The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-04-12

somewhere else that King Solomon was
the first great botanist, for he studied the
properties and virtues of every plant
from the fir tree to the hysop that spring
eth out of the wall and he knew all the
herbs that were good fer man for medi-
cine. I wish that be had handed down
his wisdom so that we poor suffering
mortals would know what kind of bark
or roots or herbs or leaves to use when
we get puny and painted. Maybe he
did hand it down in the books that are
lost, for the scriptures tell us that all the
rest of the acts of Solomon are written in
the books of Nsthan, the Prophet, and
Allah and lido, the seer. Maybe We
will find those books some of these days,
for there is railroad to Jerusalem now
and the investigating yankee is digging
away under the ruins of the temple.
They have recently found the stalls where
he kept his fine CHARIOT horses, 1,40O of
them, and which were driven by 700
handsome young men, who had gold
dust sprinkled in their hair every morn.
ing and itsparkled in the sunbeams and
made them look divine as they circled
around on dress parade. That's what
Josephus says.
But T am afrsid the botany will come
too late for me snd I will have to keep
on experimenting until something kills
or cures me. Tbe trouble is that if q
sick man gets we'll he has taken 80 many
different medicines that he doesn't know
what cured him. Ihad mule that liked
to have died, and gave him everything
that the neighbors told me from lye soap
and molasses to kerosene oil and lastly
We rubbed him with rail abdominally
and horizontally until the hair all came
off and he got we'll but our next sick
mule died before We got to the rail and
the mule doctors are still in, the dark,
I've been reading good deal of late in 8
standard book on medicine and / found
seventeen remedies for bemicrania and
twenty-seven for pertussis. One OF these
diseases is neuralgia headache and the
other is whooping cough, but sometimes
1 forget which is tother and take the
wrong medicine. The headache belongs
to me and the cough to the little orphan
and the mantelpiece and tbe bureau is
full of bottles and vials aud capsules and
tumblers and spoons and the medicine
have such curious names on the labels
that I forget which is mine and which is
the child's. My doctor has given me
seven remedies and charged me for every
experiment, but my neighbors have given
me twenty seven free gratis and l think
1 am little better considering, but I
can't tell who's ahead, my neighbors or
the doctor. If it wasn't for the inter.
missions I couldn't get along at all, but
almost every day have lucid interval
of few hours and that keeps up my
hopea. I have one cow. have been
taking horse radish and peppermint and
not through my mouth, but
through the olfactory openings just
above, and experienced relief for time,
but it is slow business and wouldn't
make a good perfume. have tried
antipirine and several antis and the girls
bathe my throbbing temples with cam.
phor and have tried gentian for the
last three days and now am on half
rations of aalt dissolved in tumbler of
water, which friend said was the favor.
ite remedy of Major Campbell Wallace,
who is near ninety years of age and there
was no telling how long man would
live if he would use it. A good female
friend sent word to string half a dozen
nutmegs on black thread and tie them
around the throat. The word came to
me and bored holes in them with an
awl and stringed them and went to bed
with them on. but I found out next
morning that the nutmeg business was
for the whoopiug cough. Another COED
ueiehbor sent word that another woman
told her that if / would catch roach
and shut it up in little paper box my
headache would 60 off when the roach
guawed out or died. That reminds me
of old Uncle Isam, whose remedy for
was to mash a lizards tail
and let the reptile lay under the doorsill
uutil it died. And that reminds me now
how Neighbor Freeman had two hound
dogs that wouldn't stay at home; 80 he
curtai]ed their tails about three inches
and buried the fragments in the garden
gate, and they never roamed away ary
more. But the like of all that don't cure
hemicranian headache nor pertussian
whooping cough, and to my opinion both
will have to be nursed until the weather
settles down and the east wind shifts to
the uouth and west and stays there.
They have called me to Brunswick to
lecture, and am going where the salt
sea breeze will blow upon nae gently !;
and Pm going to take the child and her
mother and maybe we will all come back
reiuvenated and remunerated.
But believe in medicine and in doc
tors. We are bound to have them.
Everybody can't 60 to Brunswick nor to
the Hot Springs. but the poorest people
can boil down bark and roots and sheep
safron or something that will amuse the
patient until nature cures him I be-
lieve that there is remedy for almost
every disease except old age, and the
doctors are finding them out. Whooping
cough ought to be cured in twenty four
hours and it will be when the germ
theory of microbes and bacteria is fully
understood. So let the experimenting