The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-03-31
DR.. {. B. BOBO
Continues to Gives Most SenSi-
bic Advice Along the Lines
of Hygiene.

MIR. EDITOR: l wish to continue
the discussion of the subject,
Water, how to apply to preserve
health and cure various diseases. :"
l see in my last some one has COM
pletely spoiled my latin motto by
changing mems to meus and sana to
sane. | desire toeuote few emf
nent medical authors ON water as
therapeutic agent. These are in
forms OF prescriptions which can
be used by all intelligent readers
and injurc none except the doctors.
A common sense use of air, water
and hygienic treatment will surely
cause the Doctors visits to be less
frequent.
DIR. Lambe says that drinking
distilled water will cure stone,
gravel, cancer and other malignant
diseases, if a pure diet is used at
the same time. DIR. Hypes, of st.
Louis, says that to drink plenty Of
hot water is the best kidney medi-
cine one can take. DIR. Carpenter,
of st. Louis, says the best way to
cool fever is by sponging with tepid
water. DIR. j. l.. Ingram says I
believe in plenty of water internally,
externally and cternally. DR.. w.
Frank Moss says the quickest and
best way to move the bowels is by
an injection of water. The quick
est way to produce sweat is the
hot bath. The quickest way to
stop hemorrhage of the lungs is to
apply cold cloths or ice to the chest.
The best stimulant is the hot bath
or hot water drinking. The best
remedy for bruises and lacerations
is the application of cold wet cloths.
All old soldiers can bear testimony
to the fact of this statement. All
army surgeons fully realized the
value of water as an antiseptic,
anodyne, sedativc, tonic, diapho-
retic, styptic and other healing
properties. The physiological effects
of hot and cold water are diluent,
dissolvent, sedative, laxative,
emetic, nervine, expectorant, alter
ative, diurctic, tonic, anti-spas-
modic, anodyne, anesthetic, dia-
phoretic, styphtic and cholagogue.
A fiuttering heart is quieted in
stantly by applying over it cold
wet cloth. Vomiting and nausea
are checked by a cold wet cloth
under the chin. Apply cold wet
cloth over night for few nights for
sore throat. Severe pains in the
lungs are relieved by hot cloths be-
tween the shoulders and cold cloths
over tina lungs in front; renew the
cloths every four minutes. What a
contrast between the treatment of
diseases now and rs years ago.
Your correspondent remembers the
time when a patient scorcbed with
fever was shut up in close room
with strict orders from the doctor
not to allow it to have drop of
cold water! And often, in order
to deplete his patient still more,
the socalled M. d. would cord his
patients arm and with the deadly
lancet proceed to draw from it
blood! till he tainted. All this in
the name of science! My father
told me when a boy, he had lain in
bed three weeks with hot fever.
not allowed a drop of water. One
day neighbor lady came in about
dinner time, as she had dined at
home, and offered her services to
wait OH him. When alone he be-
gan begging her for water. He
said, Il am burning up! 7 am
dying for water! The good lady's
sympathetic nature could not with
stand his appeals. She gave him
water and in fifteen minutes he was
in profuse perspiration and recov-
cred. A thousand times better it
would have been, if our forefathers
had followed the example of the
savage Indians, repaired to natures
laboratory, the forest, and guided
by instinct, and what common
sense the God of nature had given
them, gathered and prepared the
numerous medicinal plants spread
out before them, and treated them
selves. c.. B. Bono.
liz ~ ~