press
the parts around in the direction of the wound. After everything possible has
been drawn from the wound, the best remedy is heat - whatever is handiest -
red-hot iron or coals, or alighted cigar, to be brought as near the wound as
possible without causingviolent pains and without burning the skin - as close,
in fact, as thepatient can bear it. Several pieces should be put in the fire so
that one can be used as another cools. The skin around the wound may be smeared
with oil, or fat, or soap,or saliva to protect it. All that oozes from the
wound should be wiped away. The applications should be repeated three or four
times a day, for an hour each time or until shuddering appears, and this should
be repeatedseveral days. Afterwards the patient should take daily one or more
Turkish orRussian baths for a fortnight. Hydrob. 30 should be taken three
times a day for a week, and then Bell. 3 night and morning for six months at
least. If, in spite of all precautions, the disease should show itself,
thepatient should at once be removed to a Turkish bath, or placed in a russian
bath and kept in it . Bell. 1x should be given hypodermically every half-hour,
and afterwards, should Bell. not succeed, Stram. 1x - 12,every half-hour in the
same way. If there is excessive sensitiveness and the patient wants to tear
theclothing away from his throat, Lach. 6, 1/2h. If the characteristics spasm
of the throat at the sight or sound ofwater, bright objects or draught of air
is marked, Hydrob. 30, 1/2h. Other remedies are (1) Agave f ; 2h. (2) Hyo. 1 -
30, 2h.(3) Canth. 3, 2h. (4) Fagus 1, 2h.

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LILIENTHAL
Hydrophobia/rabies: bell., 2canth., hyos., lach., 2lyss., scut., stram.,
tanac., vip.

Hydrophobia/rabies:
bell.,
[MENINGITIS, ENCEPHALITIS.] Simple meningitis; boring with the head into the
pillow; sensitiveness to light and noise; or for violent burning and stitching
pains in the head; red sparkling eyes, with furious look; red and bloated face;
sopor, with distorted and half - opened eyes; heat in the head, with violent
throbbing of the carotids; swelling of the veins of the head; head hot, body
and extremities cold; loss of consciousness and speech, or muttering; violent
delirium; convulsive movements of the limbs; spasmodic constriction of the
throat, with difficult deglutition and other hydrophobic symptoms; vomiting;
involuntary discharge of urine and feces.
[RABIES CANINA.] Throbbing headaches from within outward, stabbings in brain;
pains over scalp, as after violently pulling the hair; distorted features; pale
face, with thirst, sweat only on face; sensitiveness of hearing; spasmodic
distortion of mouth; head drawn backward and bruised buried in pillow;
dysphagia for water; violent, small, frequent, anxious respiration; convulsive
movements of limbs, with lassitude and anxiousness; extreme sensibility to cold
air; delirious prattle about dogs which surround him; desirous of dying when
free from rage, wants to bile those around him, bites, spits.
[HYDROPHOBIA, Rabies Canina, Lyssa.] - Throbbing headache from within outward,
stabbings in the brain; pain externally over whole head, as after violently
pulling the hair; distracted features; paleness of face, or bright - red face
with throbbing carotids, with thirst; sweat only on the face; increased
sensitiveness of the meatus auditorius; spasmodic distortion of the mouth; the
head is backward, burying the head in the pillow; great trouble in swallowing
water; violent, small, frequent, anxious respiration; convulsive movements of
the limbs, with lassitude and anxiousness; extreme sensibility to cold air;
delirious prattle about dogs, which swarm around him; desirous of dying when
free from rage; he wants to bite those around him, bites and spits.

2canth.,
[HYDROPHOBIA, Rabies Canina, Lyssa.] - Alternate paroxysms of rage and
convulsions, excited by touching the larynx, by making pressure upon the
abdomen and by the sight of water; face pale, yellow and wrinkled, with a
constant frown and expression of great suffering; burning and dryness of the
mouth; excessive desire for sexual intercourse, with constant painful erections
and continual itching and burning of the internal sexual parts; inflammatory
symptoms more present than convulsive ones; dyspepsia.

[CONVULSIONS OR SPASMS DURING AND AFTER LABOR] Convulsions, with dysuria and
hydrophobic symptoms; bright light, drink, sound of falling water, or the mere
touch causes a renewal of the spasms; face swollen and puffy; urine scalding,
dark and scanty, with frequent desire; albuminuria, cylindrical casts, mucus
and shreds in urine; vulva swollen and sensitive; convulsions with retained
placenta or membranes, eyes bright, pupils widely dilated; face pale and
yellowish, bearing an expression of deep - seated suffering.

