The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-25

pork rnd bound about the throat will accom-.
plish the same result Oils are used for the re-
lief OF irritation, though some of them, as cas-
tor Oil or croton, are themselves irritating
Many essential oils are very valuable for exter
ma! application on this account. You can react
inflammation or affection of the lungs through
the pores of the skin, without which treatment
swallowing quarts Of medicine would be of nc
avail.
The method of curing disease by absorption
rather than drugging the stomach, is princ
pie SO we'll understood in England that a com.
mlttee appointed by the Royal Medical Society
to investigate it, reported as follows: "The &C
tvlty OF nearly every substance which can be
used, IS three or four times greater when it is
gwen by the skin than when It is swallowed
1t is well.known fact Of history that the an
cients cured diseases by washing and oiing the
body. King Hezekiah was healed OF fearful
malady by the application of figs.
Every person knows the danger of placing
certain polsons on the surface of the body or of
holding poisonous matter in the hand, that in a
few moments the entire system could be poi
soned unto death.
A blister and poison can both be applied
on the same spot and at the same time, neither
being an impeachment to the other, showing be.
yond question that the body receives and
throws off at the same time. Holman's Pad is
twofold in its action. 1t throws a healthy veg
etable tonic into the system exactly where
needed, being placed over the liver and stom-
ach and centre of the nervous system which
pervades the digestive organs, leaving no un-
certain results and avoiding the circuitous
route of the circulation that internal medicines
must always take before reaching the liver.
Another property it has is to absorb from the
system all bilious, malarious and medicinal
poisons. The Pad is worn where there is but
the slight partition Of the skin between the in
ternal organs and the outward world, and there
should be 10 difficulty in treating diseases,
promptly and effectually, through this method,
provided the true properties are found. That
they have been found in Holman's Pad is
proved beyond question.
Mich is written IN our day on the influence
of the skin of the human body on the health of
the same. This shows the wonderful power of
the skin and pores to absorb the good or the
bad, the healthy or the injurious If you would
heal the sickness work with the skin, rally the
pores the natural outlet, the million little paths
God has provided through which evils may be
expelled and good may come to us. Give to
the diseased body, the worn-out brain and the
unnerved mind those natural, remedial agents,
refreshing sleep and the health-giving and en-
livening sunshine lavished so bountifally upon
u.s.
Cure yourself in part as Will Carleton cures
the sick woman in his popular poem Of ''The
Doctors Story"
'I opened the blinds; the day was bright,
And God gave Mrs. Rogers some light.
And God gave Mrs. Rogers some air.
lung difficulty, can myself bear living and
deeply grateful witness, for l was brought very
near to death when life was but fairly begun,
and when all the love and happiness it offered
me, (Which promise Heaven knows has been
trebly fulfilledl would have made it not easy to
watchful Providence, which placed me in the
care of a sensible, practical, be called himself
eclectic physician. MY life and whatever
source of good it has been or may be to myself
and friends was saved by the outward appica-
ton of remedy lin point of fact certain kind
of imported oily which of necessity worked
speedily and faithfully ere it should be too late
to work at all. naturally careful, healthful
diet and exercise in the open air, although it
was mid-winter, but the body was of course
we'll protected with under fiannels and outside
wraps, aided this curative.
