Daily globe., 1882-01-30

| nlmSef at Cn6 6LuQ. lie SlreQ NUMBER OF
valuable colts and fillies, which have been sold
value to the breeding interests of the country"
| he TRIED LEMONS.
| And Recommends Them as an Eccellent
| Remedy for tho Smallpox.
The Scientific american publishes some
interesting particulars concerning the
practice of DR.. A. 8. Payne, late profess
sor in Southern Medical college, Atlanta,
Ga. DR.. Payne says that as early as 1s46
he noticed that the initial smallpox fever
could be discovered by its peculiar pulse
before any other symptom appeared. Hav-
ing disco vered this pulse, he proceeded to
vaccinate If this is done within ten or
twelve hours after the inception of the
fever the patient will have a slight in
disposition, without sign Of eruption,
and as positive exemption from reoc-
currence of the disease as if it had passed
through its stages. A remarkable feature
of this experience is that if the patient is
vaccinnated early after the initial fever
sets in he may be allowed to 60 where he
| pleases without fear Of spreading the dis
ase. Prof. Payne has tried his plan for
| thirty-four years, on more than 100
cases, without failure. He advises the
| discontinuance of smallpox hospitals,
| as tending to increase the ravages of
| the disease, and instead recommends iso-
lation of patients, and, where parties are
disposed to the smallpox, visit them twice
| a day, and as soon as the fever is recog-
nized vaccinate them. He believes this
l or fho
| which is now becoming so prevalent.
ton, O., published his experience with
lemons as remedy for smallpox. 1t is as
| follows:
81 was sick April IA with what sup
posed was severe cold, having had my
| 18th l was quite feverish, with severe
pain in the head and back.
Saturday, 10th, was no better; Sunday,
somewhat reduced, I presume by the
aid of aconite, which had been ad-
ministered to me by Drs. Morris and
Duna; eruption very indistinct under
meath the skin.
Monday morning, 18th, eruption un-
mistakably that of smallpox. Tuesday
morning eruption very abundant, crop
increasing rapidly in size and number.
Wednesday morning very dense crop
| all over the face, forehead, scalp of head,
neck and soles of feet. Upon the hands,
| legs and body they were pretty evenly
| distributed, but not so closely packed as
upon the above mentioned parts
| By evening l was suffering in
tensely from those on the scalp.
By 1890 O'Clock the pain was al
most intolerable. My nurse had retired
| and was sound asleep in bed. My feet
were so tender that dare not let them
touch the footboard of the bed. My
| head could not suffer to lie on the pill
| low. lay raised up on my elbow, my
| neck resting on my hand. had by this
| time become so nervous l dare not shut
| my eyes from fear of seeing unpleasant
visions Pulse about 80. had upon the
table at the bedside a pitcher of water
and a drinking glass, box Of seldlitz
| powders, and an ounce of chlorate of po-
| tash in crystals l had also at my bed
| side a paper of lemons, also one of
oranges. These were all the agents with
in my reach.
81 recollected that lemon juice in suff1-
cient quantity was sedative, and would
lower the hearts action, and by SO doing
| might relieve me of those unpleasant
visions. l therefore squeezed all the
! juice l possibly could out of one of the
lemons into the glass, to which l added
about two tablespoonfuls Of water, and
drank it, l then opened the rind and
sucked the balance of the juice. In
about twenty minutes l took another
lemon and used it in the same man
ner. In short time l felt very cold,
as if l were lying in close proximity
to large mass of snow or ice. My
pulse had dropped to sixty. l shut
my eyes to see if the unpleasant visions
| were gone. 1 not only found that they
were gone, but by placing my hand upon
my head found the pox had gone also.
| My head was bathed with gummous-ike
fluid, which had exuded from the pox. 1t
| stained the napkin had applied to wipe
| it off. 1t seemed as if such had given up
| its contents and wilted down to a
level with the surface. The
same had taken place with those upon
my face. My 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. awoke, presumed,
from cold, although l had plenty of cover
over me and the fire was still burning in
the CRATE. Ifelt 80 we'll pleased that took
little more lemon juice. I kept my
pulse at from sixty to sixty-seven for
hirty-six hours, when all eruptions, all
elevations had disappeared from my
skin. then bid good-by to lemon juice
and smallpox.
$50 strongly l am convinced of the
power of lemon-juice to abort any and
every case Of smallpox, that look upon
it as specific of as much certainty and
power in smallpox as quinine Is in inter-
mittent fever. I, therefore, publish my
experiments, hoping every physician
having case of smallpox will give it a
fair trial, and report the result to me-"
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