The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-08-05
ARSENIC AS. A MEDICINE.
ELEANOR KiRK,S LETTER.

7S8 Lafayette-ave. Brooklyn. June %. 1889.
Among the questions Just received Is the follow
strongly against arsenic in face and scaIp lotions
the lady writes, "that am anxious to know what
you think Of 1t as medicine in the hands Of a
Arsenic is no doubt very valuable remedy in
exceptional cases, as Is also strychnine, and
have no call to crticse the work Of a scientific
PHYSICIAN" but have seen more mischief result
from the use of arsenic than could tell If wrote
week. Does 1t stand to reason that the use OF
such deadly drugs can be salutary? have case
In mind now, yea, verify, case right under my
eyes and very dear to my heart, which is certainly
cose In point, and will answer my correspond
that rested not by night or day. the most profsise
and alarming expectoration, and general break
ing down Of The whole system-certainly condi-
clans had been tried In vain. But JOB had his adj
yisers go and see my DOCTOR" they said. "He
Is h.,,s specialist in pulmonary troubles. and will
himself to the last one recommended, and re-
turned with four prescriptions, one containing ar
senic, a ana one stryehnne besides various other
ever walked on four legs. The frst result was
Just what knew it would be-the inability Of the
hope, for If the poor, weak body could not be
nourished, IL there could be no slight opposition
made to the rapid decay Of the tissues the outlook
consumer Of these poisons realized his danger and
threw the deadly stuff away. Now, physicians
had utterly failed to benefit this case, and nv adj
up, If possible, on good nourishing food. Circum-
stances had made me daily visitor at one OF our
finest hospitals for some months. and the contrast
between the treatment Of majority Of these pa
tients and the patients Of private physicians was
most remarkable. l had seen patients brought
from the operating rooms after most serious work,
drop OF Observation-Disclosures Liquid Food was
administered with common diet three or four
times day. This Is an extract Of beef, mutton
and fruits, containing blood corpuscles, soluble
albumen, and is perfectly free from drugs, miner
ais, acids and salts. Do not forget that In the
most OF these cases no medicine was given. It
may have been an illogical and an unjust infer
ence, but could not help the thought that these
hospital patients must be got rid Of to make room
cine would retard their recovery, they were given
no medicine, but were Just simply and naturally
nursed back to health. do, however, sincerely
everything else had been tried, and the patient
was about so far on the down grade az 1t was pas
sible for him to 60 without a funeral, suggested
the hospital Treatment May &C. and i was adopt
In less than two weeks there was q decided
change In the condition and appearance of the pa
gain continued, with now and then a Slight re re-
lapse.of course o system reduced to such ex-
tremities conld not be expected to rally without
an occasional pfotestEbut that was not discour-
weight. then l knew that common sense had
triumphed. Now, knew from my hospital ex-
perlehh,ce ana TINS remarkable experience Of one
Food win build up the tissue, enrich the blood
and strengthen the muscles and nerves. AS
called r,but its use is altogether toocommon, Mef,
and women take medicine because they are too
lazy or too Ignorant to take proper food. When
Of the patient lose their heads and forget that
drugs will not answer for food, and that the pu-
ELEANOR KIRK.
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