The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-07-13
SOME QUEER CURES.
STARTLING METHODS OF BAN
lSHlNG DISEASES.
Physicians Brighten Patients, Freeze
Them, Have Them Stunx by bees,
Hurled ia Whale BIubber, Cut heir
HAIR or Send Them PromenadihE'

1t is characteristic of the end OF the
century that it has not only given blrth
to new diseases. but has invented many
startling cures for old ones.
1t has been observed that rheumatic
and nervous patients who have been ia
any severe accident, or have received
any violent shock, have begun 10 re-
cover from the very moment OF the
shock, aud this observation suggested
TO one eminent specialist the idea OF
curing by fright
His methods Of producing the shock
vary with the different cases, but Ia
yorite plan is To send anonymous let
teIs 10 his patients. full OF slruIehl
abuse or threats of injury. The Tear
and lndlgna tlon thus caused arouse the
patients as nothing else could. IheA
forget their ailments. and thus take
very important step toward cure.
Another physician claims 10 have
made some remarkable cures by his
system OF .frigopathlc" or freezing In
obdurate eases OF nervous exhaustion,
consumption and dyspepsia.
The process consists in subIeeting the
patient 10 more than Arctic tempera-
lure. For this purpose he has design
ed freezing bath. tank Of metal
lined with furs, five feet deep and four
and one-half feet square. This TANK
Is inserted In an outer well. the Inter
yening space being filled with freez-
Ing mixture OF carbonic end sulphur
Gus acids, which keeps the tempera-
ture of the well from 100 degrees TO 10
degrees below freezing point.
The patient Is lowered Into this Are
tic temperature and kept there from
ten minutes TO II quarter or an hour.
the process being repeated al Intervals
OF few days.
The effect OF the freezing is said to
TO be almost magical. The dyspeptie
subject. who for years possibly has
never known the luxury of Il good APP
petite. energies from his bath rayenous
with hunger. and the nervous subject
finds his nerves strengthened and his
whole body illed with new life and
energy. The most chronic cases yield
to treatment OF month Ct two.
or all human ailments rheumatism
can boast the most varied and startling
remedies. In Malta The rheumatic pa
tent invites bees To settle GU and sting
him. the poison of the sting nentralizing
the acids OF rheumatism and allaying,
II not actually curing. II.
In Australia a still more remarkable
remedy Is In fashion. The patient fire.
quents an hotel in the neighborhood or
the whaling grounds. When whale
Is caught and lowed ashore little pits
or graves are dug in his carcass, and Ia
these beds of decomposlng blubber the
patient lies for an hour or two. repeat
ing the process as long as the whale or
his rheumatism lasts.
Another daring method OF treating
rheumatism Is TO make the patient
walk barefooted ON dewy grass every
morning and evening: while a more
agreeable cure Is that Of sun-ba thing.
In which the victim spends a certain
time each day basking or exercising In
the sun In state familiar to Adam.
One of the latest and most effective
methods of curing a cold is the homeo-
pathic one of applying ice to the spinal
column. striking variation from the
more ordinary plan of roasting your
cold" before hot fire.
A successful method Of relieving bad
or chronic headache is to cut the pa
tents hair. BY cutting the ends of the
hair so many thousand natural vents
are opened to relieve the congestion In
the head