Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-16
THURSDAY. july 1o. 1896.
A Letter From Dent County.

| We have had 'em. Brer Hicks fore
told ..troublous times on the 18th of
June. Many people here expected a
cyclone. It did not come, but we had
one of the most tremendous tidal waves
of malaria 1 ever saw. There were
signs of disturbance on the 10Th. but
about o'clock on the morning of the
18th, matters began to take definite
/ form and became rapidly 'smore so''
until about P. NJ. Then the heat be-
came binding, withering, sitting, al
though the thermometer only register
ed 40 degrees.
l had seen something similar on the
heads of the Middle Fork of Black
River when the wind was in the south
east. This state of affairs continued
with variable intensity, until the Lord
worked off the Convention at St. Louis
with another cyclone.
As to general results. Ia the Flat
woods of Southeast Dent county. on an
average, about four in seven people
are sick with all the ills that flesh is
heir to. All are intensified. In some
cases the trouble took the form of con-
gestive chills from the first. In many
other cases Of Functional Nervous De-
rangement acute heart disease has
been developed. Stomach troubles
have been made worse suddenly. Our
doctors are on their beam ends. In
some cases, especially where the pros
poets for bill are not brilliant, they
will visit case once and throw up the
sponge.
The writer being already far gone
on the down hill of life. came in for
liberal share in the trouble in the form
of heart and stomach arrangement.
He never. under any circumstances.
employed a doctor. He is convinced
that the whole theory and practice of
medicine amount to about dozen
great facts, some of which he has mas
tered.
VIII the readers Of the REGISTER
please excuse him if for moment he
revises history?
Thirty-one years ago he was Assist
ant Commissioner in the Bureau of
Freedman Refugees and Abandoned
Lands at Shreveport, La. A part of
the outfit of his office was hospital of
seventy-five beds, into which were
gathered specimens of all imaginable |
fag ends of suffering humanity, of all
shades of color, and all phases Of con-
dition. It was striking picture of
the mercy of God.
Over all this mass of variable suffer- |
ing humanity, a doctor presided. who,
during the stage OF the ORpIeasant11ss |
had been Medical Director on General |
Beauregard's : Staff, who, when that oc-
cupation was gone. had accepted the
position in the hospital at one hun
dred dollars month, until he could
gather up his patronage which the |
war had scattered. He was the best
physician l ever saw.
Into that hospital there was carried |
one day negro woman, lately from
the coast of Africa. who had been sold
into slavery by the King of her tribe,
because she was Devil Woman; that
is, she could kill any one she pleased
without danger of detection.
Somebody had tumbled to her rack
ct, and had given her a dose of her
own medicine, and she was dying of
Heart Disease.
A universal cry arose that nothing
should be done for her. But being
fully persuaded that DR.. Moore could
solve all the secrets of her theory and |
practice, she was treated with especial |
care. and arrangements were made /
with the doctor to aid him in a thor
ough examination of her IN regard to
her course.
She knew she must die, and so was
prepared to make d clean breast of the |
whole thing. Having mastered all the |
facts in the case, the next thing to be I
done was to provide az antidote to her |
practice. By diligent use of tests
unguents, the doctor at last succeeded /
in doing this to d good extent.
Having kept his formula thirty-one /
years, when the tidal wave of malaria
came on it appeared that in many Of
its modes of operating it was identical
with boodoo blood poisoning, it oc-
Cured to me to try Dr. Moore's RENE
dy for boodoo poisoning.
So making few changes to meet
the peculiarities OF the case it was
tried and was a complete success.
But the writer is by statute ruled
out Of the practice Of medicine in Mis-
souri,. and can only take care of HIM
self. He has accepted the situation.
THOMAS CALLAHAN.