Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-06-29
NO. 80.
ALARMED AT THE CURE.

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Ga man named Holland, living ont
on the Goss farm, says the Fond du
Lac Commonwealth, was attacked with
severe toothache the other evening
and he thought his head would split
open. Everybody III the house was
made miserable with the mans suffer-
ings and lamentations. He tried hold
ing alum and salt in his mouth and
binding horseradish leaves on the out
side of bis jaw, but they did no good.
Finally somebody came. across a recipe
book and therein was balm for every
I'll. In two minutes a recipe was select
ed and courier dispatched with it to a,
drug store in the city to have it ''put
up" He returned in due time and q
dose of the compound, which contained
among other ingredients liberal quanti-
ties of ether and chloroforrn, was
administered Presently the toothache
was relieved and the patient felt himself
gradually oyerpowered by sleep. The
suspicion all at one crossed his mind
that he had been poisoned. He became
greatly alarmed, and appealed to those
present, in a frenzy Of desperation, to
save him from his impending fate. A
doctor was Immediately sent for, and
while the messenger was gone the
alarm WAS communicated to the neigh
bors. One Of the ncn seized a PAL
and rushed out into the pasture, where
he woke up a COW, milked about a
quart, and hurried back to the house.
This the dying man drank, and had just
finished when another neighbOr came
in and said that there was nothing so
sure all antidote for ali kinds Of poison
as raw eggs. Seven or eight raw eggs
were given the suffering man, and he
had just intlmated that it wasn't pos
sible tor him to swallow another, when
two more neighbors arrived simultane-
ously-one bearing can Of lard and
Che other a tea-saucer full of coffee.
The lady with the lard said that they
must help her to get some Of it down
him right away-there wasn'ta moment
to lose-and the one with the coffee set
about preparing cup Of that beverage
for the dying man, which, she said,
must be strong enough to hold up an
iron wedge. The unfortunate man had
| got down about three-fourths Of tea
| cuptul of lard when the coffee was
ready, and he unbuttoned his waistcoat
and swallowed it. There seemed to be
just room enough lett for it. Another
nelghbor came in, and insisted that
what the patient needed was an emetic
to throw the poison out OF the stomach
He said the quicker they did something
/ Vi tIlc hliiO llIS OCltCI ~ w CG-I UG 4CI
him, and that it was dangerous to delay
| the matter minute longer. They had
prepared a quart bowl of strong salt
and water, and were urging Holland TO
take some of it, when the doctor arrived.
! He examined the contents of the bottle
carefully, tasted it and then said : ''This
is all right; very good remedy for
| toothacEe aud Observation-Disclosures the
! patient rest for a time from his pain"
And amt it poison, gprgled the man,
who was so full of new milk, raw eggs,
lard, coffee and salt water that he could
scarcely articulate, ''ain't it posion, doc
tor 2" 'sWell, no, not exactly and yet
quart or two of it might kill man
or. it might mott would depend a
good deal on his condition. A man of
of your health and constitution could
easy get away with churn full of it. D."