Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-06-10

SICKNESS IN THE SpRINd-How AVolD.
ED.--Tho reason why thore is always suoh a
demand for physio in the spring, Is because
when the warm weather comes people keep
on eating too much food, moro than can be
managed by tho stomach excepting during
cold weather. The result is, the stomach is
ovcrtaxed, the liver and bowels obstructed
and the blood detcrioratcs.
Tho truo method to be observed in such
cases is, on the approach Of spring, to cat less
food, and that of u mildcr nature. The brown
bread should take the place of the white, if
white has been used in tho winter Moro
fruit should be taken. Avoid stale vegetables.
If you have not good potatoes, eat nope, f, +
poor potatoes arc very unwholcsomo. IF you
have good potatoes, bake or boil Them eat
with fresh cream instead of gravy or butter
Use freely of canned fruit, or we'll kept ap.
pies, .. least ono meal each day. Avoid fat
meat, pastry, cakes, rich puddings and live
simply and naturally
Every family should put by for spring use
sufficient good fruit to have an abundance of
it at the commencement of warm weather
and as soon as Strawberries ripcn they should
be used freely. Strawberries for those who
have attacks of the disorders Incident to
spring, arc one Of tho best remedies that can
be used. We pity the family that does not
have them in abundance. Nature seems to
have made them OH purpose to meet demand
of the system in early summer, and wo have
known many cases of invalids being greatly
improved by their USE Wilson, the ornithof.
ogist, was once ordered by an Indian doctor
to live ON Strawberries in order to cure an OBJ.
stipatc dysentcry, aud to his surprise ho was
cured in in less than week. Tho tomato,
which can be canned in almost unlimited
quantities so us to be fresh and good in the
spring as in autumn, should also be nse.l
freely; not as an occasional luxury, but as a
regular article Of dict They arc especially
wholesome at this season Of the year.
a STRANGE DISEAsE.-Last Saturday
morning Charles Martin, young engtaver,
nineteen years ofagc, who resides at the house
of DIR. B. 9. Perry, No 40 Bond street, New
York, was attacked by remarkable paroxysm,
which, at first, was supposed to be hydropho-
bia. lie barkcd like dog, licked his father,
snapped at Dr. Perry, as if Ire wanted to bite
him, foamcd at the mouth, and was with diff
'culty prevented from injuring himself aud
others by six mcn-neigh ghbors who were call
cd in-whooc united strength scarcely suiliccd
to restrain him. These violent spasms recur-
rcd at intervals during the rest of the dav,
and it was late at night before he was quiet.
cd and fell asleep. The next day he was al.
most entirely rational, though exhausted. On
Monday the paroxysm did not return, and
Drs. IL. Nj. Jcrnegan and IT, f. Allen, who
have been attending him, and who say that the
disease is not hydrorhobia, but seem some.
what mystilicd as to its precise nature, were
of the opinion that he will ultimately recover
1t is understood that the patient when only
five years old-fourtccn years ago was bitten
by a dog. During his parosysm Ire called for
water, and drank it copiously, which is hard
ly a symptom of hydrophobia. lie is said to
be of strictly temperate habits.