The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-10
Marx 1Udin on
Curing a Cold


The Arst time / began 10 sneeze a
friend told me To battle my feet In
hot water and so 70 bed. did so.
Shortly afterwards another friend ad-
yised me TO get up and take cold
shower bath. ! did that also With.
in that hour another friend assured
me II was good policy To feed a cold
and starye a fever So thought
Il best 70 dll myself mp for the cold
and then keep dark and let the fever
starve for while.
started down toward the office.
Another bosom friend told me that a
quart OF salt water taken warm would
come as near curing o cold as any
thing I'm the world. | hardly thought
had room for II but / tried II any
now The result was surprising.
believed l had thrown up my immor-
tai soul
Now as | am giving my experience
only for the benefit Of those who are
troubled with the distemper / am
writing about | feel that they Will
see the prOprlety OF my cauuoning
them against such portions OF II as
proved inefficient with me- and act
ing upon this conviction. warn them
aglnst warm salt water II may be
a good enough remedy. but | think II
Is too severe. II / had another cold
| in the head, and there were no other
course left me but 10 take a quart
OF warm salt water or an earthquake,
| ! would take my chances on The earth
quake
After the storm raging IN my stom-
/ ach subsidized 10 more good sam2ri-
tans happening along, / went on Dor
rowing hGndkerchiefs again and blow
inc them 90 atoms. until came
across q lady who had just arrived
from over the plains where doctors
were scarce and had from necessity
acquired considerable skill III tbs
treatment OF family complaints.
knew she must have had experience
for she looked 10 DO 100 years Old.
She mixed "a decoction composed
OF molasses aquafortis, turpentin,
and various other drugs and Instruct
ed me 10 take wineglass full OF I
every Is minutes. | never took bu
one dose that was enough. II robbe'
me OF all moral principle and awok'
every unworthy impulse in my IN
ture. Under rs mallgn influence m.
brain conceived miracles OF mean
mess. but my hands were too feeba
10 execute them, az that time hat
IL not been that my strength ha'
sQccumbed 10 succession OF infall
ibe remedies FOR my cold, | am sat
is1ed that would have tried 10 ro'
the graveyard
Like most other people | often fee
mean and act accordingly. but unit
IT took that medicine l had neye
reveled IN such supernatural deprav
ity and felt proud OF Il.
At the end Of two days | was read!
70 go to doctoring again. took
| few more unfalling remedies and Ana
| " drove my cold from my head 4
my lungs. l conversed IN q thunder
ing bass, two octaves below my nat
u-al tone. I could only compass m,
regular nightly repose by coughing
myself down 10 state OF utter cS
haustion. and then the moment ! be
gan TO talk in my sleep my discord
ant voice woke me up again.
NY case grew more and more SER
Gus every day Plain gin was recon
mended took It. Then gin an
molasses; took that also. Then gil
and onions; | added the onions AM
took all three. | detected no par
ticular result except that had &C
Quired a breath like a buzzard.
A sheet bath was recommended.
had never refused a remedy yet, ant
x seemed poor policy 10 begin then
Therefore | determined TO take
sheet bath, although had no ide;
what sort OF arrangement II was. |
was administered AZ midnight and tn
weather was frosty My breast am
back was barred. and a sheet (ther
appeared 70 be a thousand yards o
IT'D soaked In ice water was woun'
around me until resembled a swa
for a columbiad. IL was cruel ex
pedient When the chilly rag touche
ones warm flesh Il makes him star
with sudden violence and gasp TO
breath Just as men do In the deatl
agony. IL froze the marrow In m!
bones and stopped the beating OF m.
heart | thought my time had come
When the sheet failed a young lad!
friend recommended the application
! OF n .NluSlhlu plaster W my DiSaSt-
believe that would have cured m'
efrectually n q had not been fo
young Wilson. When I went to bee
put the mustard plaster-whicl
was very gorgeous one IS inches
where I could reach IL wheI
ready, but young Wilson got hungry
In the night and-here IS food for i'm
! aginatiou,
In San Francisco lady at the no
tel told me 10 drink quart OF whisky
overv % hours and a friend uptown
advised the same course. That mad,
half gallon. | did Il and still live
Now with the kindest motives II
the world 7 offer for the considera
ton OF consumptive patients the VI
riegated course of treatment lately
went through.-From Sketches New
and Old