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 CONSUMPTION 
 CURED 
 
 BY ONE WHO HAS COME THROUGH IT 
 
 MRS. ELIZABETH KUCHHNMASTKR, 
 
 FOREST, ONTARIO. 
 
 LAWSON & JONKS. Friiitcrs, 
 
 London, Ontario. 
 
 1897. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 My ohjcri in introducing this little volume to tlu- puhlic, is to try and 
 
 )la<v hdorc tlu- |)<jo|)If the way they arc misled in the treatiiu-nt of con- 
 
 u.uption. Previous to this, nearly all the treatment for this disease is used 
 
 wrong v\u\ foremost, placed on the from of the body of tlu' pour sufferer in 
 
 place of the hack, and everything elsi' accordingly, as the perusal of tlu- pages 
 
 I if this little volume will show you. 
 
 Knowing what I know about this disease a!ul how to manage it, for I 
 have come through it, I think I w uikl he committing a great sin in the sight 
 of my Maker, not to try and hriiig it before the people in its true simplicity, 
 when the remedies are so simi)le and so easily attained, and not far to seek. 
 
 Hoping this little volume will get into every home and prove a blessing 
 ti. every family, 1 send it forth to enlighten the people and to try aiul drive that 
 much dreaded disease, consumption, from ovir land. If the peoj)le will only 
 lake hold of this little volume and adhere to the rules laid down in it for the 
 cure, and for the prevention of that much dreaded discasi-, consumption, in 
 the course of time, our su<-cessors will not need to dread that now nuich 
 ilreadetl and too often fatal nialad\. 
 
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I.KSSONS ON HHAI.IH 
 
 CONSUMPTION. 
 
 'I'Iktc- is no form of disease of greater iiiiporUuicc in our country than 
 that \vhi<"li passes under the n.une of eonsuniption. We do not know that 
 tliere is any form of e(iiial imjjortance. It will, therefore, he wdl to consider 
 it in a few lessons, so as tf) have it before us in a good variety of aspects. In 
 tliis lesson it seems natural to look at it in the light of what is called here<litary 
 disease. No other illness is so otU-n said "to run in families," and yet, perhaps, 
 in no other ailment is the meaning of that j)hrase less undirstood. The 
 popular idea is, that some seed of disease is transmitted from parents to tluir 
 offspring, which in course of time develops itself into this form of illness. We 
 can regard nothing as farther from the truth than this, and nothing as more 
 fitted to mislead in the treatment of the malady in its tarlii-r or later stagi-s. 
 The idea fixes the attention on something that re(|uiresto he killed out of the 
 infe»:ted system, when the reiiuirement in reality is just the very opposite. 
 We shall see this more fully as we go on with our subject. 
 
 There can be no reasonable (K)ubt that certain ([ualities of j)hysicial consti- 
 tution are hereditary. The "family likeness" which is so universally obser\i(l^ 
 involves externally and inlernall)' a great deal which distinguishes one |KTson 
 Irom another. The si/e and shape of every organ in the body is affected bs 
 that which determines such a "likeness." It determines the thinness and 
 thickness of every nu-mbrani', its softness and hardness, its every character 
 istic, .so does it determine the character of texture in every portion of living 
 substance which goes to make up thi- body. Now, eminent pathologists who 
 rightly re[)udiate the notion of "seeds" of disease such as consumption, s|)f.ik 
 of "a predisposition" to such a malady. This tlu'y say is inherited. Hut the 
 word conveys no idea of an\ practical use unless it is exi)lained, and that sf)me- 
 what fully. 
 
 We are constrained to in(|uire as to what it 'I'ally is in one person 
 which accounts for his falling into consumption under conditions utider whirb 
 .mother person shows no lendenc) to do so. There are two things that 
 enable us to give the explanation which is ri'(|uired. The force of lifi' in one 
 person is not eipial to that force in another person. Take two infants newly 
 born, there is the force of lile in the one bv which it will outlive that under 
 
A LICSSON ON CONSUMPTION. 
 
 which the other will die. The cold, for iiislancc, which will kill the one ol 
 these infants will only inconvenience tin- other, 'riurc is a vital force in the 
 one nuich stronger than in the other. This difference is hereditary. It is a 
 marked difference whi< h is traceahle hack to, and even beyond, the commence 
 ment of separate' existince in thi' children. Hiit, now, this force of life shows 
 itself not only \u resisting what we call cold, hut in resisting other external 
 influeiHes hy which tlu' liodies of living creatures are acted on and dissolved. 
 
 A person with a certain amount of this vital action, for instance, will 
 briathe with health and advantage an atmosphere which will consume even the 
 outer skin of another. The memliranes of the throat and lungs in the one 
 will thrive inuler the influence of that which will melt those of the other entirely 
 away. This difference is hereditary. It shows itself in parents as compared 
 with parents, and in tlu' children of both classes. It is not a difference which 
 can be truthfully calK'd exilusively henditary, inasmuch as difference in anioimt 
 of vital force in the bodily system arises in other ways and after birth, so that 
 a child born ever-;" strong, actually becomes one of the very weakest. So we 
 know beyond all possible doubt that children born with the weakest vitality 
 arc; brought to be men and women of the most vigorous and enduring consti- 
 tutions. We take for example, a family of twelve persons — father, mother and 
 ten children. The father died of consumption. One after another, niiu' of the 
 children died of the samediseasi-. The tenth was to all a|)pearances going also, 
 but she "as taken in time, and her vital force nursed till its power became 
 ade(|uate, and now, for a number of yiars she has been a strong, hardy woman. 
 
 What was there "in the family" in this (>ase? Nothing more than just 
 such a measure of vital force as was inaileciuate to resist certain extremely un- 
 liivorable influences which were allowed to do their work in the cases of all but 
 the last survivor of the family. Under moderately favorable conditions the 
 whole of that family would have had such health that it would never have been 
 suspected that consumption had any relation to them whatever. l*'or instance, 
 emi)loyed in a wool factory, and well smeared daily with oil, not one of them 
 would ever have shown a symptom of chest disease. Or, if because of sut'fi- 
 cit nt hereilitary good sense decending from father to son, or from mother to 
 daughter, these somewhat tender people had had even a weekly application of 
 olive oil such as is used in the wool factories, there would have been no such 
 thing as consumi)tion in the family. The slender vital force would have 
 been so preserved, and, like money in a savings bank, it would have so grown 
 in amount that even somewhat unfavc^rable conditions, as those of climate and 
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 CONSUMI'TION. 
 
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 I wish to dwell upon this true idea of consumption running in families. 
 Mecau.se a slender framework, usually the most beautiful and symmetrical, and 
 iven meiitally the most desirable, is inherited, it is an infinite pity that whole 
 lamilies should be condemned to regard themselves, or to bi- regarded by 
 others as .somehow posses.sed of the taint of incurabli- disea.se. In another 
 lesson we shall show more in detail what the wasting agent and influences 
 •ire that need increased vital force to resist their action. In this, our aim is 
 to concentrate attention upon the truth that there is no good reason why 
 Uiose born with the very finest possible texture, and with slender vital energy, 
 should be regarded as retjuiring more than a very easily accessable amount of 
 uood nursing in order to their being among the most healthy of humai\ bi'ings, 
 tiiough otherwise they would be set down as belonging to consumptive 
 lamilies. 
 
