The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-18
QACKs IN oLDEN TIMES.
Some Astounding Remedies Pre-
scribed by English Healers.

| Some Astounding Remedies Pre-
scribed by English Healers.
From the Poll Mall Gazette.
Here is how Harvey's tutor explains his
treatment of tumor in truly fascinating
terms.
'If it the tumor) be movable one cut
| it away with a red-hot iron that sears as ii
cuts, but if it be adherent to the chest / cut
| it, without bleeding, with a wooden or horn
knife, soaked in aquafortis, with which
having cut the skin dig out the rest with
my fingers"
This Is the great surgeon of the end of the
sixteenth century. Now as to the great
physician of about the same period. DIR.
Caius, founder of the Cambridge college
which bears his name, wrote thus of the
medical properties of a W ell-known lapdog,
which he calls Spaniel Gentie":
These little dogs are good to assuage the
sickness of the stomach, being oftentimes
| thereunto applied as a plaster preventative,
| or borne in the bosom of the diseased and
weak person, which effect is performed
| by their moderate heat Moreover, the dis
ease and sickness changeth his place and
entereth-though it be not precisely marked
into the dog. which, to be no untruth, ex-
perience can testify. For this kind of dogs
sometimes fall sick, and sometimes die,
| without any harm outwardly enforced. A
gentleman or gentlewoman or owner what
soever entereth into the dog by the opera
| ton of heat interrningled and affected.
Next comes the eighteenth century with
"a well established system of copious and
everlasting bleeding "Impartiality" was
| the maxim, regardless of the diet, the mode
| of living, the temperament or the consti-
tuition Of the patient. Stout and lean, long
and short, sound or cripple-all Jared alike
the universal cry was Come and be
| blooded." In connection with this mania
Mr. Everitt qotes capital story:
| "a French physician, named Bernard
one day found an old able, a stranger to
him, playing at cards with one of his
patients. He had no sooner sedA him than
he exclaimed, with much vehemence:
what do you here's Go home, get bled
Immediately. You have not one minute to
| losem The able remained mOtionlesS in
great alarm. He was conveyed home. NJ.
Bernard bled him in the usual unstinting
fashion three or four times. drenched him,
| of course with drastic drugs, but found
| him not one whit the better On
the third day, everything having been
done that medical science could devise
and everything having failed, the sick
mans brother was sent for from the coun-
try. He arrived in haste and was informed
| that the able was dying. "Of what dis
eases" he inquired. NJ. Bernard assured
him that, without being at all aware of it,
his brother had been seized with a violent
fit of apoplexy; that be had fortunately dis
covered it by seeing his mouth awry, and
had treated him accordingly. "Why, sir"
quietly replied the martyrs brother, his
mouth has been awry these sixty years.
As an excellent cure for govt" great
medical man of the seventeenth century
gives the following advice:
Take young puppy-an one color if
you can get such one-and cut him in
two pieces through the back alive, and lay
one side hot to the grieved place-the inner
side, meap."
And this is what the same learned
authority prescribes for 'squinancy." or
quinsey:
Take silk thread dipped in the blood
of a mouse and let the the party swallow it
down that is troubled with the squinancy
pain, or swelling in the throat, and it will
cure him.
For swelllngs he has this remedy:
MARK where heswine rubs himself, then
cut off piece of the wood and rub any
swollen place with it, and it will help it.,
with this proviso, that where the hog rubs
his head it helps the swelling of the head
and where the neck those of the neck, etc.
If you cannot apply part of the thing the
hog rubbed against to the grieved place,
you must apply the grieved place to that"