El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-02
Progress In Medicine
By Walt Mason.

6CT rs A question, remarked ln'
professor. LAYING aside a maya
4 zine, whether medical sc1eii'S =
has advanced an inch in nule - q
years. The article I was just reSu ms
argues that the old woman Win ne
herbs and simples made as many o'il = -
as the most advanced practitioner u
the present day" ,.u,ad
saFhat may be-" said the low Dt 10y, "a u
man, but we must admit ina ina +t7aD
whole lot easier to take meuiO I've the
it used to be- We have 10 T,adi-
doctor credit for that NoWaoay , go is
cine that tastes like mouse a. smear
put up in capsules, or II 70 evSal
coated. and it's a real pleasui0
low it nod 70 take
when I was young haG 5 N mother
ouinine once in a while anu f,7I Of
mixed the dope into teaspO l--7,er
lam and then backed me INTO not
and made me take 1t. QuliiI- NJ, are
only breaks your heart Whlle # for
swallowing it, but you can lasIS -
six weeks afterwards. 1t flaYOIS 49,
thing YOU eat. But I'd as soon Iano i
dose of it now as to eat bSl- sICC-117-
apple. It's put up in herI llo,1o IF
sealed packages You swallow OLIo
those packages and wink coupe u
times, and that's all there is 10 II.
THE doctors nowadays try 70 i t,oir
things as pleasant as they can 1OI - -
patients They give small Doses az
the doses wear false Whiskers so lne!I
mothers couldn't recognize them ~
nine or calOmel is no worse l 10
maple sugar if you can't taste IL "nIi0
it's going down.
Last Spring had a large and com
plete assortment of bOils on the paCh 1
of my neck. I had been afflicted ina
way many times before, My neck -
ways was a favorite camping grouho
"a nUncn OF
them went into executive session there:
It gave Aunt Julia a great deal OF
happiness, which shows that its an II
wind that blows nobody good MY
Aunt Julia has all modern improve
ments when it comes to cooking ana
Housekeeping, but when it comes 10
medicine she sticks to the old fash-
Toned ideas. She has no use for tne
She believes in poultices for exterior
use, and anything that tastes IKE
Chinese revolution for the interior.
IF there's anything she thoroughly
enjoys, it's plastering a man all over
with pOultices. She keeps lot OF
flaxseed in the pantry, and she's al
ways asking me If I'm sure I maven
a boil or carbuncle that needs aIuen-
ton. Every spring when held my
grand annual COnVOcauOn of bOllS, she
got busy making pOultices. You must
remember how I used to come over
here, professor, with steamng poul-
Jice on my neck Ny misery was sucn
that no words can do justice to 1t.
There's nothing more disgusting than
a pOultice In order to do any good it
has to be hotter than the southeast
corner, and you can imagine how com
forting il is to have a quart of boil
ing flaXseed slapped onto a boil that s
as tender as an aching tooth. After a
while the poultice cools off, and then
it's the clammiest thing on earth.
When it feels like a dead fish, it has
70, 10 FOL nHF rad
one applied, and so on, until the pa
tient loses control of his faculties and
seizes the family axe and Stays few
innocent bystanders.
Il had to undergo that sort Of thing
at the hands of Aunt Julia for years,
but last spring when the bOils arrived
for their regular yearly ghost dance
my aunt was away visiting her sister,
so I went to the doctor He said he
never saw a finer galaxy of plain and