The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-15
Some Phenomena of Yellow
 and Malari al Fever

b,r, ,.,, him what the bottle contained,
 hut yravely warned him not to touch
 tha contents on any account. Next
 morning early I went to the ambulance
 in order to carry my patient to nos
 pital To my amazement the man was
 entirely well. During the night, In
 scorn of consequence, he had uncorked
 the bottle and drunk every drop of the
 gin."
 MT. Duffy did not specifically say so,
 but his impression appeared to be that
 bicarbonate of soda and gin worked
 wonders curatively in Memphis during the plague. At all events, the country doctor held the record for his treat ment, and gin cured the mar wno vigorously sampled it.
 There are, perhaps. consummate am swers to these statements from learned professionals, but have not seen them. If the kidneys play so important part in human economy, 1t seems to me that it Is advisable for persons subject 10
 such diseases as yellow fever to drink
 habitually pure water and also water that has diuretic effect.
 Many years ago 1 was brought so low
 by what was, and still Is, called-mis- called in my opinion-"malariaf fever. that not only was my body depleted 10
 an extremity. but my mind was perish Ing SThuudiIy OhNo AoA' A'A of despair, a vision. thought that I had gone to a Virginia mineral spring and that the water cured me quickly.
 Returning to a distant home, more dead than alive, friend, without any col fusion on my part, sent me several gal Ions of Bethesda water. l drank or II copiously. Very soon my kidneys be- gan to operate freely and naturally. The poison was drawn from the liver, l htrt yoracious. grew well by leaps and bounds, gaining a pound of flesh daily for some time, until I was absolutely cured From that time l combatted
 the idea of the atmospheric cause Of
 this disease, and ascribed 1t wholly to impure water or milk. Subsequently.
 the southern part of Georgia developed
 flowing artesian water, springing from
 about 300 feet below the surface or
 the earth. and this water Is now almost
 universally distributed over that sec
 tion. The consequence is that South
 Georgia, once the least progressive part of the State, and the most unhealthy and summed, Is now the most populous, most advanced in several ways. and the most salubrious. The swamps remain,
 the ponds are there, the air has not changed, but the drinking water has
 been transformed. The same Is true
 of the city of RoUe, Italy. The air Of
 the Campagna stiH blows over the Eter-
 nal City, but the water supply Is now
 the best and most abundant in Europe.
 Rome is a distinctively healthy place,
 and free from fever originating there. In comparatively recent years strangers were warned to avoid the night air. and even in torri dsummer time, to sleep in a kind of sweat-box, with win dows closed. Now. all of these pre- cautions are useless. Pure water has conquered a false superstition of the air It is even said that leprosy, in the Sandwich Islands, and elsewhere.
 comes from impure water. and the dreaded Eliphantiasis Grolcorum, a
 kind of twin brother of leprosy, has
 been traced at Rio de Janeiro to the tainted water from the Corcovado mountain.
 These things are worth thinking about, perhaps Even science can
 learn from such experience. The Lord sometimes "raiseth up the foolish l things of this world to confound the wise."