 There was a time in Kdinburgli, when so far as we renumber, a medical 
 man in one of our wool manufacturing villages, observed that there were no 
 cases of consumption among the wool workers. It occured to him t(i think of 
 the olive oil with which these workers were liberally suppiii-d fVom the nature 
 of their work. Some of our highest medical men took up the idea, and we 
 know that hundreds of tender children and young people were made strong 
 and healthy by the simple use of oil in the saving of their vital force. It took 
 some little attention (more than is re(|uired to swallow a jjowder) to use this 
 olive oil remedy, and it would not hide under a few Latin scribbles, so it fell a 
 good deal out of fiishion. Hut from the experience of the writer myself, 1 
 know that nothing more is needed to banish consumption out of families, in 
 many ca.ses, than just this same olive oil. Already so many f)f those families 
 iiave all the food, clothing and comfort that is needed; but with all that the 
 \ital force is allowed to run off from their centres, through their thin white 
 skin when it might be saved by even once a weeks good oiling. One can 
 easily see when there is a chilliness or a cKvining in a child or a young person 
 and, at least, in all such cases there should be a good warm wash at bedtime, 
 and nice rub all over with sweet, fresh olive oil. 'I'his would of itself, go far 
 to put consumi)lit)n out of the family. 
 
CONSUMPTION AGAIN. 
 
 In our last lesson on the subject of consumptifjn, we consitUred tlu 
 various decrees of vital foree eharaeteri/ing various persons from their birth. 
 This K'd us to lay the chief stress upon nursing the centres of that force in 
 those who, from the very outset of their hcinjj;, have less than a full share of it. 
 We come now to quile a different as|)ect of our subject, in lookinj; at which, 
 we ari' led to think of the varying degrees of wearing force brought to bear 
 upon different persons in tluir circumstances of life. Here we have much 
 that is just as truly hereditary as wi- have in the degrees of vital force with 
 which different jjcrsons comt into life. What makes this |)art of our subject 
 peculiarly interesting is, that a child may inherit a |)la<e in socitey whi( h calls 
 for ii strong power of life, at the .same time that he is born into circumstances 
 of great hardship, or, which is worse, born into dangers arising from ignorance 
 and lu.xury of the most fatal character. But we nuist confme our views at 
 present to those inthiences that bear hard upon the tender tVame, and tend to 
 wear, or to waste it when its vital force is not of a high degree. 
 
 One of the most important influences of this nature is found in the will 
 of the individual person on whom it tells. I'Vom this will, in cases in which 
 no other influence is unfavourable, there j)roceeds that which gives ri.se to 
 exertion far beyond that of which this slender vital force is really continuously 
 capable. It is in the very nature of our bodies that up to a certain measure 
 exertion cultivates vital energy, beyond that measure exertion hinders that 
 cultivation, and at the same time draws upon the centres of that energy. The 
 resolute youth who scorns to take tiiat degree of rest which is absolutely 
 necessary to the frame which he has inherited, and continuously draws upon 
 the resources of that frame beyond its capacity of healtb.ful resistance, is now 
 a<tually consuming himself, though nothing conventionally called consu'.n|)tion 
 has as yet shown itself in his ca.se. That same consumption will, by and by, 
 show itself with perfect certainty, and |)erha|)s when the centres of force are so 
 wasted that they cannot be revived. 'I'his is no reason why the resolute 
 ardour of youth should be lightly esteemed, but only rea.son why it should be 
 directed towards resolutely resting when that is re(|uired, as well as to resolute 
 action when that is in order. I'he man who would make the most of his life 
 
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 to take advantage of opportunities of work when they occur. I5ul there are 
 other influences than that of the will in causinj^ such exertion as consuiiu-s the 
 life. 
 
 One of the next in order of importance is that damp, cold air which we so 
 often breathe in this climate. With a certain very f.ill (Kgrei- of vital force 
 one will live and thrive where those who iiave less must |.;r.idually die m con- 
 sumption. That only .shows that a .set of nerve centres p -• be so vigorous 
 that they can supply vital force faster than a very bad clitnatt n take it away. 
 It is on this simple principle that one will live and thri\e in l-gypt. who ( ould 
 not live in Scotlantl. We have <een a young man in ' '; )se f.iniil) ; iiimiber 
 had died of consnm;>*ion, showing the strongest signs of tl' ^ame disease, 
 taken from a cold, dam|) place, and shut up in a smoky, diriv iniand tr)wn, and 
 lie recovered liealth speedily, and ke[)t it too. Tlu' air was vastly purer in his 
 native village, but it was not so dry or so warm. It is not intr<(|uently thought 
 that the amount of oxygen in the air when proportionally high, makes it vi 
 wasting breath. Hut no one, we ^should think, imagines this except in < on- 
 nection with membranes that are already in a wasting ( ontlition. I he 
 amount of oxygen in any air on the earth's surface would be a bcm tit ratluT 
 than an evil to any actually healthy .set of lungs. It is the damp cold that we 
 shoultl fear the most, anfl not by any nuans the damp cold air drawn in in 
 breathing, but that abstracting from every part of the body its much needed 
 vital force. When cold, damp and keen air is breathed into bronchial tubes 
 and lungs in which vital force is already low, its natural action is to cotisume. 
 
 Let us now look at a young i)erson who is born in perfect health, and 
 nursed in the most healthy way, only having a very hne skin, and corresjiond- 
 ingly fme membranes covering all the inner surfaces. The centres of vital 
 force are perfectly adeciuate if they are not unreasonably drawn upon, only 
 they are not those of what are called the "hardiest" of human beings. Now 
 comes the (juestion of work and climate. Is this lniel> constituted frame to 
 be drawn upon by unreasonable e.xertion in c()nij)aratively slei'i)less toil, while 
 the body is ill-clad and unprotected? If so, what may be (ounled on as the 
 result? Consumption will, perhaps, have gone beyond all liimian remedy in 
 such a case before its presence is suspected. It is long after this point is 
 pas.sed that medical men are thought of in the case. And what can the best 
 of them do then, except smooth the closing stages of the all loo slujrt journey ? 
 
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 CON.'^UMITION AdAIN. 
 
 liut now, k'l us suppose" iinolhcr treatment. The inluiit is known to conic 
 ot a lincly constituted ancestry. It can easily he guessed, to say the least, that 
 its ccMitres of vital force are not those of an Alpine goat or Chamois, nor yet 
 those of a very hardy child. If this youngster is to live at all, he will need 
 to do so in this somewhat damp, cold inland home of ours. Well, well, we 
 say he must have a cap on his head to begin with. If you begin with his 
 head bare, even in winter, you may just as well go through with all the rest in 
 your own way, and take the consetjuences. If you are pre[)ared to put a nice 
 cap on his head, then make him comfortable with flannel, .so far as he needs 
 it, as we say, to keep out the cold — that is, to keep the cold, danij) air from 
 stealing away his too small stock of vital en-.-rgy. Before you put him to bed 
 have him well washed in good warm soap and water, dried, and his back, at 
 least, well rubbed with fresh olive oil. If you nurse the child, see that you 
 abhor porter, and live on good wholesome food yourself. Nothing better as a 
 groundwork than good Scotch oatmeal. As the ytnmg man grows up in 
 schooldays, let him have a childhood, as long a one and as free as possible. 
 When he goes to school, or ( nllege, or apprenticeship, don't care one straw 
 whether he takes prizes or not. It is not those who take prizes, who, as a rule, 
 shape the world's ways, or make the most of it in any way. (live your son wise 
 coutisel as to overdoing in everyway; only do not worry him with advice. 
 Drop in on him as it seems needed. Still as long as \()u can, see that he has 
 a clean and well oiled skin, now and dien at least. If he should be wayward, 
 and damage his own health, do your best to get it back again, but do not 
 condemn him too much for doing what he probably deemed the best. 
 
