New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-26
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a Now Medical Discovery.
The New York Herald of the 18th inst. contained
the following:
From tho New York Tribune, Nov Isl
We have before us Affleck's Southern Rural Al
manac for the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty. Afleck, who promises to
throw IN the shade all previous almanac mongers,
washington county, in the State of Texas-a State,
be It observed, quite conspicuous for its various
brilliant scientific discoveries among which the
one advertised in Affleck's Southern Rural Al
manac is the most conspicuous, albeit not the re-
suit of Af1eck's own genius, but that Of E. B.
Wheelock 4 Co., of New Orleans. 1t appears that
Southern negroes have fallen into most deplorable
habit. The black race are VIGOROUSLY initiative.
In their unhappy condition, compelled to ignore
higher standards of cultivation, they follow the
lowest and having heard that ii was quite fashion
able in Northern cities to eat dirt, they have taken
to that extraordinary diet with zest worthy of a
self-sacrifcing epicure, and of better cause but
with an astonshingy deleterious effect upon their
own stomachs-dirt, whether literally eaten, as
they eat it, or metaphorcaly eaten, in our fashion,
having dreadful tendency, whether physical or
mental The Texan negroes have literally, physio-
logically, dietically, taken to dirt. They scoop it
by the handful, and swallow it with prodigious
gusto. The reason Of this is not explained by the
chronological Afleck. The one prominently sug-
There are certain tribes in Africa-as we have
been told-who take to dirt when the crops are
short, and filling themselves with that substitute
escape the threatened cravings and agonies. 1t is
not for us to say that the Texan negroes have been
driven to this resort by penurious rations. We
only know that their Northern exempars have
been reduced to this dietary ignominy by plain,
papable, and unmistakable want of the boiled,
fried, stewcd and roasted. Be this as it may, to
the dirt the Texan negroes have taken--and not
negroes only, but white children. The injurious
practice Of eating dirt has become epidemic in
Texas. Parents mourn officiating children; plant
ers mourn officiating slaves; physicians mourn
officiating patients. Such is the passion for dirt
as we are informed by the philanthropic firm of
e. B. Wheelock & Co.," that ait is often prac-
tised secretly for years, while the parent, owner
the loss OF health and general debility of the sub
Ject." The parent is distracted; the owner dis.
tressed; the physician alone is jolly. The symp-
toms of this miserable monon1ania are laid down.
There is "a constant sense Of fullness." There il
great appetite, with little capacity for eating.'
The eyes are dull, the whites being of muddy
color, with no brancy in the pupil" A sad
STATE as OF thngsespeGiay when one wishes to sell
state Of things for the affectionate parent
For instance, there is Wilson H. Mitchell, a most
afectionate father, residing on Sabine river, in
the parish of Sabine, State of Louisiana" Mitchell
had son, viz: Christopher. The beloved Chris
topher, "when small child, contracted the habit
Of eating dirt and no persuasion, threats any in
ducements, would cause him to refrain" Lolli-
aturely yitiated palate Of the young Christopher,
who was clearly going to the bad with premature
precocty. His anxious parent lost all hope. Dirt
Christopher Mitchell would have, and nothing but
dirt The distressed progenitor hears of Dgaer,s
Specific Or Dirt Eaters Cure buys bottle fhere.
of-forces bottle of the same down the throat of
the young epicure and health and robustness fol-
low So, John McGee, of Anacco, Sabine parish,
La" had twelve negroes" all in the dirt eating
nd of
property fallen into the most fatal astronomical
eccentricities. He sends, in the plenitude of his
faith, for any number of bottles of the Digger's
SPECIFIC, and administers the same to these eccen
trio eaters. Verify, he has his reward. GA boy, |
who, while he continued to eat dirt would not have |
brought 500, cannot now be bought for less than |
$780," There's fatting of cattle for you Not |
the most delicious morsel of mud-not the most APP
petizing atom of clay-not gravel, which would 7
nave seduced an Apcius of an ostrich, could :" the
boy be brought to swallow after that date.
The Digger's Speci6cH did it. Price IS per
bottle % Gheap.dog cheap, at SO small price
nc benefactors. Those who at the moderate
charge of IS raise the value of goods from 500
per parcel to $500, entitled to the thanks ofan
impoverished and unfortunate community. We
ure, pill or powder whatever it may be--to the
attention of the whole Southern confederacv.
There are thousand schemes for raising the value
y niggers,'. steamboats, to Havre, disunion, the
As1ioii VI new territory, fuSltlve slave law,
'tc. But the Dggers Specific beats them all. And
Why should not Wheylock & Co. open depot in
Washington All, that is their market. There con-
Sregate n dirty convention the drt-eaters of the
Union. Can they medicine the Northern dirt-eater
INTO health? Try it, Messrs. Wheelock s. Co., and
AXE your chance Of an Escuapean apotheosis.
5ure officiating President and great will be
,,our reward. Cure officiating Secretary, and
he nation will rise up to call you blessed
letter. Afrosrrse HON. HORACE AGENT FOR TIE