The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-08
ABOUT "CUREs."
A Water Warranted to Cure Rheu-
matism.


Victor Smith in New York Press.
The Nevis is a small volcanic island
in the Caribbean Sea. There is a
stone conduit leading down from an
extinct crater, carrying a fine stream
of watah-the red hottest, stinkingest
sulphur watah you ever saw-into an
extinct hotel. Said hotel was built 145
years ago and destroyed about IS years
ago, leaving only an agglomeration of
stone ruins. l am offered this ruin
with watah-for $500. Dirt cheap! A
rheumatic who had spent $4,S76 on
physicians warrented to cure, went to
the Nevis and was well in ten DAYS.
About all that remains of the hotel is
the bath, which has been referred to
before in the column. Our paternal
Government should buy that hole and
send its invalids there. The watah
comes straight from hell. 1t smells,
tastes, feels of hell. When you drink
that watah you can't drink whiskey.
Hence.
The Sensitive Hollow.
There is an old saying that when the
hollow of a mans foot makes a hole
in the ground he is no gentleman. This
does not require demonstration. The
celebrated Adrienne, Comtesse de X.
who gave up her fortune to Napoleon
III, and went into the army in 1870
as a physician and nurse still lives
In New York, and her advice is often
sought by learned men in the medical
profession. Sedan settled her perma-
nently into poverty. for her money had
paid for some of the silver stewpans
of the Man of December. The Comtesse
maintains that the hollow of the hand
and the hollow of the foot are the
origin and sure of numerous ills that
are misunderstood by physicians. Be
ing nerve centres, they contract dis
ease; being nerve centres, they expel
disease. All they require is a chance
to do the one or the other.
Experime nting.
Acting upon the Comtesse's advice,
applied drafts" to the hollows of my
teet to draw out mass of rheumatism
that mad been plling up in my system
Tor thirteen years. Each pair is to be
worn six days. After wearing the fifth
pair all rheumatic pains disappeared
and with them the soles of my feet!
Three layers of skin peeled off, leav-
ing the plantar arch as fresh and rosy
as the new flesh that Mrs. Langtry OBJ
tains from her Rench remover. Nat
"N'ANAA5 mas OtEn Oul VI the
question for several days. Please send
me no more cures, kind friends! These
root drafts make the 199th certain re-
NEEDY. What their permanent effect will
De no one can guess. Time will tell.
Consolation.
One thing is settled, namely, an ex-
ternal application of common old pitch
and one thing and another to the soles
OF the feet will save many rheuma-
uc's life. When my soles left me
hastened to inquire of a physician If
there was danger In continuing the
drafts. NO" he said, "just go right
ahead with one or two more pairs and
don't wear them so long. The removal
OF that tough old skin you have been
walking on all your life will enable the
tar etc, in the drafts to work better
The operation Is to draw the uric acid
out OF the system. and it's pretty hard
TO do that through sole-leather." He
recommends wearing drafts in the
palms of the hands, provided a mans
employment is such as to permit Il.
They could be made circular, about 2lL
inches in diameter. l cannot help be-
Ieving In these things. The magnets
ring has proved its value to hundreds
or thousands Of rheumatics All of us
nave friends that wear IL and swear
by II, II we do not. The therapeutic
value OF something sucking out poison