St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-19
YELLOW FEVER ITEMS
TO PREVENT FEVER.

street, BROOKLYN Is anxious tna'
the people of the country shall
know of what he claims to be. q
positive preventive of yellow fever
and all contagious diseases.
MIR. Newman says that bag
worn over the chest containing a
small lump of asafoetida, a lump
of campbor and pod of garlic will
stave off all infectious and conta-
glous diseases. He says this pre-
ventive has always been used in
Poland, with great success, even
being efficacious in the time of the
black plague. Mr.. Newman says
1t is we'll worth trying and that it
will be found 10 be the means,
should fear of an epidemic prevail,
of reassuring the people. Objec-
tion might be made to the combl.
nation of odors, but he says they
will not be Extensively noticeable
if the ingredients are carefully in
cased in muslin bag.
10 CURE YELLOW FEVER.
A correspondent of one of the
London papers asserts that no fatal
results need be feared from yellow
fever If the person attacked, as
soon as the symptoms appear, takes
,umblerful of olive oil with the
| juice of a lime squeezed into it.
This dose should he repeated till
vomiting and purg,ng ensue.
:This is lnfallable in checking the
virulence of the complaint, says
the letter writer, sand speedy
convalescence invariably follows.
l have not only proved Its efficiency
personally, but have witnessed its
complete success in dozens of cases,
both IN Cuba and South America.
CREosoTE SMOKE KILLS MosQu1To.
Will H. Price, of Biloxi, Miss,
says: 1t is well.known fact that
creosote smoke played an import
ant part in the yellow fever of
1878. Walter Foster, section boss
of this place, kept a pile of rotten
logs IN his yard, sprinkled with
creosote, burning all the time,
night and day, and his family was
in the house, with yellow fever
all over the town, but Fosters
family never took the fever.
| took my family to a3house on
Choukltabuff river, above Black.
wells, my three children, just over
the fever; my wife, two young
ladies and anboy, and ten gallons
Of creosote. kept the smoke up,
az Mr.. Foster did IN Biloxi, and
none took tie fever.
Worms, bugs, flies, mosquitoes,
spiders, all got the smoke and died.
4 SULPHUR In The SHoE.
/ A correspondent of the Times
Democrat says: As an ounce OF
preyenlatiye,is worth pound OF
cure, Thought 1t worth while To
call your attention to a simple rene
4 dy for keeping the mosquito away
from the person. My informant
obtained his information from a
doctor who practiced IN Havana,
Cuba, for number of years be.
fore science discovered that cthe
stegomyla transmitted the dlesase
of yellow fever.s The remedy il
so simple that it smay be laughed
at. 1t is this: Take about half q
small teaspoopful of flower of sui
phur every morning, aud put in the
heel of the stocking. The smell
arising from the same will keep
the mosquito away from the per.
son. l will frankly SAY that l,
and numerous others of my ac'
| quaintances, have triedOit for the
past three days, and find nothing
offensive IL
| Why The NEGRO Is IMMUNE.
| Baton Rouge, La, Aug. g.
| Some of the, physicians If the city
present novel and plausible theory
in regard to the negro anel the yel'
low fever.
| II is a we'll known fact. that the
negro IS less apt TO take the yellow
fever than a white person. Few
negroes ever take the fe yer, ane
this fact, lt'ls generally supposed
is due to the peculiaritles of the
race.
Now the theory is adval iced thai
the reason the negro seldo m takes
the fever is due to the fac that ht
is always fighting the ,osqulto