The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-08-01

THE DOC MEAT BOLOGNA MAN
To BE INDICATED.
Remedies Of Mssy Kinds offered IN Coz
sumpsives--A Philadelphia tss-
lleses 4, hog fat-skunL's
Ofl Also Endorsed.

A queer instance OF the extreme
measures 10 which consumptivc viii
resort in order to check the ravaaes o,
the disease has Just come 10 light IL
Kensington. A man in the last stages
OF consumption. who has tried avery
known remedy. has hit upon the novel
treatment OF eating dog fat in conse-
quence OF which dogs have grown
alarmingly scarce In his immediate
neighborhood.
The treatment is decidedly novel;
and It's author claims To have derived
considerable benefit from IT, Every
week fresh dog Is killed. A large
supply is kept on hand. The dogs are
fairly gorged with food calculated TO
bring them 20 sufficient state Of
embonpoint when they are deemed 1T
10 kill. The fat Is carefully separated
from the rest OF the carcass and boiled.
The fat is then rendered and allowed
10 cool. when IL hardens. IL Is then
ready for eating. and the consumptive
devours large quantities OF IL before
each meal.
There are numerous Quack remedies
for consumption. known rs ''old
woman cures" some OF which are as
ridiculous as they are valueles. An
old colored woman living in Philadel-
phia claims that skunk oil will cure
the most advanced case OF consump-
ton. She is over 80 years old. and
tells OF some remarkable cures which
have been effected under her super
vision. with the aid OF the noxious
liquid. Her fame having spread
abroad. she was visited short time
ago by consumptive individual who
had reached that stage whore the pa
tient Is willing TO try anything. En-
tering the old woman's house his nos
trils were assailed by disagreeably
pungent odor, which increased I'm vol
ume the further he entered. He was
ushered into the old woman's presence,
and was completely FRUSTRATED by the
aroma OF the festive skunk which filed
the air. He managed to regain the
street In state OF complete exhaus-
ton. Consumption is bad enough !"
he says. but skunk oil is worse "
Another old remedy which farmers
advocate is for the patient 10 sleep in
the boudoir occupied by COW. just
what benefit is derived from this heroic
treatment is not definitely known, UNI
less IL lies in the tact that the decom-
posed manure develops an aroma con-
tanning elements OF ammonia so faint
that il can be inhaled To beneficial
advantage.
awNats,nz.fa T.. fo.nt..,
patients 20 drink the hot blood OF ami
mails just killed have been made. Pro-
lessor Bernheim. OF Paris is an advo-
cate of goats blood. claiming that II
cures tuberculosis. In recent report
TO the academy OF medicine. OF Paris,
he says that out Df fourteen cases
which he has trieo two were nj once
cured. Ten OF the remaining patients
were greatly benef.ted by tho treat
ment
A systematic cou Sc OF swinging Is
an old English remedy. dating back
into the seventeenth century, which has
probably been forgotten. In 1886
James Carmichael Srnyth. Nj. d.. +. X.
s., published quite = pretentious treat
Use setting fourth the advantages OF
swinging az cure for pulmonary con
sumption DIR. Smyth. who was at
that time practicing medicine In Lon
con, had numerous cases OF consump-
ton under his charge, he being quite
an authority on the disease. For u
long time he had advocated sea voy-
ages. claiming that the motion Of the
vessel. rather than the salt air. was
the source from which the real benefit
was derived.
Many of his patients being unable To
take sea voyages. he discovered that
swinging gave practically the same re-
suits He accordingly had large
number Of swings erected on his prem
lses and took patients 10 board. putting
them through systematic course OF
swinging. Each patient was obi ged
10 swing for hours every day. In his
book DIR. Smyth cites several cases
where patients under his charge suffer-
ing from consumption had been dis
charged thoroughly cured. In every
case he claims they we're greatly bege-
flied by the treatment