Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-06-01
Lemons for Small-Pox.
4 Pieasonf Specific Diseossred by an iroa-
feS fO-) PhysiciaH.

4 Pisasonf Specific Discovered by an iroa-
feS {O) Physieian.
From the Cincinnati Gazette.]
Twas taken sick April 14th with
what I supposed was q severe cold,
having had my hair shingled the day
previous. Friday, 10TH, I was quite
feverish, with severe pain m my head
and back. Saturday, 18th, I YVES no
better. Sunday, fever somewhat re
duced, 1 presume, by the aid of aco-
mite, which had been administered to
me by Drs. Morris and Dunn; erup-
ton very indistinct underneath the
skin.
Monday morning, 18th, eruption
Enthusiastically that OF smallpox Tues
day morning, eruption very abundant;
crop increasing rapidly IN size and
number. Wednesday morning, a very
dense crop all over the face, forehead
and scalp of head, neck and soles OF
feet. Upon the arms, hands, legs
and body they were pretty evenly
distributed, but not SO closely packed
as upon the aforementioned parts.
By evening was suffering intensely
from those upon the scalp. By 1890
o'clock the pain was almost intolera-
BILE. My feet were so tender that l
dare not let them touch the foot
board of the bed. Ny head l could
not suffer to lie upon the pillow. 1
lay, raised upon my elbow, my neck
resting upon my hand. Ihad by this
time become SO nervous l dare not
shut my eyes for fear of seeing IN
pleasant visions. Pulse about ninety.
1 had upon the table at the bedside
pitcher of water and a drinking glass,
a box of seidlitz powders and one
ounce of chlorate of potash in crys-
tails. Ihad also at my bedside paper
of lemons and also one of oranges.
These were all the agents within my
reach.
l recollected that lemon juice in
sufficient quantity was sedative and
would lower the hearts action, and
by SO doing might relieve me OF
those unpleasant visions 1 therefore
all the juice 1 possibly
could out of one of the lemons into
the glass, to which 1 added about
two tablespoons of water and drank
it. 1 then opened the rind and suck
ed the balance of the juice. In about
twenty minutes 1 took another lemon
and used it in the same manner. In
a short time 1 felt very cold, as if I
were lying in close proximity to a
large mass of snow or ice. My pulse
had dropped to sixty. I shut my
eyes to see if the unpleasant visions
were gone, but by placing my hand
upon my head I found the pox upon
my head had gone also. My head
was bathed with a grumous-ike fluid,
which had exuded from the pox. 1t
the napkin 1 had applied to
wipe It off. 1t seemed as if each had
given up its contents and wilted down
to level with the surface. The same
had taken place with those upon my
lace. Ny beard was glued together
With the same kind of fluid. Those
upon my neck had not burst, but had
shrunk away and diminished in size
considerably. LAID down and slept
two hours comfortably. I awoke, 1
presume, from cold; 1 had plenty of
cover upon me and the fire was still
burning in the CRATE. l felt so well
pleased that l took a little lemon
Juice. 1 kept my pulse at from sixty
to seventy for thirty six hours, when
Ill eruptions and elevations had dis
from my skin. 1 then
babe goodby to lemon juice and
smallpox.
So strongly am convinced in the
power of lemon juice to abort any
and every case of smallpox, if ad-
as / administered it to my
self, that ! look upon it as a specific
and power in small -pox as quinine is
in intermittent fever. 1 therefore
publish my experiment, hoping that
every physician having case of small
pox will give it a fair trial and report
the result to me.
JAMES MOORE, Surgeon, NJ. d.
Ironton, Ohio, April 25, 1881.