 So far, we sketch out the line of some useful hints. If we could only 
 make some good imj)ression as to the wise and careful upbringing of those 
 who are liable, more or less, to tall into this di.sease, it would be a truly great 
 matter. The treatment necessary for them is only gcMxl for all others. 
 It can do harm to none. ICven when one is trto far consumed to be saved for 
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 CONSUMPTION STILL 
 
 There is one aspect of what is called consumption which it would be well 
 that all studied as far as possible at the present time. That aspect is seen 
 wlien we consider the effect produced by certain drugs es|)ecially, and also 
 l)y certain modes of dealing with those slight affections of the chest, out of 
 which consumption so often comes. I'or many years calomel, or some other 
 preparation of mercury, has been the most popular drug. Now jjotassium, 
 especially its bromide, is becoming the great refuge of tlie afflicted, foi whom 
 ordinary medical treatment is called. When drugs get into the |)osition which 
 the.se occupy, the mass of people learn to use them imnunsily beyond the 
 limits of medical advice. Like alcohol and toi)acco, tliey beconu' fancied 
 necessaries of life. It is, consequently, a matter of great imi)ortance to know 
 the actual nature of their action in such relationship as that of consumption to 
 common modes of living. 
 
 Let us, for instance, take a case in which the whole of tiie tissues of the 
 body are peculiarly easily dissolved. Instead of being what is called "hardy"' 
 or "wiry", the very bones are of a softer texture than lliose of many other 
 persons. 'I'he nervous structure, in all its three great divisions of organic, 
 sensitive, antl motor nerves, is easily melted away under the action of sub- 
 stances fitted for such melting. Look at an infant of this kind of t-onstitution, 
 and notice that for some little ailment it has a calomel or potassium dose. 
 This is given on the idea that the "li(juefacient" drug shall "liijuefy" some 
 obstruction that is giving the infant trouble. There may be such obstruction, 
 or there may be none, but this will happen all the same, the living and health- 
 ful substance of the infant's body will be so tar '■li(iuified." 
 
 Into the very inmost centres of life t'nere will be a certain tlegree of dis- 
 solution of all that lives, 'i'his is the [)riiiciple on which the drug is given, if 
 it is really given on any principle at all. Hut J\ up through childhood aiul 
 yoiuh this .same principle is followed, and it is surely not to be wondered at if 
 the result should be a wasting, sooner or later, of one or othi-r of the \itallv 
 im{)ortant parts of the iKxly so dealt with. There can be no doubt that it 
 seems to save mothers and others a great deal of what is called "trouble" to 
 •jecure temporary relief by means of simply giving something that can be swal- 
 
12 
 
 ANOTHER LESSON ON TONSUMPTION. 
 
 lowed, even if it is ncct'ssary to hold the nostrils till it is sent down the throat. 
 It is even somehow much more "orthodox" to give drugs, such as those we 
 have in view, than to give a little hot water. It is easier to get a young gentle- 
 man or lady to swallow any number of pills, powders, or tablesi)oonfuls of 
 mixtures, than to take half a dozen spoonfuls of this "nasty hot vater," or to 
 he rubbed with this "shockingly greasy oil I" So they go on swallowing 
 fashionabli' drugs as they wear fashionable dresses, however ugly and absurd 
 the fashion may be. But all this has to be paid for at a terrible price, ('ertain 
 hardy in<li\ iduals live in sjjite of it. Those in the community who know what 
 really good health means, escape such treatment ; but many thousands go down 
 to an early grave. No doubt our inland home has a climate which is trying on 
 all tender frames; but that is next to nothing in its fatal results to the power- 
 ful system of error in medicine to which we are referriuL'. 
 
 their f 
 than a 
 
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 charac 
 
 tender 
 
 gross 
 
 keepiii 
 
 alion t 
 
 on whi 
 
 should 
 
 front V 
 
 against 
 
 sleiidei 
 
 There has been a meilical man of more than average abilit\, and in hrst- 
 rale practice, heard to say lately : "That if all the drugs in the world were 
 annihilated, the gain would far exceed the loss." Hut even he had probably 
 scarce a notion of the vast extent to which health is undermined by "liciuefy- 
 ing" agencies. Professional men know a little of what tomes under their 
 notice professionally, but they are in many cases profoundly ignorant of what 
 is going on ;ill around them. W'e observed lately, that a minister had said 
 in a presbytery gathering engaged about intemi)erance, "that certain educational 
 inlhiences would make all drunkenness cease as they had done with swearing." | lectors 
 Here is a man who evidently fancies that swearing in profanity has ceased | only 1h 
 among the jjeojjle. That is a man with the care of the souls in a whole |)arish 
 who knows as little of their real state and habits as if he lived in the moon ! 
 If that man only spent half an hour in a single workshop, or even at the kit- 
 chen fireside of some of the farm houses, he would hear swearing enough from 
 the lips of women as well as men, to make the hair stand on his head. If he 
 cared to listen to even the boys he passes on the strei-ts he would hear a pro- 
 fusion of matiMV |)rofanity from very yoimg swearers. Hut he traxels fuslclnss, 
 wears his dignilv superbl)-, fancies he knows everything, but is more ignorant 
 of tlu' ri'al state of men. women and children as they are, than almost any 
 other man, e\ce|)t men of his own stamj) and class. 
 
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 thing, ; 
 
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 soft fla 
 
 keej) tl 
 
 as faiK' 
 
 This s; 
 
 tween 
 "frien< 
 mercy 
 double 
 be slu 
 
 The)' who know the actual facts of social habit, know that the amount of 
 "li(iuefying", that is, lifeconsuming, substance whiih is sold as medicine, is 
 sim|)l)' incredibk'. It is consecjuently of vast im|)ortance that all who really 
 care for the health and life of others slunild be alive to such a fact, and set 
 
 T 
 
 used ill 
 chest" 
 back ( 
 I am c 
 and CO 
 eschew 
 ct)ld ai 
 will no 
 kings .1 
 
the throat. 
 s those wf 
 un^ ^fontlc- 
 poonfuls of 
 atLT," or to 
 swallowing 
 iiul absurd 
 L'. (Certain 
 know wiiat 
 (Is i^o down 
 is tr\ing on 
 the |)owL'r- 
 
 ind in first- 
 world were 
 (1 probably 
 )y "liiiucfy- 
 inder tlicir 
 ant of what 
 cr had said 
 educational 
 ii swearing." 
 has ceased 
 diole j)arish 
 the nioon I 
 I at the kit- 
 nough from 
 L-ad. If lie 
 hear a pro- 
 Is hrst-chiss, 
 n\- ignorant 
 almost any 
 
 : amount ot 
 
 medicine, is 
 
 who really 
 
 "act, and set 
 
 CONSUMPTION .Sill,!,. 
 
 >3 
 
 tiieir faces and hearts against that which is a thousand times nu)re consuming 
 than any other cause of consumption. 
 
