The herald., 1896-02-25

moved. be urged and commanded
this course upon his honor az physi-
cian, and one can readily understand
that, after the patience and loyalty
which he had shown In treating the
wound, it cost Mrs. Humphrey a
struggle to refuse her consent to the
operation. -4
But, In the meantime, through q
curious chain of circumstances, infor-
nation OF. q means of succor in this
extremity was. being brought to Mrs.
Humphrey. Providence sometimes &C.
lects bis meanest creatures for uncon-
scious agents of the greatest good. In
the seclusion of his editorial den at
San Diego, one Dr.. r. Q. Remondino,
late president of the Southern Cslifor-
MIA Medical association, had been for
weeks scratching his head and biting
at the editorial pencil ia an endesvor
to. produce q masterpiece of his capa-
cious mind. He wanted a subject
which would arouse the attention and
applause Of his associates, who had 80
highly honored him by making him
their prophet, priest and king-s cub
ject that should bring into play all the
logic, the sarcasm and the erudition
OF his subtitle intellect! In some mys-
terious moment Of inspiration he
pitched upon the heathen Chinee as
such q subject and wrote bis now cele.
brated treatise entitled, Why Ameri-
cans Should Pstronize Chinese Physi-
clans. This was printed in the medi.
cal journal of which DIR. Remondino
was the editor, and uhortly afterwsrd,
the same article. or a synopsis thereof,
was read before the Southern Csiifor-
MIA Medical association, in session at
Catalina. DR.. Remondino's hopes Of
fame were more than realized. He
| was the hero of the hour, and 80 keen
was the appreciation of his great pro-
duction that it was at once ordered
printed, in the expectation that it
would crush, in one fell swoop, the in
famous wretches who we're supposed
to be fattening upon the sale of Chi
nese herbs.
Unfortunately for DIR. Rem ondino,
but, as it proved, very fortunately for
Clara Humphrey, the FIowery King
dom Herb Remedy company refused
to be crushed. In fact, it had the au-
dacity to reply to DR.. Hemondino's IT,
rade. Thus it happened that an article
vigorously defending the use of orient
al medicines appeared in the Los An
geles Times of August Is, 1895. at the
very time when Clara Humphrey was
lowering between life and death, with
ful =. lease of life, according to her
physician, of but forty-eight hours.
Some Of Mrs. Humphreys friends saw
this article, and urged her to consult
the Flowery Kingdom Herb Remedy
company before permitting the child's
leg to be taken off. The child was now
too weak to walk or even to endure the
jarring Of carriage, and was taken in
her brothers arms to the office of the
company.
The diagnosis of the Flowery King.
dom Herb Remedy company was very
different from that Of the medical ex-
perts who had been tresting the case.
An opinion was at once rendered that
there was no cancer Of the bone, aud
no necessity whatever for amputstion.
That blood-poisonins was present, and
that the life of the child was hanging
by thread, was determined by an ex-
animation of her pulse. In fact, the
virus from the wound, which had been
kept from healing by repeated opera.
tions, bad already gone through the en-
tire system. But the patient was as.
sured that there would be no difficulty
in controlling this by means Of herbal
remedies.
In a mature person, a cure would
have been much more difficult. The
matter of healing the wound, or re-
placing the bone which had decayed
and that portion which had been cut
away, would be more tedious process.
1t might require year, but it could be
done. The essentials to recovery we're,
first, a thorough cleansing of the sys-
tenn by proper remedies, to clear it of
all the products of Inflammation and
liberation, the decayed tissues, the
dead flesh and the impure blood; and,
second, an upbuilding Of new. and
healthy tissues, muscles and bone in
the affected parts by the use of spe-
cial foods in the form Of herbs. 1t
was explained that bone is as much
alive as any portion of the body, that
1t can be repaired and renewed and
cleansed il the proper methods are
employed, although Of course it re-
quires more time to 60 down to the
marrow than it requires to affect the
softer muscles and tissues. But the
opinion was positive, in this instance,
that time, patience, skill and herb
foods would do the work. TX
The diagnosis and explanations ap.
peared 80 reasonable and 90 consistent
to Mrs. Humphrey that she at once de-
termined to trust in the virtues of the
despised, and, as yet, little known orr
entail remedies. She procured supply
and commenced to prepare them at
home and to administer them accord
ing to the printed directions upon the
packages. The rapid physical deterio-
ration which had commenced was at
once checked and the fear of speedy