Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-02
miles of Waukesha, when he encount.

cred Allen IN the cars-aa old class
mate whom he had not met for years
and Of course they each had a
world to say, and the first topic was
health.
"Going to Waukesha?" asked
! Allen.
Yes" was the reply.
We'll" consollngly, ''isn do YOU
| no good. tried it. [ tried them all.
was in precisely your condition. And
look at me to-day-souna as a drum !
Now let me tell you-you can't cure
yourself! You've nearly gone
through the springs. There is moth
left but cid woman's notionsl SUP
pose you try them? Now let nae tell
you, Tredickar, there's a person ia the
next town-a sort of doctor-ouack,
of coarse-she's cured q good many
people-she-she-I'd just as lief tell
yeu-she cured me!"
Nonsense, Allen"
mo nonsense about it. Bald faetl
She cured me; she's cured thousands;
made comfortable fortune doing it.
She has some wonderful nostrums,
and for all [ know, a healing gift"
Natural bone-setter." Pshaw |!
How can men be such fools9" cried
our impatient doctor.
Now look here, Tredickar. Science
can't help you, that you've proved.
Why not give quackery chance: It
can't make you any worse than you
are"
"No, it can't make me any worse
than am" said the doctor, gloom
lily.
"Then you get off at Jarviston and
60 to Mrs. Taylor's and see wkat she
can do. If she can't help you she'll
say SO. II she can, you don't care
where cure comes from, as long as it
is a cure. Rather die the old-fashion-
ed way, a good allopathie death, than
live by the aid of an old woman's nos
trum, would you?"
| And the end was that DIR. Tredickar
got off at Jarviston and sought Mrs.
Taylor's presence.
It was comfortable, matronly pres
ence, he found, but ne wasted no sec
ond glance or thought upon it, while
he detailed his symptoms. and dwelt
on them, just as he had SO often been
impatient with his patients for doing.
And when he paused, she said, in
low voice:
81 think I can help you if you will
implicitly ebey my instructions for
the next three months. [ will not
undertake it without your promise. "
The doctor Thought moment, and
felt as if he was really willing to
promise anything. And he did
I'm the first place, then" said his
new advisor, II want yoa to make
particular point of your nourishment.
You are net to go without eating be
cause you have no appetite, remember.
On rising in the morning drink a glass
Of cool water, not iced. Have a good
breakfast; you know best what dis
tresses you least. No coffee or tea,
but shells, if you like. No stimulant,
no quInine, no quassin, no iron, no
stry CHINA. during the day; no bro
mides during the night. Al II o'clock
in the forenoon, I wish you to have a
raw egg beatels up with milk on one
day, on the next day alternate it with
q cup Of strong beef tea or veal tea !;
on the third day, with plain milk. At
1 o'clock you will dine plainly, but
satisfactorily. At 5 o'clock take an
other glass OF milk. Or beef tea, or egg,
which ever you did not take in the
morning, a plain but hearty supper at
six, and between supper and bedtime
another glass of milk. If you wake
III the night have some milk standing
by you TO drink, but you won't awake.
Muse OF your food should be hot. You
will take 40 other medicine than some
which I will give you. Can you re-
member al this2"
II think So"
''Please repeat it."
He was Inundated, but he did SO.
"Now to-day I want you to walk
walk! it's all I can do to drag one
foot after the other now"
II want you to walk q quarter of a
nnile and back" she SAID, not needing
his interruption, ''and do that every
day for 3 week. The next week make
it half mile; the next week whole
milo. Keep up that for three weeks,
and then every week double your por-
ton till you can do ten miles day
vita perfect ease"
81 never can in the worldp
| 10 DIS say, IL you please. B6fSr6
starting on your walk take teeid
sponge bath, and on returning from
your walk rub yourself down thor
oughly with a flannel mitlen-T will
give you one; then go to bed entirely
u2dressed for a couple of hours, and
rub yourself again on rising. Go to
bed every night at 10 o'clock and lle
IN bed 10 hou,s. You are not to open
a book or look in a newspaper for
three months"
''Impossibiep
Perfectly possible. You have no
idea how well the. world will get along
with your attention in such a case,
You are to do rything which i'm
plies rest for the body, the nerve, the
brain. You fatigue the body in order
to rest it; Wien you are able to walk
enough, take your gun with you and