 'I'hen we have modes (if treatment which remarkably corrcspontl with the 
 I haracter of fashionable drugs, l-or e.\am|)le, a porous j)laster is |)laceil on a 
 tender chest. 'I'his is, j)erh;ips, just as g(X)d an example as we can take up of 
 gross mistake. The idea is that of keeping in the heat, and conse(iuently 
 keeping m the vital force of the lungs and breathing organs while the perspir- 
 ation escapes through the pores of the {blaster. Now, the n)()ts of the nerves 
 on which this vital force of all these organs sj)ring are at the back between the 
 shoulders, and not in the front (if the chest at all. I'o put the plaster on the 
 front whik' the back is e\j)osed is like making the windows of a house secure 
 against the thief, while the doors are all left open. ( onsider a person with 
 slender structure going on swallowing *Mi(|uefying"" drugs so a.s to melt the 
 wry life centres of his body, with a jjlaster over the parts thai ]u\d no such 
 thing, and those parts which certainly do need it. left exposed. 
 
 The best j)orous plaster of which we can well conceive, is a piece of good 
 loft tiannel, new, or nearl\' so, placed uj) and down the whole back so as to 
 keep that thoroughly warm. Hut this is used on an idea too profound for sucli 
 as fancy that a thief ma\' come in at a window, but certainly never at the door. 
 This same sort of thing follows us all through such fashions as "chest j)r()- 
 tectors," "bosom friends," made of hare-skins and such material. If it could 
 only lie understood that the "bosom" most valuable in such relations is bi-- 
 tween tlie shoulders, at tlu' back, s(jme good, perhaj)s. would come of tln' 
 "friendliness" so cultivated, but that most important of all j)arts is left to the 
 mercy of the atmosphere, livvn a "Highlaiul cloak" is made so as to button 
 double in front, but to be only single o\er the reall}' important part that is to 
 be sheltered from the dreadful storm. 
 
 Then, if there is just a lit.^ giving wa\ of prejudice, and oli\c oil is to be 
 used instead of potass, or some similar poison, the oil must be rubbed "on the 
 chest" that is. on that side of the chest which scarrelv reeds it, but not on the 
 back of the chest, at which, almost exclusi\ei\. the lile heat is stolen away. 
 1 am certainly not pointing out any errors of treatment that mav not be easih 
 and conveniently remedied. It is within the reach of very humble abilitv to 
 eschew all "melting" drugs, and to make sure to have the best protection from 
 ct^ld and damp on the back rather than on tlu- breast. Then consumption 
 will not likely commence in the stomach as it so often does, nor yet in the 
 lungs as it doi's also, but not so frequently. 
 
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 ' 
 
 14 
 
 ANOTHER LESSON ON CONSUMPTION. 
 
 I have other aspcrts of this same disease yet to consider. There are 
 those who fall before it who are not affected by li(|uefyiiig drugs, nor yet hy 
 such treatment as I have described. They are, as I was myself, exposed to 
 circumstances over which they have no control, and their life action is taken 
 away before it is imagined that they iieed to be looked after at all. In my 
 present lesson my anxiety is chiefly to impress the minds of those who have it 
 in their power to do their utmost to put away errors that destroy so many 
 jjrecious lives 
 
There arc 
 nor yet hy 
 
 C.\jK)SLd to 
 
 on is taken 
 ill. In my 
 who have it 
 u)' so many 
 
 15 
 
 DECLINE. 
 
 When we come to study what is taken for actual consuni[)tion, we meet 
 first with a state of health in which there is no real wasting of any of the hodily 
 organs. There is only a failure of the centres of vital action in their momen- 
 tous functions of supplying all the other organs with life. Such cases as are 
 illustrations of this occur in very favourable circumstances, but, as a rule, when 
 young people have been subjected to greater toil and privation than their 
 nerve system is capable of sustaining. They have, for instance, imagined that 
 if they were to get on in the world ihcy must sleep very little silting till two, 
 and getting up again, j^erhaps, at five in the morning. The)' are placed also 
 where far too little covering is deemed necessar) for their beds, and far too 
 low a temperature for their rooms. Their food is not ecjual to their wants ; and 
 that on which they can keep most easily awake is i)referred to that which may 
 best supply the nourishment that is needed. Under such treatment as this it 
 is perfectly natural that the very foundations of vitality sh(Hild become incap- 
 able of sustaining the superstructure. 
 
 Though there is no wasting of the tissue of any organ, and no symptom 
 of anything but weakness over all, 'there is decline marked in ever\thing. 
 Sound as he will, the metlical man hears nothing to indicate that there is any 
 disease going on, nor can he tell why there is such weakness and thinness of 
 tlesh on the bones, neither does any of them tell, for they do not test in a 
 j)roper manner, it is a great mercy if, in such a case, lie is wise enough to 
 give no medicine whatever, and only to leave the patient alone so far as 
 ordinary physic is concerned. There has been a case of this kind in the 
 hands of one of the first of our medical men, and he gave absolutely nothing 
 in the way of medicine. Rest in superabundance, plenty of gooil blankets, 
 olive oil, rubbing all over the body pretty often in the course of the week, 
 plain but good food well cooked, and time. These were his remedies, and 
 though the sufferer had declined to a mere skeleton and no one expected re 
 covery, full recovery was secured, and robust health was the issue. 
 
 Now, there are cases of this kind in which there is bleeding from the lungs 
 because of sheer weakness in these (jrgans. \'et there is nothing beyond 
 weakness. The blood escapes through membraner, that are not broken, but 
 
A LESSON ON DECLINE. 
 
 w'LakciiL'd, so lli;it they allow ihc Ijlood to oo/c through. Most people con- 
 clude when such a syrnjjtom appears that hlood vessels have given way, and 
 that deatii is certain. Hut it is not neces.sarily so. 'I'here are ([uite a number 
 of cases on record, in which men are now in good lualth wlio had declinetl 
 till the hlood came in this way. If they only escape that medical treatment 
 !>)• which weak life is made greatly weaker, and get rest, with nursing and good 
 food, patient"^ in whom dicline is very marki-d, and I)Io(k1 has come freely, 
 will gel all right in tiiiu'. Not a few who have been known to be given up as 
 hopeless cases, are now healthy and strong. There was with them a decline 
 of vital forix' so serious that it seemed as if the vital ganglions would never rally. 
 lUit there was no irreparable organ wasting, and the vital centres were nursed 
 into full vigor again. 
 
 The greatest danger escapetl in such cases, was that iinolved in drug^ such 
 as act onl\- in the wa\ of lowering the vital llame. .\lcohol, for exa )\)\l\ on 
 which, we are told, so man\ live ''for weeks," and even "for months,' must be 
 sacredl}' avoided if declint.' is to be reversed. Ever)- atom of it is against the 
 patient's recovery. It is put, lor example, in the shapi' of rum and milk, and 
 giwn to the declining sufferer. If he recovers it is in spile of this. Nothing 
 can \)v more certainl\- established than the truth that alcohi^l lowers life, and 
 ne\er raises it. It is narcotic in the smallest doses just as it is in the largest. 
 A small iiuanlity of it, in milk, has been known to close the scene in a few 
 si'conds after it was gi\en. In ihal case life was low, and the drug just made 
 it a little lower, so that the lam]) went out. Claret is a faNorite form in which 
 jilcohol is given in decline. It is always in sj)ite of such giving that life is 
 s|)ared, if it is so. We succeed with cases in which medical men who give 
 alcohol ha\e not the least idea of succi'ediiig : we see men and women raised 
 from their beds in three weeks or so, for whom such men predict month;; of 
 helpless weakness, and most of this is accounted for by the fact that we keep 
 all forms of alcohol away. 
 
