The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
TO RELIEVE GRIP SUFFERERS.
A Pittsburg Physician Claims to Have
Had Success with Electricity.


Had Success with Electricity.
PlttsburR Dispatch
DR.. Gentry, of this city, who is firm be-
lever in the curative qualities of electricity,
for the past few days has been investigating
its action on the grip One of his patients said
yesterday afternoon that it is positively the
only thing that has in the least affected his
case, and after good strong dose of it he felt
prepared to get out of bed and defy the
weather-but on the doctors advice he stayed
in the house.
The manner of treatment is to connect
the battery to each side of the head at the
base of the brain, and then turn on as much as
the patient can stand The cure, for the in
stant, is if anything worse than the disease,
but after the treatment is discontinued the
patient feels greatly strengthened. The idea
is that as the grip works on the nervous
system it is best to build it up again.
Some doctors are alleged to have spoken of
an electric battery as 'quack machine,' as
it only temporarily stimulates the patient and
deceives him with the idea that he has been
greatly benefited or permanently cured. 1t is
declared that there can be no permanent bene-
fits derived from its use ana that in the end it
is more harmful than good. DIR. Gentry is
experimenting on his idea very quietly and
few know what success he has attained.
EVERYBODY HAS CURE.
The Dispatch has received numerous letters
from people in all parts of the United States,
and even from Canada, giving cures that are
warranted to cure the grip and all kindred
diseases in that order, and the peculiar part is
that some of the prescriptions and directions
are precisely opposite. Among the letters re-
ceived was one from DR.. L. III. Eddowes, of
Chattanooga, who gives a prescription which
he says has cured every case he has had in
America, as well as all cases in which it was
used by himself and his father in England.
He says he has used the cure in hundreds of
cases.
DIR. Eddowes's prescription reads a. follows:
Two drachms muriate ammonia, II drachms
tincture aconite root, 1 drachm tincture fox
glove, 5 drachms sweet spirits nitre, ounce
aromatic syrup rhubarb, water enough to make
four ounces. This is to be taken two tea
spoonfuls every four hours. Also, take Dover
powder, grains and mercury with chalk, 3
grains, make into one powder and take one of
these each night and morning. Stimulants
must be taken at all times In the shape of beef
tea, brandy. eggs, milk, and bread day or
two old.
This DR.. Eddowes recommends as perfect
cure, and submits it for the benefit of the
suffering humanity in general and the poorer
classes in particular.
Radically different is the treatment offered
| by l.. Unser, Toronto, Canada, who says in
| stead of stlmulants one should ''adopt a
| purely vegetable diet and avoid chicken broth,
| beef tea, milk, cream and in fact all stimu-
| lants." The only particular in which this
| treatment agrees with that of DR.. Eddowes's
| is that all the pure air possible should be in
| hailed by the patient. This brings up the
| question as to where pure air can be found in
| Pittsburg since the atmosphere is impregnated
with the germs of the disease. Mr.. Unser ad-
| vises the eating of one meal day, and that at
| IL O'clock A. NJ. He advises the starving out
| OF the disease as the quickest way to get rid of
| it. He is firm disciple OF the vegetable diet
| and no-medicine idea, and enters into long
| discussion as to the effect that medicine has on
the human system. He declares that If less
| medicine were used people would live longer.
In conclusion he says: ''By all means eat
| moderately and food consisting mostly OF
| wholesome unboted meal, made lDto bread or
| cruel, and do not eat after o'clock Z. M.
Bathe the body well, retire early us you can
not make up for it the next day, as the blood
and the constitution works with the day
MUST NEVER SLEEP LATE.
''Rse early and take as much outdoor exer-
else as possible before the principal hearty
meal. Then, if possible, wait until the next
day before eating again. People who live on
a heating diet are always hungry, but by living
as have stated they will very quickly lose
their craving and become very cheerful.''
Notwithstanding the dozens of remedies sug
| gested, the victims of the grip continue tC
| sneeZe and groan under the burden of the dis
ease. New features develop almost every day
| Perhaps the most alarming is the blindness
that attacks some of the sufferers. Many o.
these cases are holding on, and it is feared tha
permanent blindness may follow the attacks
on some of the sufferers.
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The Point of Sympathy.