Year: 1875

who was not long in putting in an appear
ancc.


The next was a Turkish-bath man, who
assured me that he had had very bilious
turn year ago and had sweat them out OF
himself by taking six baths


"You see, he had, "a boil must be kept
moist and warm, and that being known
fact, why the Turkish bath is an interven-
ton of Providence for all Job-ites the world
over"


| l promised to at once call on my friend
Dr. Miller in Twenty-six street, and let him
put me through course Of sproutes." |
was deferred from so doing by friend in
the ice business, who told me that one of
his neighbors had tried the baths, and III
stead of curing him the boils came out all
over him worse than ever "And now,
said he, ''if you will come down to our ice
house and just walk leisurely around in it,
keeping your blood cool for few days,
you will find that all this superabundance
of heat in your blood, which is eyinced by
the boil now on your hip, will gradually
pass away, your boil will 60 down and you
won't have another till you get red hot
again"


This looked as reasonable as the bath
cure certainly, and I promised to be on
hand bright and early next morning and
try to freeze out my boil just as | was
starting out in the mor9ing-hadn't limped
two yards from my house-when [ was
hailed by friend, who, when informed of
my ailment and intentions, suddenly wheel
cd me about in the direction Of my house,
saying:


''Ice be blamed I'll cure you" Going
right into our dinning-room he asked for
brown sugar and brown soap then helping
me to hobble up stairs, he made poultice
Of the soap and sugar, and insisted on my
wearing it on my boil all day.


promised to do so faithfully, but after
he left me and it began to ache pretty hard
| could not help mentioning my feelings in
the old-fashionek way, and the noise | made
being heard by lady caller on my wife,
she at once said that she could relieve me
and cure me at the same time. Sending
out for raw onion, she said all / had to do
was to slice it up and lay it on my boil, and
its cooling properties would relieve the pain,
while its well-known healing powers would
effect a certain cure. This seemed very
reasonable and worth trying, and we tried
it.


Before its cooling properties = had got
fully under way | happened to remember
an important business engagement which
must be attended to, and so shook off my
doctor and onion at the same time. Re
turning home two hours later young lady
friend came to the front with five cents
worth of faxseed poultice which her uncle
always used, and he never was without
boils she felt sure that Job used faxseed
psultice. said | guessed not [ was posted
on Job all he did was to scrape himself
with piece of broken pie plate dob Ii. y;
and even when boils had evoluted up to
Isaiah's time, all they did was to make a
plaster Of figs for them. But the man who
knew the boil-business by heart was near
! by, and he gave me the surest cure Of all
cold water before breakfast.
.Drink it freely, and its action on the
liver and blood is such that it will cure you
| Just as sure as twice seven Is fourteen
And he could cure anything. He was the
only man that he had ever heard of who
could set broken ribs But broken ribs
are not boils.


[ now determined to make an inventory
of all my boil cures, and mix them together
and put on one big plaster which would
surely cure it at once. But when | came
to mix cold water and hot water, ice and
steam, faxsced and cedar berries, shoe
makers wax and honey, onions and oint-
mcnt, Indian meal and razors, they wouldn't
mix and there was no necessity for it, for
just then [ ran against a chair back, and
with one moderate-sized yell | found my
boil had wiped itself out.