[RABIES CANINA.] Alternate paroxysms of rage and convulsions, excited by
touching larynx, by making pressure upon abdomen, by the sight of water;
burning and dryness of mouth; excessive sexual nisus with constant painful
erections and continual itching and burning of internal sexual organs;
inflammatory symptoms prevail over convulsive ones.

hyos.,
[RABIES CANINA.] Posterior part of throat affected; frequent hawking up of
mucus; thirst and dryness in throat; constriction of throat and inability to
sallow; unquenchable thirst; violent sweat after thirst; mental derangement
with occasional muttering; horrid anguish, fits of anxiety; moves about from
one place to another; concussive startings; alternating with trembling and
convulsions; strange fear that he will be bitten by animals.

[HYDROPHOBIA, Rabies Canina, Lyssa.] - Posterior part of throat affected;
hawking up of mucus; thirst and dryness in throat; constriction of throat with
inability to swallow; unquenchable thirst; violent sweat after thirst; mental
derangement with occasional muttering; horrid anguish, fits of anxiety; moves
about from one place to another concussive startings, alternating with
tremblings and convulsions; strange fear that he will be bit by animals;
excessive sweat.

lach.,
[RABIES CANINA.] Deep stinging throughout the whole head; tearing lancinations
in forehead, above eyebrows; distortion of face; hurried talking with headache;
red face, mental derangement and constrictive sensation in throat; difficulty
of swallowing food or drink or saliva; dryness of pharynx and esophagus,
preventing deglutition; convulsions and spasms, with violent shrieks; sopor
after cessation of pains.

2lyss.,
[RABIES CANINA.] Slight dizziness and nausea; severe headache with stiffness of
jaws and numb hands; twitching of face and hands; face pale, yellow, nearly
brown; mouth full of saliva and total disinclination to drink; saliva viscid
with constant spitting; sensation of inability to swallow, but can do so when
trying; violent spasms of throat with sense of suffocation; constrictive
sensation in throat, much worse when swallowing liquids.
scut.,
[HYDROPHOBIA, Rabies Canina, Lyssa.] - Depression of the nervous and vital
powers; spasmodic or constricting closing of the jaws, tightness of the muscles
of face; nervous agitation from pain; sleeplessness; frightful dreams;
tremulousness and twitching of muscles (Hale).

stram.,
[RABIES CANINA.] Afraid to be alone; great desire to bile and to tear himself
with his teeth; wants to bile those around him, with screams and rage; fancies
full of fright and terror, staring eyes, pupils dilated, turgid swollen face,
bloody froth at mouth, excessive restlessness; aversion to water and liquids;
frequent spitting, slaver hanging out of mouth; horrible convulsions; stiffness
of the whole body.

[HYDROPHOBIA, Rabies Canina, Lyssa.] - Afraid to be alone; great desire to bite
and tear himself with his teeth; wants to bite those around him, with a
terrible cry and rage; fancies full of fright and terror, staring eyes, and
pupils dilated, turgid swollen face, bloody froth at mouth, excessive
restlessness; aversion to watery liquids; frequent spitting, slaver hanging out
of the mouth; stiffness of the whole body; any bright object causes furious
delirium, spasms of throat and horrible convulsions.

tanac.,
[HYDROPHOBIA, Rabies Canina, Lyssa.] - Great weakness of legs, with general
prostration of strength; tendency to bite; voracious depraved appetite; frothy
mucositis of respiratory organs; convulsions followed by long - lasting coma;
consciousness preserved during convulsions; ears hot; veins swollen and
turgescent; opisthotonos; spasms of the muscles of pharynx, larynx, of the
whole thorax; abundant salivation; asphyxia; harsh, characteristic cry;
diminution of sensibility and of motion; momentary paralysis; sub - pleural
hemorrhages and hemorrhagic infarcts of the liver (P. Jousset).

vip.
[HYDROPHOBIA, Rabies Canina, Lyssa.] - Raving delirium, wandering as if drunk;
great mental depression, finally loss of consciousness with swelling;
staggering with vertigo and falling forward; raging pains in head, jaws and
abdomen, with general spasms; eyes red, inflamed, watery, later on sunken; loss
of vision; epistaxis with vertigo (Crotal.); face expressing terror, pale;
edema of face; salivation, with deathly faintness; speech thick and
inarticulate; difficult deglutition; hunger and craving for cold drinks; pain
in abdomen alternating with pains in navel; oppression in chest, with great
precordial anxiety; pulse irregular, small, rapid; limbs swollen, painful;
gangrene.
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PROPHYLAXIS OF HYDROPHOBIA (RABIES)

