The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-21
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cure long time to cure that many.
The royal touch was supposed to
be etficacious and was applied in
England from the time of Edward
the Confessor to that of William,
who didn't touch.
The next cure.all was unguentum
armariad and according to the best
account this was made by human
blood, mummy, moss out of the
skull of a.thief executed and hanged
in chains. The ointment was not
applied directly to the wound, but
was rubbed on the weapon. The
number of people who recommend
ed and endorsed the unguent was
astonishing, among them being
Lord Bacon, who gave it at least
an equivocal endorsement.
The next universal cure was the
"Sympathetic powders, which was
obtained and introduced by friar
who had travelled in the east and
among the patrons of the friar and
users of the remedy were James the
Second, the King of France aud
many noblemeD, who bought the
formula at enormous prices. Lord
Digby got the secret and applied it
to man who was wounded in a
duel. He melted the powders and
put in a piece of garter The
gentleman was cured. Being
wounded again the gentleman left the
garter out and sent to Lord Digby
begging that the hose supporter be
sent to him.
"The Perkins Ira tor" another
quack humbug, was made of bits of
brass and iron, two inches long,
blunt at one end aud sharp at the
other, and was used by passing it
over the different injured parts.
DR.. Holmes suggested that it had
been taken from DR.. Galvan's use
of metals. The "Perkinian Trac
tor" as it was called, made it's ad-
vent in 1896, but fell into what the
president called inocuous desuetude
in 1911. But while it had it's day
it hourished wonderfully. Royal
hospitals for it were founded in
Edinburgh and Copenhagen. A
commission was appointed at
one time to estimate the
number of cures made by
! the Perkinian method and the mod
est figure of 1900, 900, which the
committee believed to be under the
mard, was reported. DR.. Oliver
Wendell Holmes, who had about as
much experience as anybody in ran
sacking for old curios, said in 1861
that he had only found one, by
dint of much search. There were
eight professors, beside any number
of titled great men, 30 clergymen,
II physicians, and 8 surgeons who
indorsed it. None of the names of
those who endorsed it have come
down to US.
DR.. Wallace paid his respects to
homeopathy, taking whack at it
from the standpoint of Hahneman-
nism. He did not wish to reflect
on the honor or integrity of anyone,
but spoke of the matter as he con-
sidered it. Homeopathy was in
touch with the royal touch,
"Unguentum Armariad," ,he
"Perkininan Tractor" and Berk-
ley's Tar Water"
DR.. Sears made few remarks
and said that among all peoples
there seemed to be looking for
ward to the discovery of some un,
known remedy that would turn up
some day and cure all ills or give a
new lease of life. They thi1 k there
is some secret in medicine and when
quacks come along they believe the
latter have found it. In the matter
of the whisky and opium cures he
believes that the expectations and
imaginations had as much to do
with the cure as the nostrums.
Drs. Curtis, Snead, Hunter aud
Black made informal talks in which
they all agreed that the public
should be informed of the
deleterious effects and after results
of nostrums, and they believed that