The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1914-03-12
REMARKABLE ARIES
IAN WELL
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the telephone in his office rang
Answering it, he was startled by
Porter's exclamation, u.
Come out here quick I've
struck h or something else"
The colonel rushed down stairs,
sprang into his auto and hurried
: out to his farm, where he found
the well-boring crew looking like
a set Of stokers in the hold of a
:. steamship and in high state of
excitement.
cts oil. Colonel it's oil, they
cried, and, sure enough it was oil,
and it was squirting out Of the
pipe in a Pinch stream three feet
high. The colonel, though great
ly excited himself, did not lose
his presence Of mind, but ordered
the well to be capped at once, and
lit was done. Then he telephoned
!. to a number Of his friends, includ-
ing the city doctors and druggists,
to come out and see the well and
its product. Several of them re-
sponded promptly; and, when
they were all assembled, an exam
nation Of the oil was made.
1t was the unanimous conclu-
sion that it was not petroleum,
otherwise coal oil, though in APP
pearance it resembled that pro-
duct, being dark and sticky, but
the odor was entirely different
This new substance had a distinct
ly fishy smell and pungent taste.
Two doctors and one pharmacist
said that it resembled sodium ich-
thyol more than anything else, and
that, if it was ichthyol, the well
would make Col. Chadman a null
ti-millionaire, as ichthyol is a very
valuable and costly remedial "a
gent, being used for all skin dis
eases and also for govt and rheu-
matism.
When the medical men said that,
George McI4ane, who was present
and had with him a dog that was
nearly dead with mango, rolled
his dog over in puddle of it and
the dog went away bowling and
scratching. Three days later
George reported that the dog was
completely cured and that new
growth of thick, glossy hair was
coming put on him.
| Col. Chadman, as is generally
known, suffers much from rheu-
lmatism, and he took some of the
stuff home with him and applied
it to the affected parts and he
says he now feels completely cur
ed.
! Various other experiments have
been made with this queer oil and
all were followed by surprising
results. Amongst them may be
mentioned the case of one gentle
man who was cured of chronic &C.
zema by two applications of the
oil and another who was complete
ly cured of erysipelas by one APP
plication. Henry Little, well
known darkey, who for years has
suffered from indigestion, swal-
I lowed wine-glass full of it every
might for three nights and now
| ne says that he "feels like a new
Niger" and can eat anything
from an oyster up to a horse.
| A sample of the oil was sent to
the State Chemist for analysis
and, when he examined it, he be-
came indignant, thinking that it
was an attempt to play a practi-
cal joke upon him, and he wrote
lCol. Chadman warm letter, say
ing that the State Laboratory
was no place for silly pranks and
4 that the next time Col. Chadman
made mixture of aniline, ich-
Ithyol and sulphuric acid, he
should send it to some schoolboy.
But Prof. Ell. A. LaPetoniere,
Jacksonville chemist to whom
sample was sent, took it seriously,
made very careful analysis and
reported that it was a very valua-
BILE medicinal oil and contained
the elements mentioned by the
State Chemist, as well as salt,
magnesia and phosphoric acid.