Hydrophobia/rabies [sen] prophylaxis/protection/prevention: acet-ac., anag.,
arg-n., bell., camph., canth., hyos., 3Lyss., scut., stram., tanac.

acet-ac.,
(Jones) Mad Dog bite. - "Bathe the wound with hot vinegar and wipe dry, then
pour into it several drops of nitric acid; this is an unfailing preventive of
Hydrophobia. "

anag.,
(Marcy)The ancients esteemed it a counter - poison, and in modern times it has
been used as a preventive of Hydrophobia; but at present no faith is placed in
its alexipharmic powers. It is, nevertheless, not wholly inactive, as Orfila
found three drachms of it sufficient to destroy a dog, with marks of
inflammation of the bowels. Another species considered by Linnaeus as a mere
variety of the A - arvensis, is A - coerulca, distinguished by its blue
flowers. The medicinal properties of the two, as far as is known, are the same.
(7.)
The expressed juice of the whole plant is used. (51.)

arg-n.,
(Marcy) As a preventive against hydrophobia, Mr. Youatt, a most competent
authority, extols the Nitrate of Silver, Immediately on the bite being
discovered, the caustic should be freely applied to the wound; an eschar forms,
and the ulcer should be allowed to discharge freely for some weeks. Mr. Youatt
states that he has employed it four times on his own person when bitten by
rabid dogs, and that by the early and free use of remedy he has experienced no
ill consequences. Others, however, have not been so successful in its use, and
it appears on the whole that excision of the part is the safer plan. When,
however, the Nitrate is used, it should be sharpened to a point, and applied
freely to every recess and sinuosity of the wound. The same remarks apply to
the bites of the cobra and other venomous snakes. (44. 46.)

bell.,
(Hahnemann in Tyler) Hahnemann says that a study of the symptoms of Belladonna
shows that it corresponds in similarity to a number of commonly met with morbid
states, and is therefore frequently applicable for curative purposes. That the
small - souled persons who cry out against its poisonous character, and let
their patients die for want of Belladonna, because they "have mild remedies for
these diseases" only betray their ignorance, "for no medicine ca be a
substitute for another. "
And he teaches that the most violent poisons will become the mildest of
remedies, "provided that they are given in appropriate smallest doses." He
says, by a hundred - fold experience at the sick bed during the last eight or
ten years, the could not help descending to the decillion - fold dilution (the
30th potency). Besides its prophylactic powers in scarlet fever, he finds it
the best preventive of hydrophobia, given at first every third or fourth day,
and then at longer intervals. And indeed Belladonna has many of the symptoms of
hydrophobia: the fear of water, the attempts to bite: the spasm of the throat
that prevents swallowing, the mania, the delirium, in which he is "in terror of
dogs" - "surrounded by dogs", and so on.

camph.,
(Hamilton Flora) Schmucker praises Camphor as a prophylactic of hydrophobia
(Schneider's Warnh. aus d. Wund. Arz., vol. ii. p. 114). Selle makes it an
ingredient of his potio antilyssa. G. A. Richter (l.c., p.375) remarks that it
appears likely to be of great service in symptomatic hydrophobia; and Alix
asserts having cured a declared hydrophobia with Camphor (Obs. Chir., Fasc.
iii. p. 177; E. Krugelstein, Die Gesch. d. Hundwuth, etc., p. 555). Brumwell
relates of a dog evincing signs of hydrophobia after having Camphor given him
(Med. Observ. and Inquir., vol. vi.p. 229; Murray, l. c., p. 476). The animals
on which Carminati and Menghini experimented with Camphor were taken first with
giddiness, then with rage, stupor, dread, rattling in the throat, sighing,
screaming, foaming at the mouth, sobbing, trembling, convulsions, and even
epilepsy (Comp. Murray, l.c., pp. 475, 480, 487, 504, 517, 519, etc.).

canth.,
(Boericke) Prophylactics for: hydrophobia. 0>4>0

hyos.,
(Boericke) Prophylactics for: hydrophobia. 0>4>0

3Lyss.,
(Hering) It may be a prophylactic to hydrophobia, but never without at the same
time applying radiate heat to the part bitten, and frequent sessions in hot
room of Turkish bath, during the attack remedies are to be applied according to
symptoms.