 There are other drugs which we keep eciually away, all the t"orms of mer- 
 cur\ anil potass, as well as all the vegetable poi.sons. When there is very little 
 wrong, and plenty of vital energ\ to sjjare, such substances give relief, and suit 
 la/.v dispositions: but when life is really at a low ebb in its inmost centres, 
 they hasten its end; that is all. When the medical man has gone so far that 
 one or more of the natural functions are suspended, and he imagines that only 
 some "obstruction" has occured, he will order some "Ii(|uefying'" drug to re- 
 move this fancied "obstruction." The verv first teaspoonful goes a good way 
 to increase the general weakness; and as the stuff is taken day by day, an 
 
 iniount 
 )iirianci 
 .ise as I 
 annot i 
 utter tl 
 Ihey rei 
 ition of 
 
 A r 
 
 ng heali 
 u rong. 
 U eakne 
 lot act > 
 nan sho 
 is know 
 )rescribi 
 i\ritings 
 
 here at 
 larenls, 
 
 low, e 
 Vom bei 
 
 Noi 
 
 iig bv 
 
 |uantitii 
 
 I teacup 
 
 )nce a 
 
 •linegar i 
 
 ■ io(l\ wit 
 
 li bedtii 
 
 >trong bl 
 
 .;moi1 oil 
 
 K' diffiii 
 
 'locking; 
 
 his, witi 
 
 \ill work 
 
 n lesus 
 
|)foplf con- 
 11 way, iiiid 
 L' a iiumhcr 
 id declined 
 
 I treatment 
 g and good 
 onie freely, 
 given ii|) as 
 
 II a decline 
 never rally. 
 
 ivere nursed 
 
 nrxLiNE. 
 
 w 
 
 1 drugs such 
 jxa iple, on 
 IS,' must he 
 I against the 
 d milk, and 
 s. Nothing 
 ers lite, and 
 the largest, 
 ne in a few 
 i just made 
 rm in which 
 4 that life is 
 n who give 
 •/men raised 
 month;; of 
 Kit we keep 
 
 rnis of mer- 
 
 is very little 
 
 ief, aiul suit 
 
 lost centres, 
 
 J so far that 
 
 es ihat only 
 
 drug to re- 
 
 a good way 
 
 by day, an 
 
 iiiiiount of mischief is done that can never he undone. I leiice it is of such im 
 iortance that i)eoj)le should understand for themselves the real state of e\ery 
 ase as far as they possii)ly can. It is of no use to say that ordinar) persons 
 annol understand such cases, for thousands of mothers know them iiifmitely 
 letter than medical men in general tlo, and they act ui)on their knowledge too. 
 riiey require only to he helped in such understanding, !)}• having the explan- 
 iiion of that which they often see, hut cannot eNi>lain, pointed out to them. 
 
 A mother, for e.\am|)le, has a son or daughter sent home to her in declin- 
 
 ng health. Why should she not he enabled to judge for herself as to what is 
 
 urong. There has heen loss of ap|)etite, and of all interest in active- |)ursuits. 
 
 \\ eakiiess and languor have stolen over the body and mind. The bowels do 
 
 lot act well, and other functions are sus[)ende(l. It is all will that a medical 
 
 nan should be consulted; but it is not well that he alone should be regank'd 
 
 IS knowing the nature of the (ase, antl that all should hi' swallowed that he 
 
 )iescribes. There is nothing more certain than that mtdical nu'ii in their 
 
 writings and conversations speak of cases in which the\ make fatal mistakes. 
 
 There are scores of instances in which a very little knowledge on tlu' |)arl of 
 
 larenls, saved patients from death through such mistakes. At least, when lili' 
 
 s low, everyone who has charge of such a life should know enough to keep it 
 
 torn being put further down. 
 
 Now rest of body and mind is easily understood. I'leiity of warm cloth 
 
 ig by day and night is I'asil)- understood.. Easily digi'sicd food in small 
 
 uantities, and not too far-between the meals, is also easily understoxl. Half 
 
 I teacupful of hot water alwa\s before taking focnl, is also easily understood. 
 
 )iice a day rubbing the back all over for two minutes or so with good white 
 
 linegaris not very difficult. 1 )rying this off, and rubbing gently all o\cr the 
 
 )ody with good fresh olive oil, can be managed easily, 'I"!ien once a da\-, say 
 
 il bedtime, it need not be difficult to pack the lower part of the bo(l\ in a 
 
 Irong blanket fomentation all round, for forty or fiftv minutes, and to give a 
 
 .;<)od oil rubbing when that pack is taken off. If the feet are cold, it neeil not 
 
 ic difficult to recUlen them in hot water, rub them with oil, put on good cotton 
 
 lockings to sleep with, and so mend that mailer. .Some such trealnu-nt as 
 
 his, with good hearts- cheiT of thi' soul, as well as those things foi the body. 
 
 work wonders in reversing a decline. The glorious gospel of (lod's love 
 
 M 
 
 ,V1 
 
 II lesus will alwa\s supph' life for the lu-art, and that is not costly either. 
 
i8 
 
 CONSUMPTIVE FEVER. 
 
 The s)nipt()ni which is tlic most serious of all in chest disease, is the 
 rapid |)ulse. It ma\' he that in a particular case there is really little or nothing 
 to indicate that dangerous disease has set in, if you keep off this oni' thing, thai 
 the heart heals at the wrist a hundred and twt-nty times in a minute. 'rhi> 
 mu)' so far yield to cooling api)licalions round the heart itself, so that it will, 
 at tiiues, come down to eighty-five heats, hut it spei-dily rises again, and defies 
 every effort \()U can make to keep it down. It is a needful imjuiry t)\- which 
 we search for the e\j)lanati()n of this raj)id pulse. I'erh.i|)s we ma\ not he ahli 
 to throw ver)' much light on this suhject. and it is most ini[)()rtant to tr\- to do 
 so. 
 
 One curious thing is that there is a loss of strength all o\er the hodv and 
 _,et an a|)pearance, at least, of a great increase ol force in the heart's action. 
 The state of things in relation to the heart, is like thai when alcohol is used. 
 That drug lowers life always, yet the heart's heat is increased wlu'U it is taken. 
 No one can douht that ini\i-r\- organ of the hody there is weakness when 
 what is called "the hectic fe\er is going on," \xt llu' the heart '> action is greath 
 increasetl. So no one, who has examined the recorded facts, can douht that 
 alcohol imiformh' reduces \ital force, yet its administration restores the working 
 of the heart. How can these things he accounted I'or? We think the\' nun 
 he so in this way: when the hiood, from an\ cause, fails to he of that (|ualit\ 
 which it recei\es in the lu'althy huigs. it produces an incri'ased effort of thi 
 heart to drive it through these organs. That effort shows itself in the mon 
 rapid i)ulse, or in the increased force which the heart's adion indicates. Theri 
 is no increased strength given to the heart. It is onl\- maile to act mort 
 urgently I))' the (lualit)' of the hlooil which is j)assing through it. 
 
 N\'e know that alcohol lessens the amount of oxygen in the hlootl. St 
 does the loss of cells in the wasted lung. The hlood in hoth these cases, i 
 more venous and less arterial; it is therefore fitted to ini'rease the heart's effor 
 St) as to remedy its condition, hy driving it faster through thi' amount of luni 
 that is left to purify it. So long that there is life lelt in these centres tha 
 supply the heart, its i-ontractile force will he exerted to give the life (jualit] 
 to this circulating stream, and to give that amount of such (luality as is re(|uire( 
 
 T 
 
 lie a \k 
 happen 
 hetwee 
 to act .- 
 in this 
 ering o 
 which 
 
CONSUMITIVH FEVER. 
 
