The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-02-18
CURING A COLD.

I AtO'N AOHH0ottOn Utah Tile uIf11e
| right OF kings. Stuff a cold and starve
1ever-as II cold was not likewise fever.
But absurd as the first part of this saying
ls. 1t has governed the multitude for ages.
When they feel the slightest advances Of
cold, they. lncontinently begin to stuff.
The cold, thus fed and encouraged, ac-
qnires strength and decision not its own,
pushes on with vigor, blockades the nose,
the throat, the lungs, and nearly cuts off
all communication with the vital air. But
the more the patient is stuffed with the
cold. the more he stuffs himself with food.
One would suppose they were stufing on a
wager-the cold stuffs up the breathing
apparatus, the patient stuffs the alimentary
canal. Only imagine for a moment what q
war of stufing But it SO happens, that the
stufting of the stomach only increases the
stuffing of the lungs, until the stuffed pa
tient, wheeling and barking, can just speak
in hoarse whisper, and deems il matter
of prudence TO call a physician.
The doctor comes. "How do you do,
Mr.. Pheezer %
atient. [Coughingl ugh ugh. ugh |!
4ost know Doc-ugh! ugh ugh -
Doctor. Eve got terrible-ugh! ugh |!
ugh IA terrible cold.
Enter ,cite.l Don't try to talk, Mr.. Phee-
ger, you're so stopped up. III tell you how
It's. Doctor, Mr.. Pheezer put ON damp
shirt t'other day, and took cold, and though
I've done my best to cure him, he's grown
worse and worse, till now, poor man, he can
hardly speak above his breath.
Doctor What have you done for him?
hrs. Pheezer. Why, besides giving him
a sight of yarb drink, and bathing his feet
in warm water, | made him eat as much
good vctuals as he could any ways stuff
down. | han't starved him, depend upon it.
Doctor. I've had a good dozen of turkeys
cooked, since he was unwel, poor man
which is only a week come Tomorrow
besides three spare rims and goose-and
as sure as I'm living sinner, Doctor. he's
eat the bigger part on 'em.
Doctor And he's yet alive!
.nrs. Pheezer. Yes-l desire to he thank
! ful, he is; though | think he wouldn't ha'
lived but very leetIe while, if hadn't ha'
done what | have; don't you, Doctor?
Doctor. No, good woman, | think if ron
had starred instead of stuffed his cold, he
would have been well before now.
.Nrs. Pheezcr. Lord ha' MASSEY on We
Doctor! S;arve cold! why never heerd
of sirha thing in all my horn days.
( Daetor May be not, Mrs. Pheezer, but
| assure you,it is the right way to MANAGE
= cold, if you mean to get lid of it. For
instance, let the patient take little tea
coffee, or glass Of water, with crack,
er, three times a day-or a little wate,
cruel, IT more convenient or agreeable Ia
the TASTE BY this management cold NAV
ordinarily be cured in two or three davs.
while l'y the stuffing process it would prob
ably be prolonged as many months, unless
death should intervene and put an end 10
the cold and the patient together.
! Mrs. Phce2er. Why, Doctor, Pm. aston
ished at ye. used ter think you knowcd
something; but now I'm convinced all your
skill ant worth the snap O. my thumb You
needn't come any more, Doctor Erit Phu-
sician. Starve cold! Well. Of all the
strange toctorine | ever heard Of, this is the
cap chief Among all my sins, Lord help
me, bav'nt got this TO answer for.
So Mrs. Pheezer pursued her stuffinr
Regimen, her husbands cold became an
! inflammation of the lungs, and in week
after, Mrs. Pheezer followed him to the
i grave, consoling herself in the midst ef her
affections, that she had not been guilty Of
the sin Of starving his cold.
Berkshire .qmericun.
/ SUPERSTITION. Another instance OF the
gross ignorance and superstition which are
SO prevalent among some of the French
provinces, occurred short time ago at
Bueigny. Three Young girls os that place
/ having been suddenly attacked, on the
same day, with commissions, it was instantly
/ rnmored that they had been bewitched. In
consequence Of this rumor, nearly 400 per-
sons went in procession to the house in
habited by these females, where some of
! the leaders performed variety of exor-
csms. A woman who had been with them
on the preceding evening, became suspect
ed of having bewitched them, ard fled for
safety to the house of the mayor, who pro-
tected her from violence. The mob, how
ever, determined to release the females
4 from the charm under which they were sup
! posed to be suffering, were continuing their
exo.csms, when an immense toad, which
was crossing pathway near the house, was
perceived by the exorcisors, who imme-
diately concluded that the evil spirit which
had bewtched the young females had TAX
en- the form of this animal, and condemned
it to death. II was roasted alive in the
presence Of the females, under the received
1 impression in that part of the country, that
| in proportion as the wizard Of witch suffers,
| the person bewitched derives relief In
this case, however. the commissions were
greater after the execution of the toad than
they were previously, and the crowd quilted
1.-The spot to hold fresh deliberations. The
Procureur du Roi being informed of this
affair, sent physician TO examine the fe.
males, and received the report they were
merely suffering under nervous affection
/ which would very shortly yield TO proper
remedies. French paper.
A kitten, which had lost its mother, re-
Gently took up its residence in pigstye al
Milnrodgie, the occupant of which nurs
ed tho nav cnrnen with the nrentesk cnrf