The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-10-14
s5CundMr0MOO."
An Adventurous New YOrker.in the Wilds
OF Ecuador.

An Adventurous New Yorker In the Wud
Of Ecuador.
from the New York Commercial Advertises.l
The great stir made last Winter about tn
reported discovery of new cure for cance
will be remembered. The story ran t. til
effect that plant indigenous to the Repub
lie of Ecuador. known by the name o
''Cundurango," had been suddenly discov
cred to be sovereign remedy for one of thu
terrible ills which flesh 10 heir to; ana ira
diti0n was set afloat that an EQuadoriau
woman with sick husband had attempted
10 poison HIM with a decoction of this plant
The sick man Immediately got well, to his
own surprise and apparently to the disgust
of the attached" wife. The buzz over this
business gave rise to curious diplomatic
correspondence; the Equadorian Minister,
NJ. Flores. took . hand;" Vice President
! Colf"x's mother swallowed cundurang0 ex.
tract, and felt better; and then the medical
profession fell to talking of the new cure,
and their journals kept up q controversy
about it ever since the issue of the Medical
Record. for September Is, devoting column
to fierce dcnunciati0n of the whole busl.
ness.
The Record says it is unfortunate that
four out of six patients treated with the
new remedy have dicd-but such luck will
happen. Nevertheless, the true spirit Of
American enterprise has been developed by
the opposition Of 1.-The faculty." and one OF
the firm believers in Cundurango has re.
Gently undergone perils by land and sea in
an attempt to procure the healing balm.
Being All American, and u ''pushihg" one ut
that, he succeeded, 0f course--the irrepres.
sible Yankee always does succeed when he
makes up his mind to do a thing. There.
fore. We give notice to the doctors that the
new remedy is ready to do battle with them
-physic against physic, dose against dose.
And then think of the paticsts who will
have to suffer. As one of the floating bits
Of the news Of the day, it is Interesting 10
know that the doctor who went exploring
into Ecuador found the plant in great abun.
dance Oh the Peruvian frontie., not far
from the city of Lola.
II is not u tree, nor yet shrub. but o
climbing vine, and unlike the grapc. The
bark Is the remedial portion. The natives
thought that it was roisonous-but after the
failure of several attempts 10 murder dog
with it, in their presence, they altered their
opinion and clsmbered for doses of 1.-THE
misfortune of those gentle savages bcin,
that they are generally sufferers from dis.
reputable disorders. The spectacle of the
Yankee doctor setting up an impromp,u
dispcnsary among the natives is q subject
Tor m srtisi-tl,ey CANA i" -@.-'"uis III; and
then departed better. COndurango was
evidently what the lamented Artcmus would
have called ''swect boon" to that afflicted
and exceedingly immoral community, and
the Yankee Doctor was rained upon by tears
of gratitude But to get there, and to get
back, he had twenty. three consecutive days
of mule hack riding, mile above the sea,
up and down mountain ranges, sleeping un.
der the sky, and half starved by Ecuadorian
fare. which is perhaps triile more abomi.
nable than any other civilized man adopts.
And this is the story of Cundurango up to
date. 1t is an excitant. ut lcast-eise the
medical faculty would not have begun SO
bitter warfare against it.