In June, 1831, Hering published a letter in Stapf's Archives, Vol. 10, which
was dated June 18th, 1830, in which he says: "The proving of snake poison might
pave the way to the prevention of hydrophobia and variola by the proving of
their respective morbific poisons."

(P. Sankaran) HYDROPHOBINUM (LYSSIN)
This nosode is prepared from the saliva of a rabid dog. The interest here
is that Hering's work with this virus preceded Pasteur's discovery by some
fifty years.
It is used as prophylactic in cases of bites from rabid animal, dog, wolf,
bat or other. It is, nevertheless, of vital importance in as such as the
disease once developed in invariably fatal. This nosode should be given after
any dogbite whether the dog is mad or otherwise.
Gibson says "Any steps available should, therefore, be taken without delay
in the event of such a bite or even a slight scratch or abrasion. As an
additional precaution this nosode could also be given. "
A peculiar aggravation is that all complaints are made worse by the sight
or sound of running water. Mentally there is a fear of becoming insane.
Convulsion may be induced by dazzling light or light reflected from water or a
mirror, or even by light touch or a current of air. The sight of running water
causes a desire to urinate.
The heat of the sun is not tolerated.
It is said to be of value in long - standing cases of uterine prolapse.
Berridge reports a case of hydrophobia in which the nosode produced
euthanasia.
Woodbury says "In sex difficulties of women at the mid - century, Med. or
Syph. may be needed. Or if spasms are present and the patient wakes in the
night with lascivious thoughts, consider Lyss. "References
Berridge E. W.: Hom. W. 16, 207, 1881.
Woodbury B. C.: Hom. Rec.: 93, 786, 1928.

scut.,
(Clarke) Rafinesque cites cases of prevention of hydrophobia,
(Millspaugh) About the first introduction of this plant into medicine was the
experiments of Dr. Vandesveer, in 1772, who claimed to have found it curative
and prophylactic in canine rabies, his reported cases being fourteen hundred;
this seems a large number to fall to the lot of one physician; his son after
him claimed the cure of forty cases more in three years. On account of the
apparently slight properties inherent in this species by physical examination
its worthiness was greatly doubted and the plant much railed against, even by
many who never tried it. Following Vandesveer, many empirics and regulars used
the remedy with success, while many others wrote essays against its being
relied upon as an antihydrophobic. Dr. White, of Fishkill, assured Rafinesque
that the plant preserved him from rabies after being bitten by a dog from whose
bite others died. Rafinesque states his full belief in the prophylactic prowess
of the plant, and adds that many laymen and physicians claim that the plant
never fails to ward off or cure the disease. The dose given was a gill of the
infusion four times a day, and the plant applied to the wound. Dr. S. W.
Williams, whose cry of "charlatan" and "quack" was always raised upon the
slightest pretext, lends his support to the probable virtue of the plant. Mr.
Youatt, a distinguished veterinary surgeon, spoke highly of its virtues in this
direction, but omitted it entirely from his treatise on canine rabies. The
natural order Labiatae yields species of many of its genera that are valued by
the aborigines of countries in which they grow as antihydrophobics. Some value
should at least be considered under these circumstances, as native medication
is always the result of long and more or less successful experiment.

stram.,
HUGHES (Pharmacodynamics): "Stramonium is, as Hahnemann points out, exquisitely
homoeopathic to hydrophobia, even more so than Belladonna." He says that in
China, the different species of Datura, among them the D. Stramonium, are in
popular use as prophylactics against hydrophobia. It is said that enough of the
plant should be taken to provoke an attack of 'rage', the patient is then safe.
"

tanac.
(Hart) Tanacetum vulg. HYDROPHOBIA - Therapeutic Indications: - M. Hayem, in
the name of M. Peyraud, of Libourne, has shown the resemblance which exists
between true rabies and what he calls tanacetic rabies, that is to say, rabies
caused by the essence of tansy. "If rabbits," says M. Peyraud, "on whom one has
previously practiced the injections of tansy for a period of six, seven or
eight days, be submitted to the action of rabic virus, it will prevent these
animals from developing rabies. All of those to which I have given this
preventive treatment, during the past eight months, have not been attacked by
rabies, while two rabbits which I had inoculated with rabic virus without
having previously submitted them to the preventive tanacetic injection, have
both of them succumbed to the true rabies, one very rapidly, the other more
slowly." This is true homoeopathy, and therefore a great improvement on
Pasteur's method, even if all that is is claimed for the latter is true, which
is very far from being the case.