The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-11

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causation of diseases, it only iei.ai tie
for me on this Introductory +:
Remember. lis but plain ioslc tiiae :.
cure disease we must have power -
influence or circumvent the st'iiit I'd.
causes It. Now, one of#th easlesl 49, Wy
out of the dilemma is to tooi W.. Pr.
by giving the disease away, Rms: iis
it to some object animate or ma iiiiiia -
Let&me illustrate:sIA Scotchn1an goes "
the cross roads, 31ifts&sup= stone DIS
his warts upon it and replaces II, sasi"s'
I'm ane, the warts iva,
The first %ane 1t come oN
Tacks the warts ava.
..Ard the first roor chap that happens
to pick up that Stone gets the wa -
A equity old German goes on three sue
cessive days to a fir-tree ana says.
'Tannenbaum ich k:ase DIR que siehl
plagi1 mich schier, after WHICH tiie tieS
..ithers and the govt is cured, 90 EN- W.
nent an authority as Pierius ADVISES eiia
a patient may transfer his disease to an
ass by sitting on the animal with ms
face to the tail (of course, thls is cfuei.
worse than vivisection. and commend i
to the solemn attention OF the Humane
Society.
METHODS OF HEALING.
Gas we progress in the treatment OF
particular diseases, we snail discover
many powerful agencies for overcoming
our spiritual tormenters. We may es-
cape them by going through the form
of a new birth. We may piacate them
by Offering sacrifices, o. we may invoke
the power and protection OF our Loro,
to say nothing of the saints, both male
We friuhtPp 2W2V the
evil spirits by the terror Of the grave.
by the charm of color. by the magic OF
numbers. We have at our disposal the
powerful agency of the sun, moon ana
other planets Herbs and roots and
salves and teas will cure if but properly
prepared by charmed hands Animals
have strange powers to cure. as is we'll
known to every Scotch lassie who has
cured her stye by rubbing it with the
tom cats tail Then too, there are
among men those of peculiar power.
NOW, let me drop my character as
professor of foll1-medicine and resume
tina OF your orator. at least long->enough
to assure you that what I have Just
said must in the light of careful and
scholarly research by members of the
Folk Lore Society, notably, Mr.. William
George Ralck,s be accepted as a reason
able syllabus of what Introductory
lecture on meG1cine would be, were the
medical science of to-day unknown. |
fear, however that I have not made
myself sufficiently clear. What I have
said has been too much in the nature
of glittering generalities. Permit me to
mass from the abstract to the concrete.
The class will again come to order while
r resume my instructions by taking
up some diseases in the treatment Of
which will be illustrated some of the
+ general principles which I have enunci-
ated.
TOOTHAHCE SUFFERER.
II shall lecture on the cause, preven-
ton and cure of very painful and
very prevalent Observation-Disclosures You
all appreciate its Importance. Shakes
peare tells us in Cymbelene that he that
sleeps feels not the toothache,' but he
falls to tell us how anybody can sleep
who has it. He comes nearer the truth
in Much Ado About Nothing when he
says:
There never yet was philosopher
That could endure the toothache pa
tiently.'
.By which he would have us conclude,
I infer, that he who makes ado about
toothache, makes ado abotSs something.
Burns with an accuracy of knowledge
that suggested personal experience OBJ
served:
When fevers burn, or ague freezes,
Rheumatics gnaw, or cholic squeeZes,
Our neighbors sympathy may ease US.
We plying moan;
But thee, thou hell o a diseases.
Ay, mocks our groan"
PECULIAR CURES.
ut was my Intention to discuss the treat
ment of few other diseas es, but I dis
cover that to do SO takes more time than
is at my disposal. I had accummula ted
~S,xl cor
ample, whooping cough. This is disease
which calls for diverse remedies: Wrap a
spider in a piece of muslin, pin it to the
mantelpiece; when the spider dies the dis
ease VIII be well. Dig a hole in the mead
ow, cutting away the sod in a single piece.
into this hole place the afflicted child in a
STOPPING posture and cover it up for few
minutes with the piece of sod: as soon as
the child is heard to cough it is removed,
when the cough is surely cured. Pass the
child over and under a donkey three times,
or in bad case, thrice three times: or,
nine stones shall be taken from stream
of running water, heat them red hot, drop
them into quart Of water from the same
stream bottle it up and give some Of it to
the patient for each of nine mornings. Or
tie nine knots In a string and hang it
around the patients neck; or follow any
advice that may be given by a man riding
some currant cake from the hands of a
woman who has married without changing
her name; or better still, from a woman,
who, after having been a widow, has re-
gained her, maiden name by a second mar
| riage. If currant cake is thought unwhole-
some, or if you can't find a person of the
above description from whom 70 receive it,
just let it go, but give the little victim
a diet of fried mice prepared by just any
old body There are numerous other val
liable remedies. but these are chiefly to be
relied upon.
CURE FOR RHEUMATISM.
81 can't let this audience-I beg pardon.
I mean my class. separate without giving
some timely advice as to how to cure
| rheumatism: Take frogs spawn. put it in
a crock, cover it with slate, bury the
crock for three months in the garden. then
take it up and rub the pains. or I should
say the parts in which the pains are To-
Gated, with what you find in the crock. q
am Informed that in consequence OF the
abundance of frogs, this cure is in general
use and is highly esteemed in TonaWandal.
| Beg or steal chestnut. but don't buy or
| permit anybody to give you one-and this is
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