Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-30
Lemons vs.. Malaria.

Doctors are growing sensible and seek
| ing remedies for diseases among the SIM
! pie things of nature instead of combining
their researches to the platitudes of sci
entidc twaddle. Doctor, or Prof. Crudeli,
presented the most interesting paper
which was read before the recent Inter-
national Medical Congress at Copenhagen,
and it was devoted to the ex~ eriences of
the Professor in proving that the common
lemon, while the cheapest, most simple
and natural, was also the most harmless
and efectual preventive of that univer-
sally distributed vegetable germ called
malaria, but which revels in mud swamps
and attains to its greatest luxurIance in
permanently moist lands uncovered to the
sunshine. Prot. Crudeh says: "Cut up one
lemon, peel and all, into thin slices, put
it into three glassfuls of water, and boil
it down to one glassiul. Strain the liquid
through linen and set it aside to cool.
Drink the whole amount when fasting
(that is to say, on an empty stomach).
As the decOction possesses cathartic prop
critics the dose should not be repeated too
frequently, not more than once day, or
every other day, according to individual
susceptibility"
After all, the wise come back to nature
to find that she has placed all things about
right, and all we have to do is to ''accept
the situation and learn the order of her
Incompatible arrangements. Who can
suppose that she ever meant to keep man,
her Lord of Creation" out of the dense
forests, low lands and marshy seacoasts,
constituting more than one-third of all
the continents, by concealing there a
deadly enemy so subtitle as to steal upon
his yitals with the very air he breathes?
These localities and their conditions were
doubtless as necessary to the grand COM
pleXity and harmony of nature as other
localities and conditions, and the lord of
the manor has but to receive his educa-
ton before he goes forth to administer his
royal estates, or, even the veriest ass may
humiliate his lordship with a lesson his
hostler had learned before him. Mans
knowledge was not given to him like that
of the animals, all in lump. to do the
things most fitting without instruction.
On the contrary, he knows ABSOLUTELY moth
ing until instructed. But mark you!
Nature recognizes at once the GOG-llke
stature and reasOn-endowed capacity of
her lord, and not only yields him royal
food and raiment, but opens her secret
councils and throws wide her doors of
knowledge for his elevation and refine
ment. Thus he is able to discriminate in
the course of time, to inquire, to test and
prove the condition and meaning of things
I,
malaria were not created to bring about
his death any more than waters were
made to drown him; nor was his stomach
designed for an apothecary's shop because
there were mineral and vegetable king
dOms.
Nature is a mighty laboratory of knowl-
edge, leading to all good things, and he is a
student, the promising heir Of the rich
| treasures, to inherit as soon as he has
| learned to manage them with propriety.
! He may prove indiscreet and lose his life
in the pursuit, but wisdom, the child of
/ experience, admOnishes him to move with
/ caution, to pause and th;nk-in other
words, to use his talisman, his reasoning
| faculties, if he would win the prize. BY
these he will triumph over the difficulties
and harmonic the seeming incongruities.
/ By them he will understand the distribu-
tion of plants and minerals, the reason Of
their localization; and in the final perfec-
ton of his knowledge he will learn that
life and health on the earth and, cOnse-
quently, human happiness. and to reach
their maximum through his understand
ing and ability to use and administer the
productions of Nature in harmony with
his own organic structure.