Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-12-03
A CHAPTER ON SMALLPOX.
Not Nearly so Fatal as Supposed
PreYentives-TFeatment

Those most experienced in small
pox say that if people would only
use their memories and reflect a
little, that disease is nothing like SC
fatal as scarlet fever or typhoid
fever. If family will cease using
all grease, meat, salt, and the like
and partake freely of lemons,
oranges aud apples the smallpox
will pass through them as gently as
chickenpox. But it Stays right and
left the meat eaters and liquor
drinkers-and especially those who
use little acid fruits and are of con-
stipated habits.
There are hundreds on hundreds
of well authenticated c5~25 whe-e
smallpox has visiteL ,,wns and
ravaged every family but few ard
on inquiry it has been proved that
those exempted have e., :
prepared themselves by diet. On
its last iatai visit 10 st. Jo.eph, Mo-,
two men, loaing on the station
platform, told the writer this: One
said the smallpox came to their
home when he was bov and de-
stroyed the whole family-he being
off somewhere on a visit. The
family WIS living GlnoJt en-, 2'y on
DO X apd cOrl bread and had Oecn
for ye7 s. The other man said tIat
it visited h is fAthe''s emily o. some
niue children and it "never amounV-
ed TO anything''-none of them were
sick "to call sick with it." 1t was
smallpox, because the people died
all around them with it and it was
the same disease. How do you ac-
count for your safety? was asked.
"Why, you see, my father was a
man of queer notions and he would
not allow any OF us TO eat any kind
ofmoa4. He was a veSe' "a and
when the d',e2ce came ne was
mi%h5y careful Whit he let us
children eai." AS both these men
were laborers and rather illiterate
and there was no collusion and no
suggestion it made strong inn
preston.
A miraculous escape from death
was that of DIR. Moore of IrOnton,
Ohio, who was thrown into a pest
house, while i'll with smallpox in its
worst form, and was there left alone,
summed by every soul. He woke
up, dying of thirst and feTer-howl-
ing for water, his wildly flingiOg
arms stuck a shel: overhead and
knocked down a paper package Of
lemons, on which he greedily
siezed and consumed half dozen,
so blessedly relieved he sank into a
delicious doze and semi-trance for
hours. Waking, he once more re-
sorted to the lemons and again fell
asleep; having observed that his
face was all broken out into almost
continent scabs when he first awOke,
on this second awakening he, being
a most skilful practitioner in that
very disease, w's aS,onished to seq
how the sores hal dried up, and
few hours laier they we"e miracu-
lously droppil3 OF. In all his life
never had he he d, in all his great
smallpox pace never he'd he
witnessed, such IA speedy, even
milacte-iike eud.lg. AS he had
lived ON notHipg but lemons there
atone, and had for several days just
before no appeita, he ascribed it to
them. Up soon and practicing
right in the midst of the disease he
made crucial test of his theory
with the same success in every case
hundreds Of cases too. Owing to
lie habits some clse3 were harder
than Otbers. He then published il.
Many years later when the small
pox was exciting the couutTy DIR.
Moore was written TO by one who
knew the circumstances of
his marvellous recovery and asked
if his faith in lemons continued the
same. His reply was that il did
and that he continued to prescribe
the fN,e use Of lemons in treatment
of smallpox with great success.
/ haven't the courage to die sir,
Hardly the cOurlCe TO live: