Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-05-24
ing remedies, and finally drove my cold

| ing remedies, and finally drove my cold
from my head to my lungs.
| / got to coughing incessantly, and my
voice fell below zero; / conversed in a
laundering bass, two octaves below my ma
tural tone; could only compass my regu-
lar nightly repose by coughing myself
down to a state of utter exhaustion, and
then the moment | began to talk in my
sleep, my discordant voice woke me up
again.
My case grew more and more serious
every day. Plain gin was recommended /;
took it. Then gin and r1oasses; 1 took
that also. Then gin and onions; added
| the onions, and took all three. / detected
| no particular result, however, except that
had acquired breath like buzzard's.
found had to travel for my health.
went to Lake Bigler with my reportorial
comrade, Wilson. 1t is gratifying to me to
reflect that we travelled in considerable
style; we went in the Pioneer coach. and
my friend took all his baggage with him,
consisting of two excellent silk handker-
chiefs, and daguerreoty pc of his grand
mother. We sailed and hunted and fished
and danced all day, and l dOctored my
cough all night. BY managing in this way,
i made out 10 improve every hour in the
twenty four Bnt my disease continued to
grow worse.
A sheet bath was recommended. had
never refused j remedy yet, and it seemed
poor policy to commence then; therefore,
l determined to take sheet BATH notwith-
standing had no idea what sort of an ar
rangement it was.
1t was administered at midnight, and the
weather was very frosty My breast and
back were barred, and sheet (there APP
peared to be a thousand yards OF IT'D soaked
in ice water was wound round me until |
resembled a swab for Columbiad.
1t is cruel expedicnt. When the chilly
rag touches ones warm flesh, it makes him
start with sudden violence and gasp for
breath just as men do in the death agony.
1t froze the marrow in my bones and
stopped the beating of my heart. thought
my time had come
Young Wilson said the circumstance re-
minded him of an anecdOte about a negro
who was being baptised, and who slipped
from the parsons grasp, and came near be-
ing drowned He floundered around,
though, and finally rose up out of the
water considerably strangled and furiously
angry, and started ashore at once, spouting
water like whale, and remarking, with
great asperity, that Zone o. these days
some gen'lman's Niger gwyne to git killed
wild jes such dam foOlishness as dis :"
Never take sheet 5ath-never. Next
to meeting lady acquaintance, who, for
reasons best known to herself, don't see you
when she looks at you, and don't know you
when she does see you, it Is the most un-
comfortable thing in the world.
But, as l was saying, when the sheet
bath failed to cure my cough, a lady friend
recommended the application of mustard
plaster to my breast. Ibe.ieve that would
have cured me effectually, if it had not
been for young Wilson. When | went to
bed, l put my mustard plaster-which was
very gorgeous one, eighteen inches
square-where l could reach it when ]
was ready for it. But young Wilson go:
hungry in the night, and ate it up. never
saw anybody have such an appetite am
confident that lunatic would have eaten me
up if had been healthy.
After sojourninga week at Lake Bigler,
went to Steamboat Springs, and beside
the steam baths, took lot of the vilest
medicines that were ever concocted. They
would have cured me, but i had to go back
to Virginia, where, notwithstanding the
variety of new remedies | absorbed every
day, managed to aggravate my disease by
and undue exposure.
finally concluded to visit San Francis
co, and the first day got there lady at
the Lick House told me TO Crink quart of
whisky every twenty-four hours, and
friend at the Occidental recommended pre-
cisely the same course Each advised me
TO take quart; that made half gallon.
did it, and still live.
Now, with the kindcst motives in the
world, / offer for the consideration of con-
sumptive patients the variegated course of
treatment have lately gone through. Let
them try it; if it don't cure them, it can't
more than kill them