Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-11-06

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The first time / began To sneeze
q friend told me 10 60 and bathe ny
feet In hot water and 90 10 bed.
did SO. Shortly after another friend
told me 10 get up and take cold
shower bath. / did that also.
Within the hour another friend as.
sured me that 1t was policy to feed
a cold and starve a fever. ] had
both, So j thought il best to fll
myself up for the cold, and let the
fever starve awhile. In a case Oi
this kind / seidOm do things by
halves; ate pretty heartily. /
conferred my custom upon a stran-
ger, who had just opened his restau-
rant on Corlandt street, near the hO-
tel, that morning, paying for full
meal. He waited near me In res
pectful silence until / had finished
feeding my cold, when he inquired
If the people about New York were
much afflicted with colds. 1 told
him thought they were. He then
went out and took in his sign.
/ started up towards the Office,
and on the way encountered anOth-
er bosom friend, who told me that
quart of warm salt water would
come as near curing a cold as any
thing in the world. hardly
thought I had room for il, but /
tried il anyhow. The result was
surprising. ! believe / threw up
my immortal soul. Now, as ! give
my experience only for the benefit
of your friends who are troubled
with this distemper, 1 feel that they
will see the propriety of my eau
tioning them against following such
portions of it as proved insufficient
with me, and acting upon this con-
viction l warn them against warm
salt water. 1t may be good en-
ough remedy, but think II 4 rath-
er too severe. If / had another
cold in the head, and there was no
course left me but 10 take either an
or a quart Of warm salt
water, i would take my chances on
the earthquake. After this every
body in the hotel became interested,
and / took all sorts of remedies
hot lemonade, cold lemonade, pep
per tea, boneset, .stewed quaker,
syrup, onions and loaf
sugar, lemonade and brown sugar,
and laudanum, five bottles
)f fir balsam, eight bottles Of cherry
Dectoral, and ten bottles Of Uncle
SANS remedy, but all without eff
ect. One of the prescriptions Civ
IN by an old lady was--well, il was
lreadful. She mixed decoction
of Inolasses, catnip, pep
aqua fOrtis, turpentine,
kerosene and various other drugs,
md instructed me to take wine
,lass full of it every fifteen minutes.
never took but one dose that was
enough. / had to take TO my bed,
md remain there for two entire
lays. When / felt a little better,
more things were recommended. /
vas desperate and willing 10 take
Plain gin was recon-
then gin and molasses,
hen gin and onions. took all
hree. / detected no particular re-
ult, however, except that i had ac-
Iuired q breath like a turkey buz-
ard, and had to change my board
ng-place. At this new place they
different remedy TO any
ret tried. A sheet bath was recon-
nended. / had never refused
emedy yet therefore determined
o take sheet bath, though 1 had
10 idea what sort of arrangement
t was. IL was administered at
and the weather was very
rOsty. My back and breast were
tripped, and a sheet There APP
,eared TO be thousand yards of it)
oaked in ice water was wound
round me until / resembled a swab
or columbiad. IT is a cruel expo
lent. When the chilly rag touches
ne's warm flesh ii makes him start
With sudden violence and gasp for
reath Just as men do in the death
gony. IT froze the marrow In my
ones and stopped the beating Of
ny heart. / thought my time had
ONE. When i recovered from
his a friend recommended the app
Of a mustard plaster to MY
reast. / believe that would have
ured me effeetually il il had not
cen for young Clemens. When l
vent to bed / put the mustard plas-
er where L could reach 1t when i
hOuld be ready for il. But young
'Iemens got hungry in the night
nd ate it up. / never saw any
hid have such an appetite. ! am
onfident that he would have eaten
ne If / had been healthy.
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