The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-03-27
a FEVER CURE.
Mr.. Alex. Z. Sweet, in an Open Letter TO
vYfIiam Nye. Esq, Imparts Some Valua-
be Medical Information.
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be Medical Information.
NEW YORK CRY.
To WILLIAM NYE,
StsU at large.
In one of your recent pastoral adj
dresses to the general public, you de-
scribe with CHASTITY fidelity the suffer
ings of an unfortunate man whom you,
and some other heartless miscreants,
undertook to cure of fever by strange
and abnormal methods heretofore I'M
known to respectable practitioners.
1t seems that you were out in the
woods on pleasure party, probably
hiding from the officers of the law
Under the pretext of curing the invalid
you stood him against tree and filed
his garments with warm ashes. The
man with the fever began to perspire,
which moisture formed a chemical
combination with the ashes, and pro-
dueed what is known to commerce as
concentrated lye in liquid form. The
lye,-I don't say which one-began to
remove the cuticle of the sick man,
consequently he lifted up his voice and
Jared the geology of the eternal hills
with it.
You seem to regard the sufferings of
l.
have suffered similar outrages, will
shed a silent tear for him as soon as I
can get an off day.
What your victim suffered on the
outside ] suffered on the inside. l
was made to drink pint of tea made
Of Mexican chiltepine peppers, com
pared with which cayenne pepper tastes
ike spoonful of ice cream.
was a mere boy in San Antonio,
Tex, when chills and fever, which were
doing a large retail business in the
town, seized me and Topped me down
hard on a couch of illness. The usual
remedies were tried and acquitted, and
then a regular ordained doctor was
called on He Immediately went to
work. He did not break up the fever,
which was perpetual in session, but he
succeeded in transferring into my sys-
tenn most of the nlGteri6 n1edicG of a
drug store in which he owned a half
interest.
The more strong medicine l took the
weaker I got to be, so the doctor was
requested TO hunt up another boy.
My condition had now become very
serious, particularly to me personally.
The fever was chronic, and once every
day the chills called around and shook
me TO see If / was alive. On such &C.
bones rattle, so thin had I become.
Kind friends and neighbors drifted
In. They stood over me, looking
down on me with sad eyes and saying:
sSThis is what we all have to come to.
Death loves shining mark, y etc.
A lady who lived next door took my
hand and said she thought my pants
would fit her little boy Johnny, and
she spoke reproachfully of my holding
ont so long. She wanted to wrap up
ffle pants and takelthem with her. For
all cared she might have wrapped up
my skeleton, too, and taken it with her
for Johnny to play with. had no
idea of ever having any more use for it
myself.
Just at this crisis an old lady, named
Brown, came up from the country, and
hearing that 1 was lying in state, and
that it was free thing, came in to
tz'ke look at me.
She scoffed at the idea of my dying.
She knew of plain, simple, Mexican
remedy that would get me out of that
bed IN two weeks. Her remarks were
prophetic It got me out of bed in two
seeonds-but anticipate.
'.TH have that boy up and stealin'
peaches again in no time" she said
II. B.-She had once been a neighbor
Of ours, and owned a peach orchard.
Now" said she, ''if you viii keep
that reskelly boy alive for ten minits
81 I fix him up some chtlteptrae pepper
eeA, he will be up to some deviltry be-
fore tomorrow night"
She went into the kitchen and in a
Short time she returned with a bowl of
pepper tea which she bade me quaff. l
ouafed about a pint of it, and then l
had to use my mouth to yell. 1t was
scaldSng hot, and my throat, and all
tdeEeunto belonging, was parboiled.
She passed out of the door just in
time 20 avoid stopping the bowl and
she rest of the pepper tea with her
head. Arrayed in a long graceful
robe de 71sIit arose from my couch of
Illness and executed beautiful song
and dance movement among the
broken furniture and the weary watch
ers who oozed out through the win
doWs and left me alone with my grief.
Looking back at this little incident
through the vista of years, am still
convinced that the old lady was trying
20 get even with me for stealing her
peaches, and 1 can lay my hand on my
heart and say that she did. l am also
persuaded, Mr.. Nye, that you had a
spite at the man on whom you tried
the hot ashes experiment If you had
known about the red pepper tea, eX-
pecE you would have simultaneously
given him gallon or so of it to soothe
him internally. Yours truly,
ALEX. E. SWEET.
p. ST. recovered. A. b. 5.
-TerGs Siftt1ags.
Experimenting on Criminals.