Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-05-02
TO be continued.)
ROCK AND RYE.
The Hon. Ellis B. SchnabeI's Celebrated
Prescription for Consumption.


The celebrated prescription of rock and
rye, or white rock candy and rye whisky
seems to have origanted with the Hon.
Ellis B. Schnabel member of congress
from Pennsylvania, and was first published
in the New York Sun several years ago.
Mr. Schnabel claimed that he himself had
been In the last stages of consumption
and had been cured by this remedy. 1t is
made as follows: take five pounds of pure
white rock candy and dissolve in "a gallon
of old rye whisky-the older the better.
The whisky must be distilled in the old
fashioned way, with a copper worm. Al
ways get the pure white rock candy. The
clear white rock is pure crystalized sugar
and saccharine matter. you know, is the
most nourishing OF all substances. Put
your FIVE pounds of white rock candy into
a gallon of whisky and set it on your table.
Let it remain until the candy dissolves. 4
week may go by before it Is absorbed by
the whiskey. Whenever you pass the
demijohn stop and give ii Il good shaking,
and have your wife and daughter or the
servants do the same. In this way it will
sooner dissolve, and you will find yourself
the owner of cordial soothing and de-
hghtful, as far superior to cod liver oil
as maraschino to catnip tea.
Mr.. Schnabels theory of the pathology
of consumption, says.the American Analyst,
is peculiar and not worth entering into.
1t will suffice to say that he claims that
the condition of the lungs is similar to
| that of chronic liberation and that the rock
and rye converts it into an acute infiam-
nation, when the alconol by oxydizing and
the saccharine matter by building up the
| tissues will produce cure. Be that as it
| NAV. cases are cited where this course of
| treatment has stopped the cough, built up
| the system, and the patient has rapidly
| gained flesh and become well. The .dl-
rections for taking the mixture are: Take
a sherry wine-glassful on going to bed.
| On waking in the morning take twO-thIrdS
as much on an empty stomach. Carry
| flask in your pocket, and take spoonful
| a half-dozen times a day, or more.
| Your object should be to keep your stomach
continuously employed in taking up rich
| and nourishing matter. The cordial will
| check cold night sweats. and the patient
| will secure long and refreshing sleep. All
| lung fever will disappear. You will feel
no more pain in your chest: may finally
become So enraptnred with the elixir that
you will find it difficult to drop it when its
use is no longer necessary for the preserva-
| ton of your health. Now, as to your diet
while feeding on this elixir You must
avoid all vinegars, pickles, sour wines,
malt drinks, and salt provisions ofall kinds.
Touch fresh pork under no circumstances.
Acids and fresh pork promote liberation,
and increase the very difficulty you are
trying to cure. No coffee should be used,
for it fevers the blood aud neutralizes the
| agency of the saccharine matter. Drink
black tea Eat roast beef rare, broiled
steaks, mutton chops well done, toasted
bread, and all kinds of vegetables.
One of the best articles of food is rum
omeIette, made exclusively of the yOlk of
eggs. There is no nourishment in the
white of an egg. The object is to enrich
the blood The blood is the great agent to
build up weak and dilapidated constitution,
and it must be furnished with the neces-
sary materials to reconstruct them. This
treatment and diet so ener iches it that it
| is bound to win in the nd