The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-25
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Please give me something Of the origin
and history OF THE SUN cholerA ,nre?
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THE SuN cholera cure and its origin
was thus described in an article printed
in THE SUI of September II, 1se2-an
interview with George Washington
Busted OF 162 East Twenty-third street,
who made the original prescription. Mr..
Busted said:
ut was in June, ls4o. In tho early
days Of the cholera excitement. that THE
SUN published the cholera mixture recipe
l sent to the paper. l prepared the pre-
Hcrlption by the advice of the Health
Offcor OF the Port and a prominent city
physician. ! had long known the eff
cacy OF the ingredients. I sent a copy
by a messenger to Mr.. Moses Y. Beach,
the publisher of THE sun, asking him to
print 1t for the benefit of humanity and
II appeared In print the next day. The
Health Commissioners adopted Il and
engaged me TO compound 1t for all the
city hospitals"
The article Itself then went on to say
THE Sun repubiished the recipe
many times during tho cholera cpl
denies Of 1855 ami 1866. All told IT
mas been published in III SUMS coll
umns over 1000 times, and here 1t is
again:
Take equal rarts Of tincture Of
opium. tincture Of rhubarb tincture OF
cayenne. spirits Of canphor and essence
OF peppermint. Mix well together. Dose
f1fteen to thirty drops in water To he
repeated In fifteen or twenty minutes
f necessary"
There was printed in Questions and
Answers Of May : last a suggestion for
so altering the ingredients named above
as to make 1t possible to dispense the
| re medy without IA voyi,t,oa .A.Gs.-..
prescription. \ correspondent then ob-
served
one dram each OF ~tincture of opium,
uhctufe or rhubarb. tincture Of capsicun
ana spirits OF camphor mixed with
enough essence Of peppermint to COM
pete three ounces woull make "A mixture
or which one toaspoonful would approx
mate fifteen drops or the old formula
and would conform to the limitation con
the proportion OF opium OF the liarri-
son narcotic law
Another modification 10 comply with
the law has been used successfully for
over "A year by otto Raubenheimer,
mar. d. OF l3Ii Fulton street. Brook
lyn. and was described last Wednesday
IN a paper read by DR.. Raubenheiner
before the New Jersey Pha r-naceutical
Association. II is:
Vol.
spirit or peppermint.
spirit or cainphor.
Tlncturc or capsicun.
Tincture OF rhubarb.
Camphorated tincture OF opium ......5
Dose; one to " tea s~poonfuls IN "A
wine glass Of water as required.
should be greatly obliged n YOU
would let me know the issues OF your
paper in which appeared a discussion Of
the immoral influences OF Defoe's Rob
lnson Crusoe." q &
In a letter to THE SvN printed Jan
uary %. 1916. George c. Bartlett OF
Tolland. Conn. denounced the classic
rs subversive Of youth. citing passages
to establish his point. In the Issue Of
January IS were printed two letters rid.
iculing Mr.. Bartlett's view. A discus
sion OF the whereabouts OF Crusoe's ISL
and ensued. Letters on the subject will
be found in THE II Of January IS. Of
February IS and Of March l..
Who was the author OF a poem called
The First Thanksgiving? J.. II.
THE First Thanksgiving" verses BY
Hezekiah Butterworth, originally ap-
pearing in the Youths Companion, may
be found in n volume entitled "Shoe-
makers Bes. Selections. No IL" issued
In 1918 by the Penn Publishing Com
pany of Philadelphia. The lines do no,
deal. as might be inferred, with the Phi.
grim Fathers. but depict scenes OF re-
joicing in Spain upon the return OF the
discoveries Of America.
have read somewhere that a Zee,
was once captured by cn%valrymen. Can
you give me the circumstances
NJ q. G.
was in the putcR.French war Of
l7e3-l7a5. The Dutch fleet was ice
bound in the Zuyder Zee when French
soldiers under Picherru entered Amster-
dam. 1t could not get away. It could not
move the French cavalry surrounded
IL and forced it's surrender.
on the Fresh Kills CStaten Island)
about n mile and n half back Of Rich
mond. on the hill. are ruins Of what the
Ineighborhood says was n Revolutionary
fort. What was its Nance II. a. NJ.
We ave not found that il had any
but Mr.. Hopper Striker Mott confirms
the neighbors' report. writing:
IF the site OF the ruins on the Fresh
Kills is the one I have In mind-on the
brow Of a steep hill where the school
house stands -thcy are the remains OF n
fort (Brltish) and are the only ones OF
a Revolutionary fort on the island. From
. this spot may be had a beautiful and ex-
tensive view"
In Questions and Answers for May rs
Y ] noticed an answer saying that Louis
James. Frederick Warde and KATHRYN
Kidder did not appear In 'Thc Tempest
Q n decade or more ago. Is II not possible
that you are mistaken. am positive
that l did see them in "rho Tempest
Miss kidder as HirHndd. Mr.. James as
P,ospcro and Mr.. Warde as Cdliban.
am doubtful about the last two roles
they may have been reversed. II was
the only time that l have ever witnessed
"The Tempest" and, not being "A studen,
OF Shakespeare's plays. ] remember
was doubtful OF the relative Importance
: OF Cdibdn and wondered that such an
important actor should cast himself for
the mountebank part OF Cdiibdn. Why
not TrincuI0 IL he desired to clown, or
1rinculois fish with "A "voice fore and
Iaft"p