Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-03-10
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Samuel Mclfrezor. = farmer residing In
the northern part of 81 Clair County,
Illinois, near ne Monroe C0uaty line,
yesterday related - reporter his re-
alarkabse cure 81 Bright's disease de
hsd been a robust aud healthy man m
tii about Two years ago, when he began
- sscllne IA health, and, thoagn be con-
suited the ply siclans about his locality
they eOald afford him No relief, aud he
eontinaed - become more sickiy and
faebie. tie came % the conclusion IN AZ he
Was victim Of consumption, bat he re-
solved 20 fght II with the best medical
skill be could procure. and for THU pur-
pose had consulted and been dOetOred BY
the most eminent physicians in ST. Louis
and Chicago, bat 20 40 avail. he had
By this time expended nearly all the
property hs was worth in doctors fees,
patent medicines OF all kinds, and nurses
bills, and yet be was steadily approaching
thu grave. As last resort he visited
a physician who periodically visits
st. Louis and had his case by him
diagnosed. and this physician declared
that he was afflicted with Brights dis
ease and that IL had progressed SO far that
there was no chance OF curing or even
checking il, ant be returned to his home q
most detected human with no hope but
speedy rest IN the grave. While brooding
over his supposed inevitable fate one day
an old German woman happened along
and in the conversation MeGreger related
10 her that the doctors had all given him
up for death from Bright's disease. With
the announcement that he had Bright's
disease the old German woman's eyes as
sumed a great brilliarcy, and she most
earnestly declared that there was no need
Of his dying at all with that disease, no
natter what the doctors had said to the
contrary. She knew of remedy that had
cured people suffering from that COM
plant, and that il was using dog meat for
food. She insisted that he must commence
feeding on canine flesh and she would
guarantee his complete recovery or she
would die in his stead. The idea of eating
dog meat was most nauseating TO Nc
GresOr, but, like drowning man grasping
at a straw, he resolved TO commence diet
ing on dog flesh as last resort, and par
ticularly inasmuch as the old woman was
50 sanguine of its efficacy and so persistent
that be should follow her advice. Nc
Gregor's trouble, in addition TO his sick
ness, was TO get the dogs whereon 10 feed.
But he related his wants TO young friend,
who agreed TO produce the dogs as they
were wanted, for so much head. The first
canine brough to the slaughter was large
and noble Newfoundland, which was prop
erly dressed, and McGregor entered upon
his canine ct. Horrible the idea was to
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tasted of the dish as il had been broile d by
his wife the nauseousness previously en-
tertained precipitately vanished, and
when he had finished his first dog meat
east be pronounced it the most delicious
and palatable food be had ever par
taken of, and therefore he could
scarcely get dog meat enough. Dog
after dog was corraled throughout the
neighborhood and led to the altar of
/ Bright's disease. The youngest dogs were
selected IL possible, but once In a while a
/ tough old stager was run across, and then
/ McGregor's dish was not quite so RELISH
( able as il might be; but even then he pre-
/ ferred it to veal, lamb or frogs. He kept
I on eating dogs, and from the very first in
I Judgement he commenced to improve and
rapidly became a well man, and to-day is
I just robust, strong and healthy as he
ever had been, and his good fortune he
ascribes 70 the old German woman and the
martyred dogs, after he had been pro-
nounced incurable by the best of physi-
clans and was already with one foot in the
grave. He had become so infatuated with
dog meat that he could scarcely give up
eating it, but the furor that had been
produced in the locality among the
people who were missing their dogs
and the threats made ag.inst the
party, If discovered, who was taking
them warned him that he must
call halt on subsisting on canine meat,
lest ne, being saved from death from
Bright's disease, might experience vio-
lent and bloody death at the hands of the
owners of the CANNES. In all be ate fif-
teen dogs, and, though tue owners OF all
greatly bemosned their mysterious loss,
the most affecting case was that of young
lady who was thus bereft of her poodle,
and whose grief became so great over the
loss that she had TO be taken on an ex-
tcnsive travelling expedition TO prevent her
grieving herself 20 death or carrying out a
threat 20 retire permanently from the
world. II she ever learns that McGregor
ate her poodle she would doubtless 20 in
sane. But McGregor is cured of Bright:
disease. Ia intensely fond Of dog meat
and would be valuable resident in a To-
caIity in which sheep killing dogs abound,
for there be would be permitted 70 appeass
his new found appetite