The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-08

Birth, and ordered an Issue in the first
| Place to be made in his Neck, and that
two Ounces. of Blood should be drawn next
| Day at the Neck by the Application OF
| Leeches l advised besides that Tor three
| DAYS before each Change of the Moon,
and again before the Full, about five
Grains of the following Powder should be
given him Morning and Evening in
Spoonful of the Julap:
take prepared Human Skull, the Root
| of Male peony, of each one Dracuih
Pearls in Powder, half a Drachm. MIX
them all together and make very hne
| Powder.
ounces. The Antepileptick Water of Ian
| gins. an Ounce Syrup of the FLOWERS OF
! Male Peony, six Drachms.
"I likewise ordered the Nurse to take
Draught Of Whey, in which the Roots anu
seeds of Male Peony, and the Leaves OF
Lilly of the Valley had been boiled twice
every Day at the same Hours
"The Child continued well about two
Months, and then began to be troubled
with Convulsive Disorders; upon when
| Account the same Medicines were again
| repeated in large Doses, both TO the ChAd
| and Nurse Blisters were applied oehlnd
| the Ears. and he was again bleeded at
| the Jugulars with Leeches. by THESE
! Means he got we'll again within two or
| DAVIS.
| afterward when the same Disorder re-
! turned. he was cured by using the above
| Medicines. After he was seven Years old,
| the Commissions entirely left MIN; out
! about the lower part of the Back Bone,
| an indolent Tumor arose. This Tumor oc-
| casioned a Distortion Of the Vertebrate,
| which was succeeded by Weakness OF
| the Limbs and at length Palsey'
| DR.. Walter Harris, physician in ordi-
| nary to King William the Third of Eng
| land (born in England in 1851, and died in
1928, says:
| "A girl II years old of a sanguine con-
| stitution, and troubled with very long and
violent Epneptic Paroxysms, desired my
| advice the Eighteenth of December, liOl.
For six months she had suffered two Sc
| we're Paroxysms each day. The Paroxysm
was In this manner: She fell first down
| as if dead upon the floor or bed; whence
| this disease is called the Falling Sickness;
and after remaining motionless for little
| while she tossed her limbs here and there
| with a great force and violence, attempt
| ing TO beat herself with her hands She
| frequently Bonded her head downward
| with strong Commissions, and flung it
backward with such force as If she de-
signed to dash the hind part of her skull
to pieces"
After giving this vivid and accurate pic
ture of epilepsy he says: 81 prescribed for
her the following powders; Take of pre-
pared Earth Worms One Ounce. Human
Skull prepared Two Scrupies (forty
grains). Mix them ana divide into twelve
powders, one to be taken twice a day in
a spoonful of Cephalic Julap."
Dr. Richard Wiseman, who lived about
two hundred years ago, and who was the
physician to King Charles the Second of
England, wrote number of treatises on
various medical and surgical subjects, and
from his treatise on the Kings evil or
scrofula, the following paragraph is TAX
en- After prescribing various remedies he
says:
''But where that does not agree we pre-
scribe distilled milk of which this sort
may serve as an example. Take of best
| Sarsaparilla one pound Shavings of
Hartshorn six ounces. Leaves of Agrimo-
nv and of both kinds of Fluel1ine, of each
three handfuls, White and Red Saunders,
of each two drachms. English Liquorice
pound. Garden snails one hundred
Earth Worms one pound. New Cows
Milk two gallons
'Distill them according to art and TO
three pounds or pints of the distilled liquor
add two ounces of prepared Crabs Eyes
Let him take of this to the quantity of
four ounces at a time adding to each dose
some quantity of Cinnamon Water"
DR.. Harris treatment of fever was:
ITO a child of a year old labor1ng UNI
der a fever or tormented with gripes /
commonly prescribe In the following man
ner: Take Compound Powder of Crabs
Claws. Prepared Pearls of each one
drachm' sixty grains). Mix them and
make powder to be divided into six equal
parts. The child must take one of these
Immediately and let it be repeated Qf the
case require two hours thereafter, and
then every fourth hour"
DR.. Burton, who was contemporary with
DR.. Harris, wRote an interesting mono
graph on chin cough, or whooping cough,
as il is called in our days. He says:
when 1 am called, if The child be In
danger of being convulsed, in the first
place, In order to gain time, l let some
blood which / would not otherwise do,
because 1t is contrary to the second in
dication, and those children who were bled
or much purged were always longer in re-
covering than those who had not been
bled at all"
II ordered a Scruple twenty grains) of
Contharides Spanish hies) and as much
Campfire (cangphorl well rubber together
to be mixed with three drachms Of Elk
tract of Bark GSO grains), OF which com
position l gave the Children eight or nine
grains every third or fourth hour IN a
spoonful Of some simple Water or Juiap.
in which had dissolved some balsam
capaiyy."
AT the Congressional Funerai.-The
Mourner From Michigan-Poor old Blue
grassl I'm sorry he's gone.
mt Al