 T9 
 
 (or lieallh. Hut it is easy to uiKlcrstaiul that such exertion wears out in a 
 short time time all that life whiih there is to he so drawn ui)on. 
 
 Such an e.\j)lanati()n as this, places before us the foundations of some 
 lessons of great |)ractical importatice. I'or instance, there are certain drugs 
 which jjoison the heart. These will, in certain ([uantities. reduce sensii)i\' the 
 rai)idity of the pulse. Antimony, for example, will do so. Digitalis, also, will 
 do the same. So with other poisonous substances when taken into the stom- 
 ach. I^ven in extremely sniall (juantities they will do this. But they reduce 
 nule. Thi^l the action of the heart by so far deadening its nervous energy. They do not 
 lessen the need that there is for increased rapidity and force of circulation, 
 ihey only reduce tlie vital force which there is to give such action. 
 
 sease, is the 
 e or nothing 
 c thing, that 
 
 that it will. 
 1, and defies 
 r\ b\- which 
 , not be abli 
 to tr\ to do 
 
 lie body ant 
 cart's action 
 ohol is used 
 11 it is taken 
 ■akness when 
 ion is greatlv 
 n doubt that 
 s the workin 
 ink they ma\ 
 r that (jualitx 
 1 effort of th 
 f in the mor 
 ;ales. 'I'herc 
 to ait mori 
 
 le blood. S( 
 these cases, i: 
 e heart's effor 
 iiount of huv. 
 se centres thu 
 he life (jualit 
 • as is recjuire 
 
 The giving of such tlrugs might be illustrated in some such way as this : 
 A (lood is coming in on a low lying village, and all the villagers are summoned 
 lo shut rt out. There is great stir in the village. Some one professes to allay 
 the excitement by killing half the |)eople, so that the)' shall cease their share, 
 at least, of the hubbub. 'I'here is no effort to lessen the flood or to hel|) the 
 workers, but a poisoning of them so as to lesson their working. It is ol 
 inmiense imj)ortance that men should pontler the truth which 1 am thus stat- 
 ing in my own imperfect wa\ . If poisonous substances are em|)loyed to ri'duce 
 the rapidity of the j)ulse. there can scared)' be a doubt that their effect is, not 
 to render such ra])i(l action of the heart umiecessary, but to render it im- 
 possible, by reducing vital action in the life centres. If this same i)oisoni)Us 
 agency is employed to I'ombat every symptom, it is, I think, ini|)ossible to 
 doubt that unless there is superaboundirig energy in the constitution, the 
 patient must die of the drugs, even if he did not die of the disease. This is 
 ->peci;'.lly clear, in \'iew of this rapid pulse in consumj)tion. If it is persistently 
 lowered in raj)idit)' b) |)oisonous substances, while nothing is done to lesstn 
 tile fever that t'auses it, the result nnisl be that the jjoisoning will is>ue at 
 Icnjith m the destruction of life in its verv fouiKlations. 
 
 This urges upon us the momentous ([uestion as to whether there cannot 
 l)e a better way of lessening this consumj)tive fever. If, in the casi.' whi« h we 
 happen to have in hand, there is still life enough left to turn the balance 
 between disease and health, in favor of the latter, we should think it possible 
 to act so as to turn it. If the case is one of the kind which we ha\'e in \iew 
 in this lesson, it will be well not to be anxious in the first inslanci' for tin- low 
 eringofthe pulse. It will be better to see whether we ma) in)t lessen that 
 which is calling on the heart to beat so rapidly. 
 
20 
 
 A IJ:sS()N on COXSl'MI'TIVK FKVKK. 
 
 Wi- may promote llu- purilyin^ of tliu 1)1()(»(1 l»y ricslKnin^i llu' skin lor 
 one thing. A sponj^ing all oNcr, under the hcdclotlRvs, withj^ood uhili' vinegar, 
 will ha\c a good elTeit in this diree'ion, as it has in all lexers. 11 lIu' .^kin is 
 nia(k' to act so a^ to lighten the eireiilalion of a considerable <iiiantity of waste- 
 mattiT, tlu' |)iilse will lower itself" at onci'. then a good large hran poultice or a 
 hot hag, with moist cloth |)laced over the ki<lne\s. will go a good ua\ to make 
 them act more frei-l)' and relieve the circulation more I'ully. 'Iliis, too, will 
 lower the ])ulse, if it is not too hot when a|)plied : test tin- luat 1»\ tr\ing it on 
 the hack of your own hand, if nou can stand it there it will not hi' too hot for 
 the patient. ICvery such application as this, lighti-ns the work called lor Irom 
 the lu'art's action, and so moderates that action. 
 
 Then something may he done in the waNofthat which is to he turned into 
 hlood. The acid in an orange, or, if ver\ much diluted, in .i lemon, when 
 taken as what is called a cooling drink, and nioderatelx', imparts a healthier 
 character to the food and through that to the hlood. 'I'hat again lightens the 
 heart":; work, and lowers thi' pulse too. .\gain xou may hel|) the circulation 
 and so lighten the heart's work, by prett)' strong fomentation of the feet and 
 k'gs, and at the same time cooling cloths all round the u|)per |)ari of the hody. 
 In this way you lake heat from where it is likeh to he sonuwhat ahundant, 
 hut you give it where it is not unlikely to he deficient. I»\ tlu' careful use of 
 fresh oil, too, you can keep what advantage nou get in tlu'se ways. Now thi-re 
 may he actual organic diseast' of the lungs, and it may he remoxed. This has 
 been done so that the ca\ities ha\e been filled u|) and healtlu' tissui' has even 
 grown roimd and enclosed substance, which, had it gone on growing, would 
 have caused death. This has betwi (liscoN'cred in the examination of persons 
 after death from other diseases in after \-ears. If \ou can onl\- be kept from 
 ruinous drugs, and have a little real lu'lj) to the labouring heart, much more 
 may be tlone than is imagined bv lh:)se who look on the surface of all such 
 matters. 'I'he expense is not great, (lod works with simple means, and 
 speciall)' blesses that which suits the poor as well as the rich. 
 
lu' skin lor 
 itc vinegar, 
 
 llu- skin i:. 
 itv <it wasU' 
 oultici-' or a 
 ;i\ lo Miaki' 
 lis, loo, will 
 trying il on 
 
 too lioi lor 
 L(i lor Ironi 
 
 • lurncil into 
 •nion, when 
 a healthii.'r 
 lightens the 
 (_• eireulalion 
 the feet aiul 
 of the body, 
 at almnilant, 
 a refill use of 
 Now iht-re 
 Tliis has 
 sue has even 
 )wing, would 
 n ol i)ersons i 
 )e kept from i 
 , nnich more 
 e of all sueh 
 means, ant! 
 
 INFLAMMATION ON THE LUNGS. 
 
 A great many li\es are lut short !))■ what is called inllanmialion on the 
 lungs. It is not a disi-ast- that ought to have sU' h fatal roults. It would not 
 ha\e them if it weri' at all rightly handled, it s one of those stalt'S which are 
 lioth highly dangerous in themsehcs, and yi-t manageahk' ii. a high degree if 
 the right means are used. 
 
