Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-08-12

Potato As Remedy for Rheumatism
Is Just Legend and ExpIOdes Many
Other Similar Ideas
Medical authorities have struck
back, through the World of To-
morrow exhibit at the New York
Worlds fair, at some of Americas
favOrite medical folk remedies.
Ever worn an Irish potato for
rheumatism? Ever tied a skunk to
a stove for a cold? Chum, you
have missed prominent 1899 Amer
lean voodoo. So the Maze of Sun
erstition exhibits assure clamorine Gus
toners IN the Hall of Man at the fair.
Fersians, you learn, ate pearls for
Madness American visitors cluster adj
miringly before rattlesnakes' rattles
knotted strings for the pocket, stump
water, ground glass (for tapeworuns)
fLsh Tor brains. sulphur beads for dlph-
iberia, crushed cranberry poultice for
erysipelas, angle-worm Juice for lini-
ment-au features Of the American ex-
hibits
These fen contraptions and nostrums,
" model or hOrrendOus transparencies
highlight the most vivid medical cham
Der OF horrors since the w. @. T. u.
stopped soaring children with hobnailed
iivers. The customers love It.
we have had 10000 visitors In three
weeks, says Ralph Hitchcock, Queens
resident re-. s and director for the sponsor
IT Is the best attended exhibit in
the Hall of Man"
This box office has pleasantly stun
neu tne profession, members admit,
since the rest of the hall, the most
thronged at the fair. Is loaded with
competing and less eerie propositions.
Some Old Notions Blasted
Renowned for grisly humor. the pro-
IesSlon let loose on the myth corner.
outside, nine-foot devil wears sharks
teeth, snake. tarantula, two black
Kittens. a FUR anklet, a cracked hand
mirror for fig leaf Believe It-or-Not
columns on medicine plaster a wall
Exhibit No. / Is a reclining patient
downing q moving river OF broken bot
Ties An Illuminated portfolio gives por1-
eyed clients a view OF his stomach
where Mr. Tapeworm winks back and
remarks: This Is simply killingl"
WrongI warns the exhibit.
@. lover No. 2. toads, pebbles in
Dag, pennies for pocket. knotted string,
ct all. Do toads make warts2 A No
ana these DO not cure warts.
u. lover cobweb, spider, stuffed hand.
large wooden gerTns) can cobWebs heal
wounds? A. No. A cobweb Is a germs
playground germs shown piayine1.
Proposition lover two soldiers scar
ing each other with grenades) Fright
wall cure hiccupS. A. WronRl Soaring
Is about the most useless.
always thought It d." q lady
VISITOR remarks 70 her daughter. "We1
II does, daughter answers.
Next comes bad news, or perhaps not.
Tor expectant mothers. @. Can q moth
er influence her child's characteristics
or talents before birth?
A. An expectant mother cannot give
her child beauty or artistic ability
merely 6y viewing works OF art before
birth. There Is no mental or nervous
connection between child and mother
before birth.
just for luck the authors have pic
tured two public function sitters leer-
Ing at an arm-swinging orator. "ais
mother, says one, was frightened by
"WrOngl" The authors add prudent
All these, you are assured, are gen
timely held misinfo
Sir skunk tied to a stove comes In
The class Of beliefs that smells can
slIre. To this sponsors have affixed q
asafoetida. Open" they invite and
AXE a smell"
The reputed favorite Of Dr.. Weiss.
;hairman Of the board Of Bayer, states
Germs can be coaxed to the surface
~ spreading honey on the spine. II
he honey Is shaved off the germs win
.Ome with it,"
Underneath is the following:
Spine (section Of spine, nailed
loWn).
Honey BOTTLES Of honey.
flsnf-ff0u
Funny: "Ha, ha, ha, hal" (printed).
The most elaborate set presents un-
lappy Francis I, Emperor of Germany.
Ded With smallpox in 1865. Francis lies
here, bepOcked in red bed, under a
ed headcap. behind red curtains, in
ed-waled, red-carpeted room. The red
las doctors orders. to cure the pox.
'rancis died
Three young ladies, who otherwise
MODEL professionally, guide customers
through when requested.
Something for Sore Eyes
They don't want us TO ten them.
hey want TO see II" says Miss Lorraine
ydor, a sight for sore eyes.
They get very skeptical," says Miss
.deltne Woodward, ditto. They see
aus diyan marked for use only and
Miss Sydor has shucked all supersti-
ons, but objects to three on q match.
Iiss woodward says 1t Is bad luck for
stranger TO pass between two friends
n the street.
The show ends with a more serious
ut cheerful warning: That victims OF
reat reapers like cancer and tubercu-
isis can often be saved, II treated by
ualified medical men promptly, In
cad Of wasting precious time on nos
-1ns.
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