The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-01
THE DANISH CURE
AND THE LADY WHO INTRODUCED
1T INTO THIS COUNTRY.
How Foreign Lady of the Nobility Made
= Career for Herself In New York
Madame schott and Her Manipulation
of Muscles,
Iepeesal Correspondence.l

q Career for Herself In New Horks
Madame schott and Her Manipulation
of Muscles.
Ispecial Correspondence
New YORK, SsA-- @c.--This city Is famous
as place for the development Of talent
not simply the talent that takes to the beaten
track, but unheard Of talent New York
furnishes field Of activity for every gift
under the sun, If the possessor do but know
how to reach the market l have noticed
this more In the case Of women than men.
The latter have the entire range Of profess
sional industrial and commercial pursuits
to turn to for a livelihood; but women have
only few avenues open, paved by precedent.
This makes it awkward for the uninspired,
but furnishes fine chance to the inventive
to turn some peculiar gift, taste or acquire
ment TO practical account
And they do turn these things to account
l could name nearly dozen women who
earn honest and often enviable incomes by
means never before adopted by man or
woman These are the starters Of new in
dustries, for what one woman does success
fully others will initiate and SO every new
thing becomes In time recognized profess
sion, business or industry-one OF the
things that impoverished womsn turn over
in their minds in perp,exity and fear when
they face the greatest of all problems, what
shall do to be saved from want"
One day, when in house of a friend,
handsome carriage, drawn by two spirited
ponies and engineered by the most dlgnified
of coachmen, stopped before the door,
Cob
know you viii be interested in her."
Then, in response to my look Of inquiry,
the lady went on to explain that Mime.
Schott was a wonderful woman; that she
was a practicing physician. who did great
things without medicine; that she had in
troduced the Danish cure" into this coun-
try, and by means of it made herself rich,
honored, and somewhat famous Eyes" she
continued, "and she possesses the faculty
that all the schools haven't been able to ac-
quire-the faculty of rejuyenating her pa
TENTS Withal, she is an interesting char
aeter and pleasing lady"
few minutes later lady entered the
parlor with a springy step and carriage
that was poetry itself Her motions were
quick and graceful, like those Of a delicate
bird, vet by no means undignified She had
the grace and cheeriness Of youth, face
that, although not lineless, had no look OF
age about it, and form like a girl OF 20
She was Nine. Schott. She began to chat
in a voice as bird-like as her movements,
ard so deliciously Danish in accent that l
could only understand a word here and
there.
Later became well acquainted with her
and learned her history, & brief sketch or
which / give that it may encourage other
women to seek within themselves for some
thing they can turn to substantial account
when a vocation is needed.
Mime. Schott, whose Christian name Is
Wilhelmine, is the daughter of Danish pa
rents of the highest nobility Of Denmark.
She early gave evidence Of the self-sufhciens
spirit which has won her an honorable place
in life by objecting to certain matrimonial
plans which had been formed for her by
those in authority. Determined to be some
thing on her own account, she left her home
and went to her uncle in Copenhagen, DR.
Emile Fresch. who was physician to King
Christian VIII He presented her TO the
king and queen, who were so much interested
In her beauty and spirit that they offered to
be father and mother to her.
Having always a special fondne for the
study of the mech anism of the human body,
and a natural desire to cure diseases she
devoted herself to the thorough study of
anatomy and physiology, while other young
ladies OF her rank amused themselves with
social pleasures. Under her uncles tuition
she learned the practical duties OF a pbysi
clan, with no very strong hope Of ever turn
ing her knowledge to account There, while
visiting an institution for the treatment Of
the sick, she first saw the Danish cure"
practis d. She was strongly impressed by its
workings and, eager TO become practitioner,
was instructed in this science of nanipula-
tiarl which has heeD. an important branch of
medical science in Germany anu DeIIIl1euIn
since the Fifteenth century. In Denmark
the study of anatomy IS taught, not as here,
In the dissecting room alone After the
usual course of study the student enters a
department devoted entirely to studying the
action of the mechanical parts in living sub
tets A practitioner Of the Danish cure
must be able to detect instantly upon ex-
animation by the hands alone, displaee-
ment, contraction or abnormal condition of
any muscle or cord in the body
Meeting an American lady and hearing
much of The beautiful new land across the
sea, soon after finishing her study of the
s'Danish cure, Nine Schott was stricken
with the American fever, that insidious
disease which year by year penetrates |
farther into the hills and mountains of Dem
mark, Sweden and Norway and carries
away the young AMI strong leaving he |
parents desolate So to America she came |
With her new friend, thirty-two years ago
and here in the land of which she had long
thought and dreamed She has lived the most /
useful part of her life
All her plans of finding a vocation were
diss pated soon after her arrival by ths
Inevitable experience of falling in love and
m rrying. Her husband, now decease T.
had been an editor in Copenhagen. Ia 184s
he became a political exile He came
TO this country with much money and
was robbed by friend. When he died
Mime. Schott found herself thrown on her
own resources Wonanlike she took to
not realizing that her medical
were a valuable capital 10
operate with. One day, at the house of a
friend. she saw little boy afflicted with
spinal disease, who was so lame he couldn
walk. Pityingly she took him in her arms
and rubbed bis back Every time he saw
her afterwards he begged to be taken up and
rubbed. After each manipulation he was
much better His mother begged Nine
Schott to come daily and rub him. This
he d. and cured him without drop medi.
clne, though She refused to take any pay rol
i. This incident seemed to be the be inning
If curative career for her in spite OF her.
elf Ailing women begged her to manipu.
ate them, and her @Danish cure' became
famous before she had really determined to
practice it.
A prom nent physician, who had many So
.alled incnFable patients with spinal disease,
ent them to her in the belief that size could
It least alleviate their sufferings This she
Ii |, with her warm, magnetic hands, which :
sought out the disused and shriv- .
led muscles, and rubbed hem into action ,
gain, and in many instances she effected !
erfect cure a..
From that time TIL now she has been con.
family busy. Her patients are women and !
hildren only. and of Che upper class exclu. :
lvely Indeed, her treatment is a luxury :
nat the poor cannot aspire to- Each treat
tent of an hours duration is booked at 81:
ny longer time is charged accordingly. A !.
isit and treatment at a rat ent's house is j
TO- These prices ara cheerfully raid by Q
fme. Schott's patients. who esteem it a
rivilege to be received by her at ali, since I
n account of her popularity. a chance to be
'eated is difficult to obtain. ?
Many time she works over patients from
Nfnlra IN