When the Disease Beats the Cure, Part II

Medical history's dustbin is full of well-meaning treatments that were basically guaranteed to increase a patient's misery. Several months back, for example, we wrote about the use of Torpillage to treat victims of shell shock. Now, via the journals of the great Irish explorer John Palliser, comes news of a 19th-century Native American rabies remedy that strikes us as exceedingly tough to take:

I saw great numbers of the case wolf (mischechogonis or togonie) prowling about. This is the wolf...