 It ma\ he well, at the outsit, in c;)nsidering this statt' of inllanuuation, to 
 try to give some i(k'a of tln' a<'tion of the hri'athing organs, csptciall} so far as 
 the lungs themsehc's are conrrriud. To do so. we ma\ Ixgin with the remark 
 that a strong xoice, or i'\en a strong ca|)acity of hreathing. docs not ncccssarilv 
 impl\ strong lung>. It is the diaphragm and muscK's of tlu' chest that draw 
 and dri\e out tlu' air used in llu' \oice or in hri'athing. and if these muscles 
 are strong, though the lungs are weak, there will he a strong voici- and also 
 strong hreathing. We see a Noung man with every i'\idence of a |)owerful 
 chi'st, and of great muscular strength altogether, laid down helplessly ill hy a 
 failure of tlu- lungs. i'l\en when he was at the worst, there was no la<k of 
 power in the nuiscles of the chest which were lifting powerfull)-, hut in a gri'.it 
 measure iii vain, so far as getting air into the lungs was concerm-cl. 
 
 The lack was in the lungs themselves, which were allowing tlu' hlood to 
 How in antl to remain gorging the vessels so as to forhid, in a great measuri', 
 die eiitraiu'e of the \ital air re(|uired. When all is going well, the air \i'ssels 
 of the lungs on one side, and the hlood vessels on the other, keep time, so to 
 s|)i'ak, with the motions of the hreathing muscles; this is allowed on good 
 authority. So also is this that as the diaphragm closis upward, and the 
 muscles of thi' chest press inwards, so as to e.\|)el the hnath that has got 
 charged with carbonic acid, the hlood vessi'ls pre|)ai"e on their side to recei\f 
 the blood which is in need of the o.wgi'ii that should meet it in tlu- ne\t breath. 
 'I'lu' air vessels also prepare to open to that air, when tlu- n,.iscles e\|)aiid the 
 s|)ace in which the lungs act, aiul allow that air to How in. The nionunt that 
 s|)ace is expanded, blood and air tlow in and meet so as to exchangi' elements 
 and pronu)te the progress of life. 
 
 Now, we are taught to look at the slate of the lungs wliich produces in- 
 flammation. In this condition, instead of acting as 1 jia\e described, the 
 
22 
 
 A I.KSSON ON INII, ANIMATION ON TUK LL'NC.S. 
 
 ttlllOS 
 
 '■\rll.ll 
 llinrol 
 
 liim ri 
 111 sue! 
 il'lVrts 
 
 vessels of tlu- luiij^s i^ivi' way to tlu- pnssurc of ihi.' hloo*!, and fail to opi'ii to 
 
 tin- air in a surticii-nt (U'^rfi-. Wlu-n tlu- i?illaniniation is i-xtrnsivr, tin-) tail 
 
 almost cntirtl) to opi-n to that air. If you can listiii with your car closi- to 
 
 the chest over one of the lungs, you may i)e utterly unaMe to hear tin- sound 
 
 of air entering the lung as you easily hear it in the lu-alth)' state. 'I'lu' la( t is, 
 
 it (joes not inter at all. Tlu' hlood has filled the vessels and dois not K-avi' 
 
 tlu-ni so as to allow tlu' air space to enter. The lung liiconus swollen in such 
 
 a case, and |)resses u|)()n ntrvi's in its neighbourhood so as to ( ausc great pain iiioin i 
 
 on the drawing of a hreath especially, and terrible distress on anything like |>ip his 
 
 coughing. Under the shoulder-blade that pain may Ik- so intense as to lay the 
 
 sufferer perfectly prostrate and hel|)k'ss, yet in agony. lUit all Miat ha.s occured 
 
 is nothing more than this, the vessels ol the lungs have lost their elasticity and 
 
 allow themselves to be swollen and gorged with blood, which at other times 
 
 they would send on its course in the general circulation. I'here is no loss of 
 
 power in the external muscles of breathing, but there is sad loss of elasticity 
 
 in the vessels of the lungs themselves, and if that is not soon restored, life will 
 
 be I'Xlinguished for lack of the e.xchange between the usid u|) gases of the 
 
 vital system and the atmospheri'. 
 
 Tt is not only the swelling of the lungs which causes pain in such a case as 
 this. The stagnant blood soon sets up the fiery action of its destructive com- 
 bination, and this gives great distress and brings about imminent danger. 
 This spreads it.self through the whole circulation, and fever is soon the result. Hut 
 all this is to be traced to this one condition of relaxation in the \essels of the 
 lungs. If these only admitted and ex|)elled the blood and air as the)' usually 
 do, nothing else would be wrong. That my reader ma\' bring this home to 
 himself in the most homely way, he has only to take a few good long refreshing 
 breaths, and consider what goes on in his own breast while he does so. The 
 diaphragm or muscle which forms floor, so to speak, of his chest j)ressed down- 
 wards and leaves a space above for air to enter and fill. The muscles that 
 spread themselves over his ribs on either side and lift these in a lull breath, 
 lift them now, and make room for more air than could be admitted l)\- the 
 mere action of the diaphragm. These two actions of the chest cause the air 
 to flow in by his nostrils, or mouth, as it may be, and the sj)ace within the 
 outer chest is filled. ■> 
 
 lUit now, if he is in good health, something much more interesting takes 
 place in these long breaths. His lungs have o|)ened and allowed one set of 
 cells to be filled with blood laden with a j)oisonous gas, and in neeil of vital 
 air. They ha\e at the same lime, ojjened their air cells and allowed the 
 
 the \e! 
 
 it 
 
 not ha 
 be the 
 icting 
 iicular 
 
 U) 
 
 In 
 appear 
 H'fore 
 liese w 
 \lr ha^ 
 condit' 
 of nee 
 withoi 
 at all, 
 lor ilh 
 degri'c 
 rase ; 
 which 
 he org 
 ases t 
 ive w; 
 
 In 
 1 ii])al)K 
 lot at ; 
 ungs: 
 I is (III 
 
c.s. 
 
 INII.AMMA'riON ON THE I.UNGS. 
 
 «3 
 
 1 to opi'M to 
 
 VI', tlu-y tail 
 
 car closr to 
 
 r the sound 
 
 Tlu' tact is, 
 )cs not K'iivf 
 [)llcn in such 
 sc ^YL-M pain 
 nylhin^ like 
 iis to lay tlu' 
 
 has occurcd 
 ■lasticity and 
 
 other times 
 is no loss ot Ik 
 i of elasticity 
 )red, lite will 
 
 jfases ot" the 
 
 itmospheric air to nuit that lijoodand to carry off its poisonous gas, ^'ivin^; in 
 .xchangi- its o\ygen. If it is in line iVcsh air that he draws his hrtath thus 
 ilinrou^hly, it sends a tV-clinj^ ot new lite all o\tr him. and at the sanu' nionient 
 makes him leel that he Iosin a load that would dej)ri'ss him sadlv. Now li-t 
 him ri'iiiemher this, that it' his lung's relax so that the Mood uori^i's the vessi-ls 
 m such a way as to shut out the air tVom the cells through whosi- walls it vitally 
 .ilTi'cts the circulation, he will draw in the same hreath and set leel no hiMietit 
 Irom it. lie will also soon teel a burning lever coursing his veins and firing 
 lip his hrain. Wt there is nothing wrong hut that one thing ot" relaxation in 
 tlu- vessels of the lungs. 
 
