2017 South Market Street Renovation Project.(1845-1924) Veteran, JP, Alderman and Lumber Dealer For instance, Maynard could also be Manard, Menard, Maynerd or Mainard.Īlso, try leaving trailing letters off of names that have variations and keep the letters that tend to stay the same. Consider all possible spellings of a last name. Names were often spelled differently back in time due to illiteracy and transcription errors. To improve search results when more than two words are used in the search box, enclosing them in quotes will return only the exact phrase. (Mad Stone research written by Dennis Muncrief, March 25, 2002) When the stone fails to stick to the wound, the rabies poison is all gone and the patient will not get rabies. If it sticks, there is still rabies in the wound. When the stone falls off the wound, it is boiled again in milk to remove the poison from the stone. The Mad Stone will stick to the wound if there is rabies infection in the wound. If it is no longer bleeding it must be scraped until it is bleeding. That is how you can tell when all the rabies is out of the stone.Īfter boiling the stone in milk, it is applied directly to the wound. The stone must be boiled in the milk until the milk turns green. The sweet milk neutralizes the poison from the bite.
When the person with the bite arrives at the place where the Mad Stone is kept, the stone is boiled in sweet milk. The procedure for curing the infected patient is as follows. The use of the Mad Stone is quite strict. Anyone who owns a Mad Stone can use the stone as long as they follow a strict set of procedures. The stone was usually passed down from father to son. There can never be a charge for the use of the Mad Stone. The Mad Stone must never be brought to the patient. The patient must go to the person with the Mad Stone. Now, there is a very strict set of rules associated with the use and care of a Mad Stone. It not only cures the rabies, it also cures rattlesnake and spider bites. The very best Mad Stone comes from an albino or “witch deer” that is pure white with pink eyes.
This stone works a lot better than a stone from a brown deer. A better grade of Mad Stone comes from a white or spotted deer. A stone from a brown deer will work in a bind if another cannot be found. The Mad Stone is an object that has several grades of curative power. The purpose of the Mad Stone was to cure rabies, hence the name. They have a brownish-green color with a highly polished surface.
They have been described as round or oval in shape with a porous surface texture measuring about 3 to 4 inches in size and very light weight. The Mad Stone is a stony concretion (as a hair ball) taken from the stomach of a deer. The Mad Stone was a widely practiced procedure traced back to at least the 1700’s in America and Europe. A “mad stone” was applied Thursday afternoon and is said to have “stuck.” Louis or Chicago to undergo the Pasteur treatment. Smoot’s only brother will be hastened to St. The dog was captured and slain and has been pronounced a true mad dog. After reading the following article that appeared in the Egyptian Press on January 20, 1913, about the use of a “mad stone” to diagnose and cure rabies, my curiosity got the best of me and I had to figure out what it was, so here is what I found out.į.
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