New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-16
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should have said third operation was
90 obviously injurious TO the patient
filed with longing and hope that IL
had TO be abandoned at once. Jugs
filled with hot water were arranged
I'm bathtub and covered thickly with
birch leaves, on which the patient
was seated. all Of his body except his
head being covered with a sheet.
Malfatti hoped for benefcent sc-
ton upon the skin and TO put the
organs into productive perspiration.
But the very opposite effect resulted.
The body OF the patient, which had
been emptied of its water by the
scarcely completed tapping, attract
ed the moisture developed by the
hath like a block Of salt; II sweiled
visibly in the apparatus, and in rev
DAYS compelled the introduction anew
of the tube into the still unhealed
puncture.
A RUDE VAPOR BATH.
The story of this sweat bath needs
TO be told of for no other reason than
because IL is the basis of another OF
the romances still current which were
retailed for the single purpose OF pre-
senting Beethoven as a sufferer from
the niggardliness of his brother Jo-
ham. On January % (the date II
fixed by a remark of Johann's in the
Conversation Book SCHNEIDER brought
word TO Beethoven that the mother OF
the singer Fraulein Schechner had sent
for him that morning to tell him about
two remedies which had proved eflca-
cious in the case of her father, who
had also been afflicted with dropsy.
One of these was juniper berry tea,
the other a vapor bath from a decoc-
ton the ingredients of which were
head of cabbage, two handfuls OF car
gway seeds. and three handfuls OIL
hayseed (Heublumen). These RENE
dies had been prescribed by the phy-
stefan of the late King Of Bavaria, and
had worked a cure in the case OF
Madame Schechner's father, when ne
was seventy years old. DR.. Maltatti
seems to have been told of these rem
edies and to have prescribed the bath,
which, it is said in the Conversation
Book. he recognized as a cure used by
DR.. Harz, the royal physician men
toned. Within day or two Scniho,
Ter notes in the book that ne hso
asked Johann for some hay, ana the
latter had replied that his nay was
not good enough for the purpose; out
the next day, seeing the hay which had
been procured from another source
Johann had said that he had plenty
of that sort and that his was dryer
Unwilling, apparently, to admit tnat
Johann might have been honest IN ms
belief that the hay from his stable
was not fit for medicinal purposes
SCHNEIDER writes for Beethoven's pc
rusal: as it not abominable that ne
is unwilling even to give hay for a
single bathl" Yet this monster OF IN
humanity, unwilling to sacrifice a
wisp of hay for a dying brother, was
at the time in daily attendance upon
that brother and had taken upon him-
eat deal of the onerous and
disagreeable labor OF the siekroom.
GENEROSITY OF THE LONDON
PHILHARMONIC.
Though Beethoven had received the
Handel scores in December, ne does
not seem to have had an opportunity
10 enjoy Stumpf's gift thoroughly
until he turned TO them for intellee-
tut refreshment on his bed OF pain.
He had signed a receipt for them IN
December, but it was not until ms
thoughts turned to his English friends
in the hope of pecuniary relief that
he wrote a letter TO Stumpf, under
date Of February s:
How great a joy the sending OF
the works of Handel, of which you
made me present-for me royal
present-this my pen cannot de-
scribe. An article about il WAS even
printed in by the newspaper, which