The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-22
He DEFENDS
The MOSQUITO.
SIads Says Insects Make Him
Immune From Many Ills.
WELL BITTEN IN THE SPRING.
For Thirteen Years He Has Exposed Him
self 10 Attacks Of The Pssls--nas Made
Converts TO His Theory.
WELL BITTEN IN THE SPRING.

New York. Dec. 22.-There is at least
qhto-and he lives i'm New Jersey. too.
He likes TO have them around and en-
courages them to feast upon his body as
early as possible In the summer, believ-
ing that thereafter he is immune from
further vexation and annoyance. and
even from malaria, rheumatism and
neuralgia.
Charles NJ. Slade, champion OF the mos
quito, is a cotton broker at No. So Worth
street. He lives In Englewood y. j.,
where he has handsome residence. Mr.
slade has submitted To mosquito inocula-
ton every year during the. last thirteen
years, and has obtained some converts
among the merchants in the wholesale
dry goods district.
SUSTAINED BY NEWS.
II was very much interested In a dis
patch printed on Tuesday" Mr.. Slade
said I'm his library last night. 1T was
dated Washington. ID. c.. and said that
Surgeon General Sternberg had receiv-
ed a cable from Major Walter Read, in
charge OF the medical department in
Havana, Cuba, i'm which II was report
ed that the incubation of Spanish inn
migrants by mosquitoes had been sue
cessful I'm eighty per cent. OF the cases.
II cut the article out and had consid-
cradle fun with IL i'm the dry goods dis
trict. / showed IL to my friends, who
had always doubted my assertions. and
told them that at last the old man has
been vindicated 1 am firm believer In
mosquito inoculation as preventive
against annoyance by the insects them
selves and as preventive OF malaria,
rheuma tism and neuralgia.
81 have been inocuiated by mosquitoes
esery year for thirteen years Mr. Slads
continued. While l was living In Mont
clair. ~. j., In 1887. / went into the gar
den one day with my body from the waist
up covered with only thin gauge under
shirt. As ] stopped over the various now
ers ! let the mosquitoes swarm on me.
principally on my back After they had
enjoyed their feast for half an hour i
went into the house. / put tesspoonful
OF ammonia in pint OF water and
rubbed the liquid over my skin. That
took the sting out of the bites.
That was at dusk, one day in May.
and for the rest OF the season was not
bothered once; i'm fact, If mosquito did
try TO bite me II was Intellectual could
not feel it.
That practice I have continued ever
since. ] 60 through the process of inocu-
lation az early as possible, and always
at dusk when the mosquitoes are set
Ting down for the night, and when they
are inclined to do their hardest biting
Every one seemed TO complain OF having
malaria. / have never been troubled with
IL,
There was a strong belief In the pop
ular mind that malaria came from the
trees That was a fallacy, because you
do not get malaria from trees. Mosqui-
toes were naturally vegetarians, and not
blood sucking insects, and IL allow my
self to be bitten by them in the spring
time ! will he immuned against malaria
as well az mosquito bites. The germ of
malaria is cultivated I'm surface water
and is absorbed into the system by drink
ing.
II have several Aammocks hung under
the trees on my place here Mr. Slade
said, "and,I lie in them every night dur
ing the summer. The mosquitoes are thick
there hut they never trouble me. In 1895
] had q severe attack of meningitis, and
when | recovered I'm 1896 / took up BIZ
cycling. IA. L rode too long or too fast and
overdid the exercise invariably would
have rheumatism the next day.
..SAxs BITES CURED RHEUMATISM.
''One day rode to hdgewood and back,
l felt had overtsxed myself went
down by the side Of my pond and let the
mosquitoes bite my limbs from the knees
down to their hearts content. / bathed
with ammonia water, and the next day
there was not trace of rheumatism.
Several of my friends In the dry goods
district have become firm believers In
aVsqiito incubation, having first adopt
cd my suggestion TO give the treatment
a trial"
do the members OF your family prac-
tice your belief?'
We'll, no." Mr. Slade replied. my wife
and daughters do not, although, per-
haps, they are inoculated unconsciously
when 1 have them out among the now-
ers or or the lawn with me. The eficacy
OF the mosquito incubation | firmly be-
lieve I'm, but then ] ask. What are we
going TO do i'm winter when We have no
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