That prompt and efficient treatment, without
distressing me with nauseous drugs, which l
was in no condition to bear, that skillful cure,
with the use of no medicine except a simple
tonic when the cure was already effected, 1
have just cause to remember while life shall
endure. And again, lately, has relief been af-
forded me without the necessity of swallowing
single drop of medicine. Within the last
year, with system reduced by unusual drains
upon it, and nerves and vitality weakened by
confined life impossible to avoid, have fallen
an easy prey to number of diseases
not of themselves at once dangerous,
but which in time might become so, and which
were at any rate sufficiently inconvenient and
painful. If any of you have ever been forced
to sit up in your bed at night and hold your
head with both hands, with neuralgia pains
darling through it in every direction, then 1
have no need to tell that this is real bodily suf
fering. For weeks at time had my feet so
swollen with rheumatism that to stand for five
minutes was distressing, and to walk without
limping impossible. Add to these, Indigestion
produced by haste and carelessness il eating,
and you will readily perceive that was in
need OF a thorough medical treatment which L
was nevertheless not willing to undergo in the
ordinary way, and to which indeed, l could not
have conveniently attended. l used the Hol-
man pad according to directions, which are ex-
ceedingly simple. AS matter of convenience,
felt the worst, put on the pad at
night on going to bedi when awoke in the
morning the neuralgia was gone and it has not
come back, nor has the rheumatism either. In
ten days after putting on the pad, was per-
fectly well. 1 also used the pad in the case of
my little boy five years of age. He was rest
less in tina night, complained Of pain In the
stomach and was very feverish. L put on the
Pad. 1t acted first as an 'emetic relieving his
stomach at once Of what had caused the pain,
and then carried away through the bowels the
fever and illness, whatever had been the cause,
effecting its cure without being any inconve-
nience to him or myself. So that l am able to
speak from personal experience of the effica-
cy of the Pad. And l could tell you of many
cases of more complicated diseases, especially
in my own sex, that have seen cured by the
Pad, none than have time to describe or you
would be willing to listen to.
Among the mistakes which occur in medi-
cal practice, some of them which are blundered
into by those who have not the skill and sense
which usually belongs to the profession are in
10 mi 10 A an hain Upru
sick was told by his physician not to eat cab.
bage, but he disobeyed, and to the doctors sur
prise when told of the fact, he found his pa
tent improving. He consequently decided
that cabbage was good for that particular COM
plaipt so soon afterwards, when an Irishman
and Yankee had each the same symptoms, be
Immediately resorted to cabbage as remedy.
The result was, both died. He made q mem
orandum thus: Cabbage is good for Dutch
man, but death to an Irishman or Yankee.
You need make no distinction, however, in
the use of the Pad, it acts upon all rationale
ties alike. A medical student hearing the ply
sician with whom he studied, on the occasion
of visiting with him one of his patients, accuse
him of eating oysters against his directions, he
judging he had done SO by seeing the shells
carelessly exposed, thought he could apply the
same logic on his being obliged to visit alone
one day when the doctor was ill. To the utter
surprise of one of the Old doctors patients, he
accused him of.eatng horse, for said he. 81
see the saddle under your bed" The changes
which are continually being made in the man.
ner Of curing diseases are well illustrated by
the difference between the present and former
methods of treating fevers. In the old way,
the patient was bled, physicked, poisoned,
purged, starved, until no reactive power re.
manned when he gave up the ghost to treat
ment instead of the disease. Among all the
rest of the abuse which he received, water was
refused him. Doctors in those days said "cold
water is DEATH and the sufferer begged for it
in vain to allay the fever fire, until he died for
the want of it. To day the patient gets clear
water, ice and ice water in abundance, because
investigation has since taught us that when
the system is burning with fever and we are
thus very thirsty, that water and other fluids
enter the blood Immediately By the nervous
absorbents of the stomach, instead of descend
ing through the pylorus as the food always
does, and drink also except in this special case
when it is transmitted directly to the veins and
heart, a wise and benevolent provision Of the
Great Architect of Nature, for the prompt re-
lief Of the body in fevers, for which natural
fluids are the most appropriate medicines.
People whose daily occupation keeps them con-
tinually within four walls these whom neces-
sity confines in shops, factories, stores, schools
any in fact who lead what should call an in
doors life, from the continual breathing of air
necessarily more or less impure and often over
heated, frequently find themselves victims of
weaknesses and diseases to which those who
lead more exposed, open air life are much
less liable. Ladies particularly, those, L mean
whose duties are at home, whose daily tasks
begin every morning without even the rrelm-
mary exercise and change of air that the walk