Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-07-17
DOG FAT AS A MEDICINE.
THE DOG MEAT BOLOGNA MAN
TO BE INDICATED.
Remedies of Many Kinds offered to Con-
sumptives-A PhiladelphIan Be
lieves In Dog Fat-Skunk's
Oil Also Endorsed.

A queer instance of the extreme
measures to which n consumptive will
resort in order to check the ravages of
the disease has just come TO light in
Kensington. A man in the last stages
of consumption, who has tried every
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 its 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 to q sufficient state of
enlbonpoint, when they are deemed fit
to kill. The fat is carefully separated
from the rest of the carcass and boiled.
The fat is then rendered and allowed
to cool, when it hardens. 1t is then
ready for eating, and the consumptive
devours large quantities of it before
each meal.
There are numerous quack remedies
for consumption, known as "old
woman cures" some of which are as
ridiculous as they are valueless. An
old colored woman living in Philadel-
phia claims that skunk oil will cure
the most advanced case of consump-
ton. She Is over so 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 q short time
ago by consumptive individual who
had reached that stage where the pa
tient is willing to try anything. En-
tering the old woman's house his nos
trils were assailed by q disagreeably
pungent odor, which increased in 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 filled
the air. He managed to regain the
street in state of complete exhaus-
ton. Consumption is bad enough, "
he says, ''but skunk oil is verse"
Another old remedy which farmers
advocate is for the patient to sleep IN
the boudoir occupied by cow. just
what benefit is derived from this heroic
treatment is not definitely known, UNI
less it lies in the fact that the decom.
posed manure develops an aroma con-
tanning elements Of ammonia so faint
that it can be inhaled to a beneficial
advantage.
Numerous experiments in forcing
patients to drink the hot blood of ami
mails just killed have been made. Pro-
fessor Bernheim, of Paris, is an advo-
cate Of goats blood. claiming that it
cures tuberculosis. In recent report
to the academy of medicine, of Paris,
he says that out OF fourteen cases
which he has tried two were at once
cured. Ten OF the remaining patients
were greatly benefited by the treat
ment
A systematic course Of swinging is
an old English remedy. dating back
into the seventeenth century, which has
probably been forgotten. In 1856
James Carmichael Smyth, NJ. d., +. r.
S., published quite a pretentious treat
Use setting fourth the advantages of
swinging as a cure for pulmonary con-
sumption. DIR. Smyth, who was at
that time practicing medicine in Lon
don, had numerous cases of consump-
ton under his charge, he being quite
an authority on the disease. For a
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
ises, and took patients to board, putting
them through systematic course of
swinging. Each patient was obliged
to 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 were greatly bene-