The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-08-25
CHAPTER On QUACKN.
The IMMORTAL REPRESENTATIVES,
OF The HUMAN FLEA
Thriving IA the Sistesnth Csntus,-'Lo.
the f"or's" system of NssiicineSNsar'-
Million Recorded I'rsplTati0no.Ws2-
dering Into N.W Fields.

The homo Amsrirauus ENJOYS tAsTae7as-
SION 81 mtny parasites. Like his faithful
conianlpn, the Il :, aIli his L1tItIlall fri,ul,
the eat, b" Is r1sIllrly attacked anal IIIIIc-
turei iy IN" rry ia At tins, H.. l-,ti
ctiluS humans drop, from unknown Lntla.s
AMI makes llle IA burden. The TICK, tuGra
sllata, hla'k iiy, ciinex AMI hr-hu ryt>ion-
ally 10 tn ir h ~ 10 dcIblta him # IL lll i.
ami 10 transform hi existence into N n, tull
nightmare. In r,>l.st g. th,>c lrt>.ct Is>,S
man Is on a l.yel with the brute crtatiun.
10th Ia am! they are attark ,I alike, sui. r
alike ami alike employ the IN ans t. nj
themselves If disagrteaLln intlmat.a Hut
even a. To- parasites man rises tar above thu
animal Just as he speaks whil,' lis brute
frlatIH,S nrc silent, Just as he drops into
verse wlllc his siniian cousins contest th,m-
s"lr'S with yuwls ami huwis JuA II, r.
cooks while thu r,t IT creation eat, hi, H., I,
raw ~ man has discovered AMI ,levtlaI@.
the Iuack-a parasite unknown Ia al other
animals, The natural history Of tho Qulck i,
long ami interesting Like TN tap worm
AMI Other bow types # life h. ;.,,un,s dit
f'rent forms at different l+ri,-I, Anon. Ia
dams h. l. known II, /, medicine nittl, ttmnus
n"srrS ~ II N,"-lou Y an obi: anon. Italian,
II, IA J"ttatur>t, among Americans H. tho
"h"t -- -, manufacturer ~ the
tioEltn Salvr of Immortality" etc.
TIE QuACK Is IMMORTAL
Though quarks lie, the Iuack i, Immortal.
ohi books show him To- have thriyei in the
Sixteenth century, when, for ,lrubloon, h.
dispensed healing balm composed If monkey
fat, tn" hair If II black dog, white Hnc AMI
Rosemary. The cheerful preparation d-
scrit~l 10y Shakespeare, in the witch s,nc If
Macbeth Is alo~l satire upon the quirlrry
Of that lsriI In the Eighteenth century
the quack took advantage of the Indian wars
Of this country, to rush into the "rp,t amt
yarb' business. Indian doctors, IrlIay.
remedies ami Indian panaccas spr,ut,,l cut
all over America and Eurolr. Happily for
humanity but httl" harm Was dome -l.o, the
poor has simple system Of nc'lirinA When
cut or bruised, he ch,ws up the first leasr, ho
can find into green pulp and ,lalrS TIN,
upon II wound. When bilious or frveri,h h.
chews AMI swallows leaves until b. runs
across something with drastic tcnlclri,s amt
cures tho disease from which lc suC.r, 10y
substituting dy,entery or collie
From $50 to lss0, the quark dill tushrss
upon the patent medicine baNi, an that
period no less than 81 NtD RECORDED prrpara-
tIons have nrn put upon the ma krts of
EuroIr AMI America. uf th,r,', ~ pr cent
have brought wealth to their makers ami
| per cent. have produced fortunes Strange
to say, most Of these are made hv nithvr
physicians nor chemists, hut l.y b,l,llh,, men
with little or no knowledge Of nru me ~
science. Onc New York manufacture, who
probably IL representatives of thu ti,lr az
large, produces n cough remedy, hinngc, I
cholngngI", IA s,'latisc AMI n,rvIns, all ~
which contain powerful or poisonous drugs
lie himself reads and writes, but cannot keep
his own books nor read the formal =, on
which his goods ARE madr.
WANDERING, INTp NEW IIEfua