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Symptoms begin appearing within 1-4 months after the bite, but sometimes longer. They include numbness, soreness, and tingling where the bite occurred.
These sensations spread, and it becomes difficult to swallow, breathe, and talk.
Then more extensive muscle spasms begin, and the victim gradually becomes maniacal. the final stages are depression, exhaustion and sometimes paralysis, coma, and death.
If the symptoms of rabies have already begun to appear, the person will probably die.
See end of this article for symptoms in a rabid dog. Rabies can also be transmitted by the bite of infected bats, foxes, skunks, and other animals.
- A backwoodsy nature doctor, who has treated all kinds of things with remarkable success, says to do this: Wash the wound with water right away and then mix with half and half vinegar and warm water, and wash the wounds with it. when dry, apply 1-2 drops of muriatic acid (hydrochloric acid) to each wound. Do this even if, what appears to be, a rabid dog only licks a previous wound on you.
- for extra precaution, you may apply a tourniquet and a rubber vacuum cup as for a snake bite (which see for further details). if acid is not available, you may burn the wound with a magnifying glass in the sunlight. Or use a red-hot iron. then treat as for a regular burn until it is healed. this treatment usually prevents further worry. so says this backwoodsman.
- Jethro Kloss has a lengthy article on this in his book, Back to Eden (pp. 490-495) (see order sheet). He also says to put hydrochloric acid on the wound, to neutralize the rabies poison in the saliva. then, after discussing a number of herbal remedies to also use, he quotes a scientific paper by an M. Buisson, read to the French Academy of Arts and Sciences. M. Buisson had accidentally contracted rabies from a women suffering with it. By the time he discovered he had it, the disease was advanced and he knew he was soon to die. Kloss quotes a London newspaper which reported on the scientific paper:
“Concluding from these various symptoms that he was suffering with hydrophobia, he [Buisson] resolved to make an end of himself by suffocating himself in a vapor [steam] bath. with this view, he raised the heat very, very, hot, but was delighted, no less than surprised, to find that all his pains disappeared. He went out of the bath completely cured, ate a hearty dinner, and drank more freely than was usual with him. He adds that he has treated more than fourscore persons who have been bitten by mad dogs in a similar manner, and they all recovered, with the exception of a child seven years old, who died in a vapour bath he was administering.”-Kloss, Back to Eden, p. 493.
- Water therapists normally work with a steam bath temperature of 115o-120o F. (See our Water Therapy Manual (see order sheet) for detailed information on steam baths, pp. 131-138.) those with diabetes, valvular heart disease, extreme arteriosclerosis, or emaciation should not use a steam bath.
Kloss also quotes a German newspaper which discussed an incident which happened in Saxony:
- “A Saxon forester named Gastell, at the age of 82, unwilling to take to the grave with him a secret of so much importance, has made public in the Leipsic Journal the method which he used for fifty years, and he affirms he has rescued many human beings and cattle from the fearful death of hydrophobia. Wash the wound immediately with warm water and vinegar; let it dry, and then pour upon the wound a few drops of hydrochloric acid, and that will neutralize and destroy the poison of the saliva.”-Op. cit., p. 494.
We included the above as a matter of historical interest. Now we return to modern physiologic and medical theory on rabies:
- nearly all human rabies cases result from dog bites. the animal can transmit disease before it shows symptoms of rabies; but, except in rare instances, the symptoms will appear within 10 days if it is rabid. the disease is always fatal, unless it is halted by a series of Pasteur treatments, which are started before symptoms first appear.
- if at all possible, it is crucial to confine the animal which inflicted the bite so it can be observed. the course of the disease runs so fast that the animal should show symptoms of rabies before they begin to appear in the person. if the animal is rabid, it will show clear signs within 2 weeks, then the person bitten should begin the Pasteur series of rabies shots (unless circumstances are clear that the animal was not rabid).
- if the animal got away and cannot be found, then the person should immediately take the rabies vaccine series.
- if the series has already been started, and the animal is then found not to have rabies, the Pasteur treatments can be stopped.
- About 10%-12% of persons bitten by a known rabid animal, and not treated, will contract rabies and die. if the Pasteur series is started within 2 weeks or less after the bite, about one-third of 1% of those bitten will die.
- it is not widely known that rabies is sometimes transmitted accidentally in hospitals. Rabies in humans is sometimes misdiagnosed as a stroke. After death, some of that rabid tissue may be transplanted to another person.
- if your child’s pet hamster bites him, do not think the child needs to start rabies shots. Know that, if you have had that hamster for 3 weeks or more and it shows no symptoms of rabies, the hamster does not have rabies.
- Rabies shots last 10 days and are so difficult to take that the person often goes to the hospital for respiratory support while they are in progress.
SYMPTOMS IN THE DOG-Initially, there is a marked change in its disposition. He will become very friendly or very snappy; the bark becomes hoarse.
Paralysis may soon develop-first the lower jaw, then the hind legs, and gradually the rest of the body.
But, instead, the dog wants to run away. it may run for miles, snapping at any creature which comes near it.
Finally, it becomes exhausted and paralysis sets in.
If a dog shows signs of rabies, it must be chained (not roped), and observed for 2 weeks.
-Also see “Dog or Animal Bite” and “Antispasmodic Tincture.”
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