The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-10-07
ODD REMEDIES.
MAN OIL, ANT SPIRITS AND OTHER
CURIOUS THINGS USED.

yuoso Who Use Them Firmly Believe In
Their virtnes-Drug Clerks Supply the
Demand by Giving Harmless Substitutes
and Charging Fancy Prices.
cave want dees filed wit man Oil -
With this the speaker, I. rawboned,
stolid looking Swede, handed dirty
two ounce vial across the counter OF
Division street drug store to the clerk
Without saying a word or moving a
muscle to indicate astonlshlnent at TINS
singular request the clerk took the vial
and disappeared behind the prescription
case. In moment he reappeared, and'
handing the vial back, remarked IN an
Indifferent tone:
"Ninety cents.
Being asked to tell something about
the traffic in the fat of human beings
the clerk grinned.
81 gave the fellow two ounces of SIM
ple cerate and charged fancy price to
impress him with the genuineness CT the
man fat, 30 said be. 81 see no harm IN
the deception. The fellow has unbound
ed faith in the virtues of man OIL, ana ne
wouldn't be happy until he believed ne
had some. If didn't sell him some, ne
would find druggist who would. Ihe
simple cerate will do him just as much
GOOD as man oil. We often have calls for
remedies as absurd as this. We always
an tbem-out of the simple cerate bot
tie if it be an oil, or some other harm
less drug if it be something else. "
Investigation disclosed the fact that
the various portions of the city have their
peculiarities in beliefs as to the efficacy
Of various unusual remedies. In the
Swedish settlements man oil is believed
to have marvellous virtues IN aches and
poains when applied externally. Over in
the stockyards region and in the south
west portion of the city dogs grease is
held in high repute as specific for con-
sumption. The men il charge at the dog
pound declare great many of the dogs
that come to an untimely end IN the
death chamber there are converted into
superior article of cod liver oil for the
use of consumptives. They declare that
number of "doctors" regularly visit
the pound and select nice, Fat dogs,
which are slaughtered by the attendants,
to be rendered into oil for the alleged
physicians patients. Not only this. but
the patients themselves often send rela-
tives or friends to the pound to get dogs
for this purpose. Usually the attendants
kill and dress the dogs, receiving a
small fee for their trouble. Sometimes
the dogs are taken away to be killed.
One dealer said he usually got from half
a gallon to gallon of oil from dog
that the grease resembled lard oil in ap-
pearance; that the oil had no disagree
able odor if the dog was young; that
the dose was a tablespoonful three times
day. An interesting feature brought
out was that after person had once used
dogs grease other remedies would have
no effect whatever on him.
Out on Milwaukee avenue ralnworm
oil and ant spirits are held in high re
pute. The druggists have frequent calls
for these remedies and they always fill
the prescriptions, the former out Of the
olive oil bottle and the latter with alcoho!
slightly colored. The Germans believe
both remedies are valuable for externa.
use for all sorts of aches and pains, in
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