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Was it Rabies?
My grandfather on my mother's side came to the U.S. when he was about 12 years old. His adoptive (that's a whole 'nuther story in itself) Hungarian parents had immigrated to the U.S. about three years before, and wanted to be 'established' before 'bringing him over.'
Grandpa spent those three years on a relative's large farm, a commercial milking sheep farm in Hungary. One day a strange dog acting confused and very aggressive wandered into the farmyard and bit two of the herding dogs before one of the men killed the 'strange dog' with a hoe; the man was also bitten.
The boss had a couple of the boys (one of which was Grandpa) climb way to the top of the rafters of the main barn and bring down three of several insect hives that were hung up there the summer before. A tea or thin gruel was steeped from these hives and the bitten man and two herding dogs made to drink this tea; none of them got 'sick' and were 'just fine'.
Because Grandpa had always lived in a "city", he did not know what kind of insect hives these were and being a boy (8/9 years old at the time) did not ask. But he remembers having to collect them in the late summer/early fall and having to clime into the rafters of the barn to hang them so that they would 'dry'.
He often wondered/suspected that this was an 'old world/time tested' preventative for what we know today as rabies. :?: :idea:
Judy
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