The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1883-08-18
HOW TO CURE A COLD.


Marx Traia.
The first time | began to sneeze,
friend told me to 90 and bathe my feet
in hot water and go to bed. Ibid so.
Shortly after another friend told me to
get up and take cold shower bath.
did that also. Within the hour another
friend assured me that il was policy to
feed a cold and starve a fever. | had
both. So thought il best to fill my
self up for the cold, and let the fever
starve awhile In case of this kind |
seldom do things by halves ate pret.
~ heartily. lconfcrred my custom up
on stranger, who had just opened his
restaurant on Cortlandt street, near
the hotel, that morning, paying so
much for full meal. He waited near
me in respectful silence until had
finished feeding my cold, when he in.
quired If the people about New York
were much afflicted with colds. / told
him thought they were. He then
went out and took in his sign.
started up toward the Office, and
on the way encountered another bosom
friend, who told me that a quart of
warm salt water would come as near
curing a cold as anything in the world.
| hardly thought had room for il. but
| tried i, any how. The result was
surprising. believe ! threw up my
immortal soul. Now, rs give my ex-
pericncc only for the benefit Of those Of
your friends who are troubled with this
distemper, feel tha, they will see the
propriety OF my cautioning them against
following such portions of it as proved
inefficient with me, and acting upon
this conviction ! warn them against
warm salt water. Il may be a good
enough remedy, but think it is rather
too severe. II had another cold in
the head. and there was no course left
me to take either an earthquake or a
quart Of warm salt water, would take
my chances on the earthquake. After
this everybody in the hotel became in.
terested, and | took all sorts OF RENE
dies-hot lemonade, cold lemonade,
pepper tea. boneset, stewed quaker,
horehound syrup, onions and loaf sugar,
lemons and brown sugar, vinegar and
laudanum, five bottles fir balsam, eight
bottles cherry pectoral, and ten bot.
ties Uncle Sans remedy, but all with.
out effect One of the prescriptions
given by an old lady, was-well, it was
dreadful. She mixed decoction COM
posed of molasSeS, catnip, peppermint,
acquafortis, turpeniine, kerosene, and
various other drugs, and instructed me
TO take a wincglassful Of il every fifteen
minutes. never took but one dose;
that was enough. had to take to my
bed, and remain there for two entire
days. When | felt little better, more
things were recommended. was des-
pera,e, and willing to take anything
Plain gin was recommended, then gin
and molasses, then gin and onions.
took all three. detected no particular
result, however, except that | had ac-
qured a breath like 4 turkey buzzard,
and had to change my boarding place.
AT this new place they suggested a
different remedy TO any yet. tried. A
sheet bath was recommended. ] had.
never refused remedy yet, and it
seemed poor policy to commence
then; therefore | determined to take
shee, bath, though | had no idea
wha, sort OF an arrangement it was. II
was administered at midnight, and
the weather was very frosty. My back
and breast were stripped, and a sheet
(there appeared to be a thousand yards
OF IL soaked in ice water was wound
around me until resembled swab for
columbiad. |; was cruel expedient.
When the chilly rags touches ones
warm flesh, il makes him start with
sudden violence and gasp for breath,
just As men do in the death agony. II
iroze the marrow in my bones and
stopped the beating of my heart,
thought my Sme had come. When |
recovered from this, a friend recon.
mended the application OF a mustard
plaster to my breast. believe that
would have cured me efectually il it
had not been for young Clements. When
went to bed put the mustard plas-
ter where | could reach il when should
be ready for it. But young Clements
got hungry in the night, and ate it up.
never saw any child have such an
appetite. am confident ,ha, he would
have eaten me il had been healthy.
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