Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-11-24
Curing of Cold.

Curing of Cold.
The weather's sudden changes this fall
have produced their usual results, in the
shape Of coughs, colds, influenza, ard cat
Arrh, and while labOring under the former,
| victim this writes:
The first time began to sneeze, friend
told me to 90 and batne my feet 10 lot wa
ter and gn to bed.
Shortly after another friend advised me
to get up and take a cold shower bath.
did SO.
Within an hour. another friend assured
NE that it was policy to feed a cold and
and s'arve fever"
l had tried both.
/ | thought il best to Gil m yself 10 for the
cold. and then keep dark and let the fever
starve av bile.
10 case Of this kind seldomado things
by halves; ate pretty heartily l coufer-
red my custom upon a stranger who had
just opened his restaurant that morning :
be waited near me until had finished
feeding my cold. when be inquired if the
people about Boston were much aft ,cteG
with colds.
! told him thought they were.
He then went out and took in bis sign.
started down toward the Office, and on
the way met another bosom friend, who
told me that quart Of salt water taken
warm, would c. me as near curing a cold
a. anyth ng be knew in the world.
hardly thought had room for it, but
tried it
The result was surprising; / must have
Vomited t5ree-quarteTs OF an hour; | be.
lieve threw up my immortal soul.
But | grew worse.
got to coughing necessarily, and nv
voice fell below zero; | conversed in a
laundering bass two Octaves below nv nat.
ural tone; | only conpassed my regular
nightly rei ose by coughing myself down
to a state OF utter exhaustion, and then the
momeut began to talk in my sleep, nv
discordant voice reused me to Wakefulaess
again.
My case grew more and moro serious
every day.
Plum gin was recommended.
took il. ..
Then ginand molasses.
tovk that also.
Then gin and onions.
l added the onions aud took all three.
l detected no particular result, however,
except that had acquired breath like a
buzzard's. ~ -.
found out then that had to travel for
my health.
went to Lake B with MP reporto-
rial friend, Adair Wilson.
It's crafty ing to me to reflect that we
nave travelled IN considerable style we
went - The Pioneer line. aud my friend
took ill his baggage with him consisting
of two excellent silk andkerchiefs and a
daguerrotype of his grandmother.
hac my regular gin and onions along.
and We had very healthy time CT it FIR q
while.
We sailed and hunted and fshed and
danced ell day, and dOctOred my cough oil
night.
By managing in this way. made out to
improve every hour in the twenty .four.
A ehettSbsth VS. re recommended.
had never refused remedy vet. and
it seemed poor policy to commence then +;
therefore determined to take sbeet-bath
notwithstanding had no idea what SORT of
arrangement il was.
twas administered at midnight, and the
weather was very frosty. My breast and
back were barred. and q sheet There ap-
peared to be thousand yards oil it)soaked
in icewater. was wound around me until |
:esembled a swsb from a Culumbaid.
1T was a cruel expedient
When the chilly rag touches ones warm
flesh, it makes him start with sudden vjo-
lence and gasp for breath just as men do
in the death agony. 1t fruZe the marrow
in my bones and stopped the beating Of NJ
heart.
thought my time bad come.
Young Wilson said the circumAtance
reminded him Of an anecdote of a negro
who was being baptised. and who siipped
from the persons grasp and came near
being drowned; be f1undered around.
though. and finally rose up out of the water
considerably strangled and fnricusly angry
and started a shore at oncP, spouting water
like a whale, and remarked with great
asperity that:
"One o. desc days. some gsm'man's
digger gwyne to get killed Wid jes' SIGH
dam foulishness M dis ?'
Then young WIl;on laughed at his silly
poiDtless anecdote, as if he thought be had
done something very sm<rt.
But to resume:
A ter sGjrurning q week at the lake. I
went 10 the springs, and besides the steam
baths, took a lot Of the viIsst medicines
that ever were connected They would have
cured me, but bad to go to B ston, where
notwithstanding the varity Of new remedies
/ absorbed every day, l managed to aggra-
vate my disease by Carelessuess and undue
exposure.
l finally concluded to visit San Francisco,
and the fret day a ter my arrival a lady
told me to drink quart of whisksy every
day, and a friend OF the Occidental recon-
mended precisely the same course.
Each advised the to take q quart-which
makes half gallon. I calculate to do it,
or perish in the attempt.
Now, with kindest motives in the world,
offer for the consideration of consu On ptIye
patieOts the Var!egated course of treatment
| have letely gone through Let them try
tiff it don't cure them, it can't more than
kill them. ....
At last accounts. his cold was getting no
better very fast.