Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1853-01-01
THE SUGAR HOUSE CURE OF coNsuNp.
TIOS.


The heallhiness Of sugar house during
the rolling season (remaiks the editor of The
Cotton Plan,,) il is well known in all cane
growing counties. 1t is common thing
for planters TO take up their bed and board
al the commencement and not leave the SUI
gar house until the season is over. We
have taken sundry good dinners while the
cauldrons of syrup were bubbling, and serd-
ing up clouds of steam around US, the steam
engine and pouderous cane crushing mill
furnishing the music of our repast During
the sugar making, notwithstanding the hard
labor Of eighteen hours a day, the people
are almost universally healthy. This fact
has become so noted, that the attention Of
physicians has been drawn towards j, as a
means of cure for several diseases.
DR.. Cartwright, a physician Of note in
New Orleans, says there is nothing like the
sugar house cure for bronchial, dyspeptic
and consumptive complaints. He states
that a residence in sugar house, during the
rolling seasons far surpases any other known
Of restoring flesh, strength and healh-lost
by chronic ailments Of the chest, throat and
s'omach. The rolling season is the harvest,
when the canes are cut, the juice expressed
and converted into Sugar. In Louisiana ii
commences about the middle of October,
and generally end al Christmas, bat it is
sometimes protracted into January. DR.. c.
says
Last December having severe and dis
tressing cough which for some weeks had
resisted the usual remedies, | went into a
sugar house, drank glass OF hot cane lnice
and stood over The kettles, called clarihers,
for some hours, inhaling the vIgor arising
lherefrom. The vapor was most agreeable
and soothing 10 the lungs. The fragrant,
saccharine aura seemed 10 penetrate into
the inmost recesses OF the obstrucled lobules.
opening lis way into the intercelular passa-
ges and air cells, without exciting cough,
but removing the distinctions, the cause of
the cough. There stood over the CHARTERS
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vapor Of an agreeable temperature and an
aromatic oder, after which retired TO res,
and had refreshing sleep. In the morning
the inhalation of the vapor was again re-
\ sumed, when I returned home through g
raw, cold windy atmosphere, some Ter
miles 10 the city, almost well, without ex
periencing any inconvenience from the ex
posure TO the cold-ihe cough and disasreea
BILE sensation of childncss, smo,herng, anc
febrile irritation having disappeared almos
entirely. tenuous vapor, OF an agreeable
aromatic odor, hovers constantly over The
heated juice Of the clariiers 1t is demul
cent, saccharine, aud grateful 10 the respira
tory organs, causing no oppression or feelin!
Of constitution as other vapors and smoke
so often do. but the lungs seem 10 expanC
and drink it in with avdiry, as the roots o
plants require the moisture Of the earth i'm
pregnant with aZotized bodies after a show
er. What humus is TO vegetable substance
the elements contained in this vapor wouI
seem to be TO man.
The hea,hlulness OF sugar making ha
been ascribed TO the use Of sugar at tn
time, as food bu, from Dr.. Cartwright
statement it would appear that nhaling th
steam has a soothing and beneficial e1et
upon the lungs Of those suffering from pu
monary diseases.