Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-03
CURING A CANCER.
How Faith Doctor Did Some Good
After All.
From TIE 4Amsric,ss 'Ga,) Recorder


From the 4 mericuS Ga ) Recorder.
Several weeks ago faith doctress Wis.,
tied Americus, and in an incredibly short
time had caused a great commotiOn
among the sick, the lame and the sickly
croakers. One by one they visited her
and after the laying on OF hands and the
swapping OF fingers aud the contortions
which accompany the removing of dis
ease by faith, and the exchange of divers
dollars and bills between the patient and
the phys ician, they would depart sadder
and wiser-and with the same old COM
plant none the less lessened. And his
tory has it that the diseases are still
there. But to our narrative.
Among those who visited the doctress
and who received of her wisdom was Mr..
Patrick Brady, an old and we'll known
citizen of this place. For many years
some twenty-five or thirty, we believe
MIR, Brady has been afflicted with a can
Ger on has right eye. For five or six wears
past he has been deprived Of the sight in
that eye. AS drowning men are said to
catch at straws, Mr.. Brady could see no
harm in tryingif the doctors faith would
remove his cancer; so he called.
The usual manifestations were gone
through with. The doctress told him his
cancer could be removed. and il he had
faith in sufficient abundance he would
soon ag2iH7be able 10 zee the iniqulties of
this wnrid+-the virtues would require
better visfon.1 But he must do as she
said. Would he? Most certainly. What
would a man not do to remove blndness7
And this is what she told him:
'Go and gather the ends OF cigars
(stumps, they are called and boil them
until all their strength is gone. Take the
liquid, and with proper proportion
of flour make a pOultice for your eye. APP
ply to the cancer on cloth, and change
every evening. For each poultice you
must have just two ounces OF cigar
stumps."
Mir. Brady heard and departed. He de-
termned to try the experiment, and be-
gan what has proved to be a daily round
for the much despised stump. AS no one
knew OF his experiment. people who knew
him, and even people who did not, were
amazed to see him day after day search
ing sidewalks and cutters for cigar
stumps. To those who questioned him
politely, he would tell his story, to others
he paid no heed. To Recorder man one
day he told the above story.
"Every afternOOn,N said he, ''like to-
day, l take my rounds around the town.
You would be astOnished if you knew how
many stumps it takes to make two ounces.
1t takes heap, and sometimes my search
is long and weary,
"Why will not tobacco or cigars do?"
at has not got the strength or the nico-
Tine" was the answer. las smokers
know, cigars get stronger as they are
smoked up. II they are allowed to 90 out
occasionally they are still stronger. As
the fire consumes the cigar the nicotine
lodges in the end. When the stumps are
boiled in water the liquid it makes is
many times stronger than tobacco or Gil
gars would make; consequently it is more
effective"
"Has the poulticing done you any
goQd|
"Yes, sir. Since have been using it
get good rest at night, and it has so
helped me that | can family distinguish
objects out OF that eye, when | have been
blind for several years. | intend to keep
it up, and eventually think it will cure
the cancer"
Mr.. Brady is small, lightly built man,
quite old, and walks with a cane and linen
buster. He is a well-read man, pleasant
in conversation, and determined enough
to perseVere in his undertaking. He Gays
the dull times makes the gathering of
stumps harder for him, as they are shorter
and scarcer. He can always tell stump
which has been in the hands of a drunken
man, as it is long and the end is chewed
up. 1t is interesting to hear him explain
where the various stumps come from, and
their different qualities.
SO the faith doctress has done some
good, after all