Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-24

lllueSSi my delivery from death being due to
the wonderful discovery in MEDICAL science,
made by a man who to-day stands in the
front rank OF. his felow-workers; %unequalcd
by any in my own opinion. That l, who
heretofore have ever been the most orthodox
believer In the old school OF medicine, its
application and results, should thus recant in
favor of that which is sieerel ut by old prac-
tltloners, may startle you, but Seeing is believ-
ing and when l recount the attack made
on my old hulk, how near l came to lowering
my colors, and the final volley, which, through
the agency above. mentioned, gave me vic
tory, you Will at least credit me with just
cause for sincerity in my thanklulncss and
belief. l will also spin M yarn anent my
China cruise, and, altogether. expect to en-
terrain as we'll as be entertained by you.
Rear Admiral U. S. Navy.
Hon. GEoRGE WENDELL,
Sinclair Place, Boston.
An autumGal afternoon in the year 1885,
found the taut flagship N0mdd rounding
the treacherous ana dangerous extremity OF
South America. And this day certainly in
tended to place itself on record with those of
It's predecessors marked stormy, its nastiness
In wind and weather giving all Hands on board
the flagship their fill in hard work and dis
comforts. The record oil the Nomad on this
cruise, which she Was now completing on her
homeward bound pass. ge to Boston, had
been most disagreeable, when considered in
DIX 1iSut u ucaFy WeaLler WOrk. FROM SuSZ
to Alden, then on to Bombay, Point de Gale,
singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nagasaki
and Yokohama, the balance sheet stood
largely in favor of old Neptune's rough char
acteristics, but with remarkable evenness the
health and original roster of the ships COM
pany stood this day as it did nearly three
years ago-with one exec ption. Throughout
the diverse and varied exposures incidental
to cruising over the Asiatic station, where
cholera, fevers, liver complaints, malaria, aud
colds of all degrees reign in full force, none
OF the crew had suffered more than tenn.
porary Inconvenience, and thus 1t seemed
very hard that now, in the closing days of
the cruise, there stood niue chances for, to
one against, a victory being at last scored for
the destroying angel Death. When the Nomad
cruise her admiral was the healthiest man
aboard. A grand specimen of manhood was
he. Over SIN feet in height, weighing two
hundred pounds, broad in chest and strong in
share of Natures blessings. While returning
late one night from q diplomatic reception at
the Consulate at Shanghai, through over
heating and insufficient protection from the
dangerous effects of the peculiarly damp and
searching night air, he caught cold. "Only
a cold, y remarked the admiral to the doctors
OF his ship, land easy to cure" So thought
the medical officers, but with a quiet though
insidious progression, this cold chung to the
admiral in spite of their best efforts to eradi-
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Yokohama, homeward bound, the admiral
realized that his lungs and throat were deci-
dedly out OF order. The doctors advisedFr re.
turning home by mail steamer to San Fran
cisco, SO that greater means for curing this
persistent cough might be found in the
Naval Hospital there; but the admiral
preferred to stick to his ship, still inn
agining that his trouble would eventually
be overcome by the doctors treatment.
h. No one who looked at the admiral even in
those days imagined that he would fall a
victim to lung trouble. But it was the old
story again typitied in this case. Only a cold
at first; and in spite of orthodox treatment
the peculiar climatic effects of China nursed
it, and fastened the sure result of such a
deep-seated trouble. Time passed after leav-
ing Yokohama for Boston. bringing varying
symptoms in the admiral's case, and the
doctors imagined that they held the disease
tubercies, nisht,sweats, and the now rapid
consumption of lung tissues. which had set
in with alarming symptoms, the patient
realized that his cold had laid the seeds of
that fell agent Of Death, consumption. The
hacking cough of the admiral had i'll itself
been sufficient food for serious con-
sideration, and now, as in the warm
autumn DAYS the flagship gallantly rode
over the blue waters of the Pacific, bound for
Cape Horn, the doctors hoped much for sue
cess. But this boisterous afternoon found
the good ship struggling with gigantic seas
set off from the Cape by q fierce northerly
wind. Leaden were the heavens and sad the
hearts of all aboard, for that morning the
forth this intelligence: The admiral is in
sam condition as reported last night, A
burning fever his been slightly reduced,
while other symptoms are as heretofore an
nounced." All understood these words with
out questioning. The beloved admiral had
during the past two weeks sunk very low.
The symptoms of blocd-poisoning, a torpid
liver, intense pains throughout the body, eye
sight and mental faculties affected, appetite
gone, through %inaction of that great regula-
tOr-thc liver. These were the means which
had reduced the admiral from the pinnacle of
health to the valley and shadow of de It'll.
C~onsumptiom held full sway now, andtlie we'll
known skill of naval doctors was in this in
stance at least completely foiled.
The admiral had issued orders Tor the flag
ship to touch at Montevideo for coal, and 1T
was the intention OF the doctors to land the
admiral there for treatment. But one man
in the ship was wra; ped in the gloom OF dis
pair, as standing by the weather rigging on
the poop deck he gazed absently over the
scething waste of waters. This was the adj
miral's son, a lieutenant, and attached to his
fathers staff. He feared that the wear and
tear of ship-life would sap his fathers strength
reach Montevideo. Among a group of sailors
gathered around one of the great guns on the
spar deck stood the captain of the fore-top,
Brown, Il slight but healthy looking man.
| his companions were llSLculllS W d III VI
his sutferings from consumption, which had
developed while he was attached to the sloop-
of-war Han4ge,, lying in the harbor OF Yoko-
hama a year ago, this '.yarn" having been
started by a discussion about the admiral's
condition. The men had just returned from
some work around the deck, an order for
WHICH had interrupted Browns story u few
moments previously.
ga year ago this day l was hove to in the
pill man's' sick bay in the Ranger. then off
Yokohama, am ! tell you, pards, 'twasn o use
pipin' my number, cause l was nigh on
passin' in my enlistment papers for a long
cruise aloft," continued Brown. 'Consump-
ton had me flat aback, and the doctor says 1t
was no use to stow away his lush in my hold
seein' that my bellows was condemned by a
| higher power than he could wrastle with"
"How did you quicker out OF it!' asked a
gunner's mate.
"Wa'all," replied Brown, my Chinee
washman come to me one mornin' an he says
to me, sme hab got alice same Mclean man
medikin, do you heap goodP says bring it
| of, Chang, / buy all the same. That alter.
noon Chang hove up with fourteen bottles OF
| alush, enough to kill or cure the whole ships
crew. am that looked fresh in their nice wrap
pers. Says Chang, China man doctor ha6
got plentee more, he make heap good well
| with my sick, this number one medikin alice
same through Yokohama Wa'all, Ltook the
hot+loc an: fold the doctor l was rOin' to try