The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-12-14
A SURE CURE FOR BURNS.
From the Rural New Yorker.


While the scientific men Of the day are
Investigating the mysterious virtues OF
Cundarango," there. is humble plant
growing in nearly every part of our land
on our Sow lands, or marshy grounds
whose virtues need only to be testa9 to be;
found as efficacioss in saving suffering
and death, as tb0t wonderful plant
While there are but teeo who are saffering
| rom cancer, there IS not family In our
| land but have felt the need of an effica
cious remedy for the suffering produced
by even slight burn and it is fact
we'll known 70 medical men that snauy
valuable lives are lost, not SO much from
the extent of the burn as from the shock
and exhaustion to the nervous system
from the intense suffering that the tor
turing nature of burn causes before it is
relieved.
The wonderful plant is the homely
Cat tail. Every school boy knows it ;
| for does he not make his arrows of it,
long, slender stem? To botanists it is
known as belonging to the class of az.
Jumsaee0us eddOgens, or flowers without
glumes. OF TIE order, Typht' 1atjftJia
I(WooD), 1yphG Gnga&tJotia LINN J
g Leaves unslform, concaVe within near
he base; sterile aud fertile spikes close
| together, or more remote. A common,
/ smooth, tall inhabitant of the water in
muddy pools and bitches in the United
States and Canadas. The stem arises
! from three to five feet, round and smooth
| leafy below, terminated by the large cyl
indric spikes. Spikes of brown color,
six to ten inches in length, composed Of
slender, downy flowers, SO compact, par
tlcularly the fertile ones, as to be of con
siderable hardness The upper portion
is smaller, composed Of the sterile flow
ers. Leaves somewhat sword shaped,
erect, two to four feet long, and nearly
one inch wide. They are called flags,
and are made useful for weaving the
seats Of chairs, &C.
have been particular in giving the
full description az found in Woods Bota
ny, that no one need mistake it. The
brown tops are fully grown by the first
of August generally, and can be gathered
from that time until the SHOW flies, or as
late as they hang on their stems. Their
virtue remains any length of time, by
putting them in a bag and hanging in a
dry place. To prepare them for use, you
have only to pick off the downy su bstance
and mix with enough lard to form a
salve and apply it twice in the twenty
four hours. The relief is immediate |
have never known case that the pain
did not cease in from twenty to thirty
minutes. And over all other remedies
1t has this virtue; It acts as quickly on
an old burn that has become BAG sore,
as efficaciously as upon fresh barn. 1t
makes no difference by what the burn
has been made, steam, fire water, powder,
or any other conceivable burnin matter,
it is still Gas one sufferer said, when, in
twenty minutes his plan was relieYed) "a
miracle"
In these days we are too apt to neglect
some of the good old fashioned remedies
in our haste to seek our the new. Le:
our hospitals, our railroads and steam
boats keep supply of this natural rem
edy, which costs nothing but to gather it
on hand and see if suffering so soon rcliev
ed does not pay for all the trouble. Let
every paper copy this simple remedy,
that it's blessing may be felt in every part
Of our country, now while it is So much
needed in the fearful baptism of fire
through which we are passing.-W.