The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-02

days. About that time several of my
friends had died of the secondary fever
which had followed their wounds. In n
few days my left leg began to swell and
throb with heat. The surgeons said !
must keep it wrapped in wet cloths. |
told them | would keep down the in
flammation by an application of tobacco.
They at once asserted that such an APP
plication would be rllinous. After they
left [ sent my servant for some tobacco,
envelOped my wounded leg in it, and
kept it wet with the cloths over it. In
an hour or two the pain diminished,
the heat throhbing ceased and | rested
more quietly than | had been doing.
The next day when the surgeons called
to see me, on looking at the wound they
expressed much surprise, and said: ! on
may keep on the tobacco | remember
that Gen. Robert Il. Lee called to see
me that day, and after looking at me Il
moment said: General, you are NOT
going to die: your eye is too bright
The tobacco being powerful nerve
tonic, it always eXcites my mtellectuai
faculties. Although several months
passed before | could walk without
crutches, yet | had no fever ana niue
pain from the inflammation. am sat'S-
fed that if tobacco were properly APP
piled, no external wound would ever be-
come sufficiently inflamed to cause
modification"
General Clingman' used to tell of many
wonderful cures wrought by tobacco III
cases of sore eyes and sore threats on
his recommendation of the weed. Here
are more of the interesting experiences
he had with tobacco, as related by him.
self:
.Some years ago in Raleigh, \. c., l
had several injuries of the head, which
were so serious that an apprehension
was felt for several days that | might
not he able to recover. After / had been
for n week under the treatment of DIR.
r. Burke Haywood, and was improving,
| concluded to make little experiment
on enc of the swollen wounds. Being
near the outer corner of the eye, its
swollen condition interfered with my
sight. and as | had learned from Chief
Justice Pearson that an application or
spirits of turpentine would soothe boil,
| touched that protuberance with it. In
the morning | found that instead OF re-
moving the swelling it had increased
considerably. On DIR. HaywoOd's ar
rival he said: You have given yourself
crysipelas in that wound, and it will be
very difficult to save your life l re-
piled: Doctor, / will see that it does
not get up into that wound; come back
and see me in four hours | sent for
tobacco, covered the upper wound with
it, and the forehead and temple between
that and the lower wound, keeping the
bandage carefully wet all the time.
About midday the doctor returned and
on the bandage being removed all swell
ing had disappeared. Though | was
confined to my room for some weeks, /
had no swelling of the wounds after
ward.
Zone evening in Washington | found
two of my friends sitting with their
boots off, both suffering from bunions of
long standing. / advised the use of to-
bacco and they Immediately sent for
and applied it. Application for a single
night made permanent cure, as they
have assured me, and two years ago one
Of the North Carolina members OF Con-
gress, ON my suggestion, relieved him
self in the same manner and says there
has been no return Of the soreness. -
St Louis Gl0be-Democrat.