Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-08
ROCK AND RYE.
The Hon. Ellis b. SchnabeFs Celebrated
Prescription for Consumption.

The Hon. Ellis b. SchnabeIs 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. It 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 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. A
week may go by before it is absorbed by
the whiskey. Whenever you pass the
demijohn stop and give it 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 a cordial soothing and de-
| llghtful, as far superior to cod liver Oil
as maraschino to catnip tea.
Mr.. Schnabel's theory of the pathology
of consumption says..t 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 chrome liberation and that the rock
| and rye converts 1t into an acute lntiaan-
nation, when the alcohol ley oxy 3izing and
! the saccharine matter by building UP the
Tissues will produce a cure. Be that SIS it
| may, cases sre cited where this course of
treatment has stopped tire cough, built up
the system, and the patient has rapidly
gained flesh and become well. The ,di-
rectiens for taking the mixture are Take
a sherry wine-glassful ON going to bed
On waking in the morning take two'thirds
as a1uch on an empty stomach. Garry a
flask in your pocket, and take a spoonful
a half-dazen times a day, OF more
Your object should be to keep your stomach
continuously employed In taking up rich
and nourishing matter. Tine 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 Bain in your chest: may finally
become So enraptnred with the elixir that
you will find it difficult to drop ut when its
! use is no longer necessary FOR the preserva-
ton of your health. Now, as to your diet
whiAe feeding on this elixir. You must
avoid all Winegars, pickles, SORT wines,
malt drinks, and saltproNisions dfall kinds.
Touch fresh pork under no circumstances.
Acids and fresh pork promote alteration,
and increase the very difficulty you are
trying to care No coffee should be used,
for it fevers the blood and neutralizes the
agency of the saociaariale matter. Drink
black tea. Sat roast beef rare, 'broiled
steaks, mutton chops WISH done, toasted
bread, ana all kinds of vegetables.
One Of theoest articles aG food is rum
Gmelette, made exclusively of the yolk of
eggs. There is no nou1Ishment in the
white of an egg. The object is to enrich
the blood The blood is the great agent to
build up weak. and diiapidated constitution,
and it must be furnished with the lneces-
sary materials to reconstruct them. This
treatment ;anA,diet so enerioh 1T It'll at it
lis bound Ito WE in the nd.