Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-26
liE TRIED LEMONS,
And RecOmmends Them as IN
Excellent Remedy for the
smallpox.

Last April DR.. James Moore. of
Ironton, Ohio, published his expert
ence with lemons as a remedy for
smallpox. 1t is as follows:
T..r HIS EXPERIENCE.
was taken sick April IA with what
l supposed was a severe cold, having
had my hair shingled the previous
Friday. The fourteenth / was quite
feverish, with severe pain in the
head and back. Saturday, 18th, 1
was no better; Sunday, fever some
what reduced, | presume by the aid Of
anconite, which had been admins
tered to me by Drs. Morris and Dunn;
eruption very indistiuct underneath
the skin.
Monday morning, 18th, eruption un-
mistakably that Of smallpox. Tues.
day 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 arms, hands, legs and body
they were pretty evenly distributed,
but not SO closely packed as upon the
above mentioned parts. By evening ]
was suffering intensely from those on
the scalp. By 1890 o'clock the pain
was almost intolerable. My nurse had
retired and was sound asleep in bed.
My feet were SO tender that | dare not
let them touch the foot board of tn
bed. My head i could not suffer to
lie on the pillow. | lay, raised up on
my elbow, my neck resting on my
hand. l had by this time become
nervous dare not shut my eyes from
fear Of seeing unpleasant visions.
Pulse about ninety. | had upon the
table at the bedside a pitcher of
water and a drinking glass, box of
seidlitz powders, and an ounce Of
chlorate Of potash in crystals. / had
also, at my bedside a paper of lemons
also one of oranges. These were all
the agents within my reach.
HE TRIES LEMONS.
| recollected that lemon juice in
sufficient quanty was a sedative, and
would lower the hearts action, and by
so doing might relieve me Of those un-
pleasant visions. | Therefore squeezed
all the juice | possibly could out of
one of the lemons into the glass, to
which | added about two tablespoons
full of water, and drank it. | then open
ed the rind and sucked the balance Of
the juice. In about tweaty minutes
Itook another lemon and used it in
the same manner. In short time l
felt very cold, as if | were lying in
close proximity to a large mass of ice
or snow. My pulse had dropped to
sixty. / shut my eyes to see if the I'M
pleasant visions were gone. l
not only found that they were gone.
but byplacing my hand upon my head 1
found the pox had gone also. My
hand was bathed with gummous.like
fluid, which had exuded from the
pox 1t stained the napkin I had
applied to wipe it off. 1t see ned
as if such had given up j 8 con-
tents and wilted down to o level
with the surface. The same h dtaken
place with those upon my fac. 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 consider.
ably. l laid down and slept two
hours comfortably. | awoke, | pre-
sumo, from cold, although had
plenty of cover over me, and the fire
was still burning in the CRATE. | felt
so we'll pleased that | took a little
more lemon juice. [ kept my pulse at
from sixty to sixty-seven for thirty.
six hours, when all eruption and ele-
vations had disappeared from my skin.
| then bid good bye to lemon juice
and smallpox.
So strongly | am convinced of the
power Of lemon juice to abort any and
every case Of smallpox, if administered
as administered it myself, that l
look upon it as a specific of as much
certainty and power in smallpox as
as quinine is in intermittent fever. l
therefore publish my experiments,
hoping every physician having a case
of smallpox will give it fair trial,
and report the result to me.