Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-01-03

applied to the throat very soon check.
ed and modified the symptoms as to
render the disease easily tractable and
her convalescence was rapid and steady.
Of course | used other remedies, but
they were only such as has failed in
many less marked cases than hers. l
believe that her recovery is mainly at
tributed to the tobacco. Still another
case is that of my neighbor, Mr.. N.
B. Westall, who had violent attack
of diptheria.
i & x =
Mr.. Bristol, the gentleman who has
charge of the office in this hotel (the
Eagle, had for at least dozen years
at intervals, been sufferer from at
tacks of pain in the side and indiges.
ton, attributed to torpidity of the liver.
Recently one of those attacks came on,
and he applied tobacco to the seat of
the pain, the region Of the liver, and
single nights application took away
all the pain. He has had no return of
the pain since and his digestion is good.
He was also suffering lately much pain
from a contraction of the sinews and
muscles under his knee, but an appli.
cation of tobacco for one night removed
the pain. He could straighten his leg
and walk as usual, seeming entirely
well. He vows that no consideration
would induce him to, give up tobacco.
A gentleman who brought his wife
to this region for cure of consumption,
says as she was lately suffering from
pain in the side he applied tobacco and
next day the pain was relieved and she
felt better.
A lady not far from this place,
whose husband has been a member of
our legislature, suffered from what is
called milk leg, Her hip, thigh, and
leg were much swollen. After weeks
of suffering the physicians pronounced
it case of py@mia or blood poisoning.
Her husband caused tobacco to be APP
piled, and he stated to two gentlemen
who informed me that he regarded her
as well. Cases of what is properly
known as fever cake of long standing
have been removed at once by tobacco.
Persons have told me that cases Of
cancer have also been cured, but the
sores may possibly not have been really
cancers. / found, however, a case
which the two physicians who have
practiced longest in this town and are
gentlemen of the highest standing have
pronounced cancer. The patient, Mr..
John Ledford, has borne it several
years on the side of his nose. | saw
him and observed a white scab and
swelling, with redness around it, which
extended to the eye and cheek. adj
vised him to try tobacco on it, saw
him after weeks trial. The infam'
nation around the scab had disappear
ed and the scab seemed smaller. When
/ last saw him the scab was smaller
and seemed to fall off and the sore tC
: disappear.
; Sores inside the nose, attributed tC
catarrhal irritation, and of long stand
ing, have been entirely cured by put
ting into the nostrils plug of wet to-
> bacco and keeping it there for few
7 hours at time.
7 | close with a reference to cattl
: cases. In every instance in this region
: where tobacco in milk has been givel
r to hogs suffering from cholera cur
g has been the result. Even where tn
e hog was unable TO stand drenchinI
j with tobacco juice, it cured him. Mill
e sickness among the cattle is cured b.
: tobacco.
: Mr.. Preston F. Patton, large far
s mer in this county, informs me c
J other remarkable cures. In the sprin
d of the year many of his COWS die
o from some poisonous plant which cam
up on his plantation. He says tha
d during last May at least twenty-five
It them fell down and would have dice
h but that he drenched them with aboI
1t pint of tobacco juice, and in less tina
d half an hour every one of them arO'
d and recovered.