Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-23
Curing n Cold.

higher and nobler thing to write for thelI
instruction, their profit, their actual and
tangible benefit. The latter is the sole object
of this article. If it prove the means OF re-
storing to health one solitary sufferer
among my race, of lighting up orce more
the fire of hope and Joy in his faded eyes, OF
bringing back to his dead heart again the
quick, generous impulses of other days, !
shall be amply rewarded for my labor; my
soul will be permeated with the sacred de-
light Christian feels when he has done
good, unselfish deed. -.
Having led pure and blameless life, l
am justified in believing that no man who
knows me will reject the suggestions L am
about to make, cut of fear that l am try
ing to deceive him Let thepublic do itself
the honor to read my experience In doctor
ing cold, as herein set forth, and then fol-
low in my footsteps.
When the White House was burned in
Virginia, lost my home, my happiness, my
constitution and my trunk. The loss ofthe
two first named articles was matter of
great consequence, since home without a
mother or sister, or distant young female
relative in it, to remind you, by putting
your soiled linen out of sight, and taking
your boots down off the mantle-piece, that
there are those who think about you and
care for you, is easily obtained. And l
cared nothing tor the loss ofmy happiness,
because, not being poet it could not be
possible that melancholy would abide with
me long. --,T- s.Ht ~ !szs -ffi trer.5'-
But to lose good constitution and bet
ter trunk were serious misfortunes.
On the day of the fire, my constitution
succumbed to severe cold caused by undue
exertion in getting ready to do something.
l suffered to no purpose, too, because the
plan was figuring at for the extinguishing
of the fire was so elaborate, that |, never
got it completed until the middle of the
week. -..: .u...-.s... .f.:f. ..-y
:. The first time began6o sneeze, friend
told me to go and battle my feet in hot water
and go to bed. l did so. Shortly after
ward, another friend advised me to get up
and take cold shower bath. did that
also. Within the hour another friend as
sured me that it was policy to iced cold
and starve fever had both. So
thought it best to fill myself up for cold,
and then keep dark and let the fever starve
awhile.
In a case of this kind, I seldom do things
by halves ate petty heartily conferred
my custom upon stranger who had just
opened his restaurant that morning; he
waited near me in respectful silence until l
had finished feeding my cold, when he in
luired if the people about Virginia were
much afflicted with colds? / told him |
thought they were. He then went out, and
5ook in his sign l started down toward
,he office, and on the way encountered an
other bosom friend, who told me that a
quart of salt water, taken warm, would
come as near curing cold as anything in
he world. hardly thought had room
5or it, but / tried it anyhow. The result
was surprising. believe l threw up my
soul.
Now, as am giving my experience only
or the benefit of those who are troubled
With the distemper l am writing about,
eel that they will see the propriety of my
them against following such
portions of it as proved inefficient with me,
Ind acting upon this conviction, l warn
hem against warm salt water. 1t may be
/ good enough remedy, but think it is too
severe If had another cold in the head,
md there were no course left me but to take
either an earthquake or quart Of warm
alt water, would take my chances on the
earthquake.
After the storm which had been raging
n my stomach had subsidized, and no more
rood Samaritans happening along, l went
IN borrowing handkerchiefs again and
blowing them to atoms, as had been my
ustom in the early stages of my cold, I'M
il came across lady who had just arriv-
d from over the plains, and who said she
lad lived in part of the country where
loctOrs were scarce, and had from necessity
cquired considerable skill in the treatment
# simple family complaints I knew she
must have had much experience, for sheap
,eared to be d hundred and fifty years old.
She mixed decoction composed of mo-
asses, aqua FORTS, turpentine and various
ther drugs, and instructed me to take
vine-glass full of it every fifteen minutes.
took but one dose; that was enough;
robbed me of all moral principle, and
woke every unworthy impulse of my
lature. Under its malign influence my
rain conceived miracles of meanness, but
ny hands were too feeble to execute them
t that time, had it not been that my
trength had surrendered to a succession of
ssaults from infallible remedies for my
old, am satisfied that I would have tried
D rob the graveyard. a5 ~ "4'a
Like most other people often feel mean,
nd act accordingly; but, until took that
ledicine, | had never revealed in such
supernatural depravity and felt proud oft.
It the end of two days Twas ready to go to
octoring again. took few more unfail-
1g remedies, and finally drove my cold
rom my head to my lungs. ta 9"
got to coughing necessarily, and my
dice fell below zero; conversed in a
numbering bass, two octaves below my ma
lral tone; could only compass my regu-
IF nightly repose by coughing myself
own to a state of utter exhaustion, and |
1en the moment 1 began to talk in my
eep, my discordant voice woke me up |
gain.
My case grew. more and more serious |
very day. Plain gin was recommended !; |
took it. Then gin and molasses took |
lat ALSO Then gin and onions; added
he onions, and took all three I detected |
o particular result, however, except that |
had acquired breath like buzzard's.
/ found had to travel for my health. l |
ent to Lake Bigler with my reportorial
)mrade, Wilson. 1t is gratifying to me to
ELECT that we travelled in considerable
yle; we went in the Pioneer coach, and
y friend took all his baggage with him,
of two excellent silk handker-
liefs, and daguerreotype of his grand
other. We sailed and hunted and fished /
Id danced all day, and doctored my
ugh all night. By managing in this way,
made out to improve every hour in the
Bntmy disease continued to
'ow worse va , 4a,f7, s;e t.e t
A sheet bath was recommended. had
ever refused a remedy yet, and it seemed
,or policy to commence then; therefore,
determined to take sheet bath, nOtwith-
anding / had no idea what sort of an ar
ngement it was 80
1t was administered at midnight, and the