The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-01-20
A NEW CURE FOR PARALYSIS.
How Young Women Restored Her Par
alyzed Arm to Action.
fFrom The Virginia Enterprise.

From the Virginia Enterprise
"About year ago a curious thing hap
pened here" yesterday remarked robust
and rosy-cheeked butcher, whom we had
been complimenting on his fresh and healthy
appearance. 81 know" continued our
butcher acquaintance, "that, as a rule, men
engaged in my business enjoy good health,
and have fresh, rosy look but whether
dabbling in blood and breathing and abb
sorbiug the fumes and vapors arising from
fresh meats has nothing to do with this, as
you appear to believe, cannot say neither
have | seen any blood drinking, either by
butchers or others. But, as l have said, a
very curious circumstance occurred here
about year ago. | generally work in the
market-so | must get my red cheeks
through what absorb from the meats |
handle-but about year ago one Of our
butchers took sick, and | filled | is place in
the slaughther house for about six weeks
II had not been in the slaughter house
long until one afternoon about two O'Clock
our time to begin killing carriage
drove up. Two ladies alighted one known
to me as the wife of the superintendent of
one Of our leading ComstOck mines, and the
other young lady from San Francisco, as
| afterward learned | saw, almost as soon
as the ladies arrived, that the younger one
had no use of her right arm. 1t was so
completely paralyzed that she was obliged
to move it about with her left hand. | OBJ
served that when she wanted to put her
deadhand into her muff she was obliged to
reach through with her left, get hold of the
hand and then draw it to where she wanted
it, just as though it had been a skein of
yarn. Well, it appears there had been some
understanding about the young lady com
ing there, but what she did not a little sur
prised some Of us the first day she came.
The ladies stood looking on while we hauled
up bullock and knocked him on the head.
No sooner had the knife been withdrawn
from the animals throat than the young
lady threw off the large mantle that she
wore, and, rushing forward, sat down upon
the floor just at the bullock's neck, where
Il torrent Of blood was gushing. She then
barred her right arm and thrust it into the
shoulder into the gaping and blOod-spOut-
ing throat Of the animal, holding it there
until the blood had ceased to flow We
were then killing about thirty animals every
afternoon, and every day regularly the girl
came and thrust her dead arm into the
bleeding throat Of one or more of them.
That girl had great courage, and was not
one Of your over-nice kind, | can tell you
She had coarse dress of some neavy wool
len stuff that she wore for the purpose, and
when the bullock fell, and the knife had
done its work, she at once ran up and seated
herself on the floor, as regardless of the
blood as if it had been so much water.
There she would hang across the neck of
the beast until it ceased to bleed She was
so brave that we were all glad when she
got well ] remembered how happy she
was when she came one day and showed us
that she could begin to open and close her
| fingers. From that time forward she i'm
proved rapidly. Soon she could move her
arm, and finally could grasp and lift things
with her hand. | think she came for about
three weeks before she was cured. The last
day she came she was quite bright and
merry-more so than | had ever seen her
After putting on her mantle she thanked
us all for our kindness to her and shook
hands with us, giving us the cured hand
which, as she laughingly said we had some
right to- After the young lady went away
we thought we should see many persons
there to try the blood bath, but none
have ever come. The girl was the only
one, and | never saw anything like it be
fore or since"
BARNUM, the philosophic Snowman, lee