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[Marcia Moore]

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[W. Gray]

$40 for the application, wow.

I recall reading an early 1870s issue of the Winfield Courier where a Cowley County man's child was bitten by a rabid dog. He heard that a man in Howard County had a mad stone and was in Howard County frantically trying to find that person. There was no follow up by the newspaper so cannot say if he found the stone or whether it worked.

A mad stone is supposed to be a good sized stony type hairball secretion coming from a deer's stomach. I think cows would sometime have them. Folklore said they were effective. Use was big in the Ozarks.

Indians were supposed to have loaned their mad stones to settlers for snake bites.

One application was to apply the mad stone to the bite wound until it was full of poison. The stone would stick to the wound filling up with poison until eventually dropping off by itself. It was then put in a glass of milk where it would bubble. The milk turned green ridding the stone of the poison. This process was repeated until the stone would no longer stick to the wound. The person was cured.

[Marcia Moore]

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[Janet Harrington]

I have never heard of such a thing.  How interesting!!!

[kdfrawg]

Get any three people together anywhere, and pretty soon one of them will have the other two believing in some pretty unlikely things...

[Marcia Moore]

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[W. Gray]

I am curious as to whether someone in the area or state has a mad stone today and is willing to rent it out.

[Roma Jean Turner]

I've never heard of this, how fascinating.  Since the madstone came from the gut of a certain type of animal, my guess would be that perhaps it contained certain enzymes that would be activated when it came in contact with the wound.  Those
particular enzymes (or whatever) had a specific effect on that virus.  Next time I go through microfilms of old papers I'll be watching for info on this.

[Marcia Moore]

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[kfclark]

This is fascinating. 
I looked up madstones on the internet and found this article. http://www.prairiepublic.org/programs/plainsfolk/transcripts/TheMadstoneTreatment.jsp

Harry Potter fans might remember that a Bezoar (a stone from a Goat's stomach) was a curative for many poisons. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezoar