The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-02

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physician made to quest on propound-
ed bya Tel gram reporter, yesterday.
81 ere are many kinds of peculiar
crazes, and some Of the methods people
take to keep free from disease, or rather
try to, are 81 Ply absurd. Take, for
ms ance, the man who goes the year
round with pair of sea-beans tied
about his neck. as q preventive to dis
ca es of contagious nature. Some
wear beans, some corn, some hor c.
c"estnuts, and still others plain piece
OF boon, all of wfich mere cases
If superstition. There are many who,
VIII n su er.ng from cold. will wrap
q wet SOCK, which they have worn dug
ing the day. about their necks, and re-
tire for the ght. theirs wear a dry
sock, and still others a piece of cloth
saturated with lamp oil. In the coun-
try it is Il standard remedy to wear n
piece If salt pork about ones neck
when su iering from a sore throat.
This, by the way, is a good remedy.
Some inhaie the smoke from burning
cherry wood, and others the smoke
from oak chips in an open fire place. as
a cure for a cold in the head and nos
trils. There are great many persons
who believe that when one gets a thor
GU h drenching with rain. or receives
we, feet, that they hould no hasten to
their homes nd put on dry clothes, but
instead should let the wet clothing d Y
upon them, as by so do NC they believe
| they will new r take cold.
1.-THE hot water cure which amounts
to craze in points in the east. whe e
no br ak asst is considered complete
without the addt on of a cup of hot wa
ter to r nse and stimulate the $ omach, ,
is the latest of long list of odd cures
1t is believed by a great many that to
take drink OF this kind before each
meal, or even a single drink on arts NJ
each morning. will cure the worst pos
Bile case of dyspepsia. Speaking of
odd cures and fashions. few of them
may be r. counted. Less than ten years
ago, Par sian physicifn of some note
p escribed for a patient suffering from
pulmonary complaint cup of fresh
calf's blooi after break asst, another at
noon, and one just before supper. The
queer RENE ~ proved eificacious. The
patient improved under it rapid y,
and finally became a well and hearty
person. A statement of the { ase was
read by the mercurial excitable and
curios ty-loving Paris ans, and started
an interest in the blood cure that in q
We y short time spread among all classes
and became a v .ritable craze. Every
person any way troubled with weak
lungs became convert. The sla lghtcr-
houses in the suburbs of Par.s were
thronged every morning with crowds
made up of all ranks, who actually
fought to pro ure blood of the dying
,imals. II ere were de icate women
and men. old and young, who
came, some in their carriages attend
ell by their servants, and some who
teebly crept along alone. The most
delica'elv organized persons and the
cOarsest were on common level, and
it appears that. the uninviting-looking
1udwa served invariably by brawny-
handed butchers. The great majority
oil thu p. ii nts manifested no repug-
nance to drinking the uid, and with a
great many taste for it was de- elop d
that ran into craving. 1t acted much
like rum on many, and even fowls were
killed by some who were unable to get
blood at the slaughter-houses. The de
mand was great. and at some places
tn. blood was sold aG high pr cei, each
slaughter house having large run of
customers, who would reach the pen
where e killing was giving on as early
as 5 a. m. Meanwh le a hot discussion
went on in medical circles over the
merits of the cure. Many celebrated
physic ans were dragged into argument,
and were taken to see cured patients.
The urden of professional opinion was
ainst cure, promo ncing it nom
sens cal and positively in uri US rather
than hcl ,ful. This era reached its
limit in a few weeks, to the grief of the
butchers, w. had reaped golden har-
vet.
1.-The mud found at certain spa
in &c many, few years ago, was
discovered suddenly to possess re-
ma kable medical propert es. 1t was
an intensely black, pasty, thick odorif-
erous mud. but thousands of persons
FASTENED rom all pa Is of Europe to
lathe in it. TO b the in it was Simply
to be buried in it for an hour or two |
and then to spend several hours in a
tub of water to get rid the re inis- |
cence. The bath is DIS ribed as being
pleasant and It's curative ELECTS in |
cases of rheumatism govt and other |
diseases, are we'll atteSted. The mud |
was analysed. a was oundto posses
a tive properties, magn tic and chemi |
cal. The mud baths have had their |
day. and are now visited by on y few |
invalids, whom the remedy
does not brighten. Similar to tue
mud bath is the sand bath of which /
joaquin Miller relates a tragic story.
A party of ex 'lorers were crossing
the sandy deserts. carrying six of their
C mrades Ill of a peculiar di ease
The sand bath was proposed to them.
They all assented and were buried in
the sand, their heals alone ing
left owe g ound. In this post on
they were left, CHI ting with each
other, the comrades having .reti ed !
for the night in tent close by, and
n the least noise was heard. In the
they were Mortified to find
t at Olives had sited the camp and
eaten off each sick mans head level
with the ground.
1.-The b ue-glass cure is too fresh in
the public mind to need more than
passing ment on. CT the thousands |
and hundreds of tho srnds of early be-
levers th.t the health-givlng and
Principles of he sunlight
mi hi be largely Increase by pass ne
rays through the glass, there are thou
sands yet remaining.
The sun-bath cure, tine fish-oil cure
fol consumption the severely simple
diet cure or all nds of ailments; the
celery cure for nervousne- 8, and many
others were the beginning more or less.
o era e. Tn best principle of each is