The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-10-28
The Extraordinary Cure Wrought by an
Italian PeaSanteSS.

Italian Peasantess.
The Brooklyn UnSon-Argus of late
date says: There is a.curious sequel to
the legal action of Mrs. Amelia w.
Slower, of Boston, against Drs. Catlin
and EImendorf, of this city, to recover
S1OO,OO for alleged malpractice. The
slit against DIR. Elmendorf was subse-
quently discontinued. That against DIR.
Catlin is yet pending. Mrs. Slower
injuries were caused May q, 1873, by
her falling from a piano stool, at the
residence of her sister, Mrs. Thorburn,
at 81 South Portland Avenue, this city,
while she was trying to light the hall
gas. She became cripple, and expert
physicians and surgeons gave her little
hope of recovery. She came to court
on crutches, moved slowly and was ev-
identity in pain. She isnow greatly im-
proved, using only two canes and some
times but one. In explanation of this
she made the following statement to a
reporter:
g have been the subject of one of
the most wonderful cures. and l am
willing to tell the story, because it will
expose the lack of accurate scientific
learning among physicians. After two
years OF suffering, in which was treated
for fracture and for sprains, and had
to encounter all the opinions about the
impossibility of bony union in an in
terscapular fracture. and about inter-
stitial absorption of the injured part, l
at last found out that in all of the mass
of learning poured over my case the
true cause of my trouble was not ap-
parently thought of, and that, after all,
was suffering from dislocated thigh
bone, which needed to be set. Had any
OF the physicians consulted discovered
this and reset the displaced bone at
first, probably would have been we'll
to-day. About week after the trial I
asked my sister, Mrs. Thorburn, to &C
company me to see Signora Regina Dal
Gin, the Italian peasant, who came to
this country last fall with the family of
General Stewart L. Woodford, who,
having heard of her wonderful cures,
made a pilgrimage to her home in
Northern Italy to secure her for their
crippled daughter. We hadn't much
faith in Nine. Dial Gin, aud had no
thought that she could effect cure for
me; but we wished to see if her opinion
agreed with that of nearly all educated
physicians, that the injury was an in
durable fracture. She at once pro-
nounced the trouble a dislocation, and
said that she could cure me. When she
said tina: almost tainted with Joy. She
explained clearly, through an interpre-
ter, because she cannot speak English,
all the causes of my agony, and pre-
scribed poultice of marsh-mallow and
bran to relax the muscles preparatory
to setting the limb. | went to bed, fol-
lowed her directions and in a few days
she came and, placing one hand upon
the head of the limb which was out of
place, guided it, while she gently turned
it below the knee, and, by moving it to
and fro, up and down, with the greatest
gentleness, she at length uttered a
Bravar' clapped her hands and |
knew that the limb was set, for it again
had natural feeling. The whole oper-
alton was performed without the slight
est pain. had awaited the time with
so much apprehension and with so much
fear that she would not be able to do
what she said, that was physically ex-
hausted and was unable to leave my bed
for some time to try the limb. She had
been applying the whites of two eggs
beaten stiff and laid upon bunch of
tow every day for forty days and then
she began to anoint the hip with lard
taken from a hogs kidney and prepa-
ration of white wine and scalded bran.
These remedies worked like magic in
restoring the muscles to their place and
in drawing the part into natural shape.
l. however, complained of pain at the
knee. The Madame, who seems to see
with the tips of her fingers, felt around
the knee, used dexterious pressure at
one point and the pain ceased. She said
that two muscles had Tapped over the
knee and needed only to be pushed
apart. In time threw aside my crutch-
es and now walk with canes and ex-
pect to yet leave these at home. A few
days ago walked seven blocks, which
was good for an incIIrahle crinnle >,