 It is important ti; ' how this ma}' havi' been brought about. It mav 
 not have been so bxansdiing acting <lirectly on the lungs. 'I'hese may onh 
 be the weak |)oints in tlu' luan or woman, as tin- cast' ma\ be. If so. a causi' 
 acting on tin- person in a Nory general wa\, ma\ account perfectb' tor this par- 
 ticular effi'ct. 
 
 such a case as 
 tructive com- 
 inent danger, 
 le result. I Jul 
 vessels of the 
 s they usually 
 this home to 
 )ng refreshing 
 loes so 
 )res.sc 
 
 muscles that 
 
 a full breath, 
 
 II it ted by the 
 
 . cause the air 
 
 ce within the 
 
 In this lesson we are thinking chielly of the cases of young men who 
 appear most healthful and strong, yet die of inflammation on the lungs even 
 before that is developi'd in consum|)tion. Now. here wo shall sav is one of 
 ihese who has got himself dix'iiched in rain or in water, oiu- wa\' or tlu' other. 
 Ill' has to s|)end a long time, perhaps, in a railway train, or in some inacti\e 
 condition. The vital energy of his whole system is drawn off till, as a matter 
 of necessit)', it ebbs all o\or. and ebbs tar enough to lea\o his shallowest |)arl 
 without its suppl\'. That >liallowest part happens lo be his lungs, not his chest 
 at all, an\- more than his legs or arms. I'o see what hai)|)ens, you might \dkv 
 lor illustration a glass case filled so l"ar with a good varietNof insects of \arious 
 
 .'s so. The I , ,. "^^ . 11, 7- • • 1 ' , , , , ■ 
 
 |<lcgii'es ol power to resist cold; let a stream ot ic\- air lie passed tlvough this 
 
 ,'s.sed down- ' i • 'i ,• ,i • . -n i i i / .• -^ - . ■ ■ ■ 
 
 I rase ; whicli ot tliese insects will hecome helpltss Inst? (.i-rtamlv tlu' one 
 
 which happens to be most dependent on a lair sup|)l\- of heat. .So it is with 
 
 ihe organs of the bod), and of one body as comjiared with another. In all 
 
 ases there is one organ which must, from its very constitution, be the first to 
 
 ;ive way. 
 
 cresting takes 
 
 ked one set ol 
 
 need of vital 
 
 id allowed the 
 
 In the cases under consideration, one lung is simply the ])arl of llu' body 
 ■a|)al)le of bearing in the least degree the abstraction of vital energy. It is 
 lot at all nt.'cessary that this abstraction should take place directh- from the 
 ungs; it geiu'rally takes place as a general abatement of \ital l"orce. Indeed, 
 I is dilhcult to think of it as taking place locally and directi)-. No doubt cold 
 
-'4 
 
 A LESSON ON INFLAMMATION ON TUl^ LUN(;S. 
 
 air in a (lanij) state passes into the lung with every breath, in certain circuni- 
 stances, l)ut that air is very considerably heated before it reaches the lungs, 
 and if the geni'ral supply of strong heat is good, it more than makes up lor 
 anything that may be done by the mere breath that enters the lungs. When 
 the whole surface of the body is made to throw off heat, and in lliat the vital 
 energy that passes with it, there must be a vastly more important drain going 
 on, and reaching the weak part, whatever that may be. 
 
 All this throws most iiujjortant light on how the disease in hand is to' b'. 
 treated. One very riarrow point presents itself on the surface, and it is not 
 without its importance. The fire and fever whicii have set themselves up, call 
 for attention at the outset: they must not be by any means thought of exclus- 
 ively, \c't they form that narrow point to which the most sujjerficial observer 
 may be e.\i)ected to look. If the (\ise is a very simple one, that is, if the in 
 Hammation in one lung is the only important synijjtom, you may do all that i.-- 
 necessary by simply cooling down the inflammator)' heat that has arisen. Il 
 all the other organs are so strong, and now so full of eiKTgy, though they had 
 bi'en chilled severely, that they will readily send an abuiulant supj)!)- of vital 
 force to the weik lung as fast as you make way f k, by taking off the inflam- 
 matorv heat, then you need nothing but cooling in orckr to effect a perfect cure. 
 
 There has been repeatedly cases of this character. Young strong men, 
 whose lungs were their weak part, had got under inflammatory action in one 
 or both of their lungs ; an abundant suj)ply of vital energy pervaded all [he 
 rest of their s)stenis. Von could safely draw on their general store to any re 
 (|uired extent. So 've have merely got two good towels and plenty of cold 
 water. We have wrung out, fokled, and gently pressed o\er the affected lung, 
 one after another of these cooling com])resses, till all distress was actually 
 ri'tuovi'd. Nothing else has been re(iuired. Such cases have been treated by 
 bleeding from the arm, and the congested lung relievt'd, onl\- at the expense 
 of long weakness afterward; but the persons had sufficient energ)' to stand even 
 the drain of bleeding, and blistering too. They had conseciuently a great dea' 
 more than enough to enable them to stand the very slight drain of merely 
 cooling dc!wn the inllammatory fire of the diseased organ. 
 
 I hit it is far from well to be prepared only for such cases as these. The 
 supi)l\ of vital energy is generally much too low for ireiument by cold alone. 
 There generally needs to be, at least with our population, on tln' average a 
 suppiv >f hiMl. and in that of \ital energy, more than that which is drainetl off 
 in cooling the lung, hence you must foment as well as cool. This i-an be done 
 
 effectiv 
 warm l 
 only it 
 ing of 1 
 I hi' fee 
 1(1 wer I 
 When 
 poultic 
 in cool 
 
 If 
 he ver) 
 Durini; 
 able to 
 more c 
 from a 
 or degi 
 inomei 
 ing to 
 briefly 
 
•rtain circuni 
 K'S the lungs, 
 makes up (or 
 jiigs. When 
 that the vita 
 t drain goini 
 
 * 
 
 liand IS to be 
 and it is not 
 ;elves up, eall 
 ;lil of exeUiS- 
 ieial observer 
 t is, if tlie in 
 do ail that is 
 as arisen. I 
 )ugh they hat 
 uppiy of vital 
 ){f the inflani- 
 .1 perfect eure. 
 
 g strong men, 
 
 action in one 
 
 •vaded all thi' 
 
 ore to any re 
 
 plenty of cold 
 
 affected lung, 
 
 was actually 
 
 Jen treated by 
 
 t the expense' 
 
 to stand even 
 
 ly a great dea' 
 
 rain of merelv 
 
 INFLAMMATION ON THE LINOS. 
 
 25 
 
 ( ffectivelv in various ways. Oil the feet and legs well; then wra]) them in a 
 warm fomentation, but take special care that i*^ is not uncomfortably warm, 
 niilv it must be warm enough to give a sense of help, and to balance the cool- 
 ing of the cold Cloth over the inflamed organ. When you have used this to 
 the feet once or twice, it will be well to j)lace a large bran poultice across the 
 lower part of the back, taking care again, that this is only comfortably hot. 
 When you have had the benefit of this once or twice, you may place a similar 
 poultice between the shoulders, but this is only after you have so far succeeded 
 in cooling down the inflametl lung, or lungs, as the case may be. 
 
 If this treatment is really well carried out, all evil effects of the illness will 
 he very soon removed and strength will not be very long in being fully restored. 
 During the whole of the treatment, it will be well to watih as to what is agree- 
 able to the feeling e)f the sufferer. The very nature of the system involves 
 more or less of an index to that which is healing, in the niceness which is felt 
 from all that is in the right direction. It is not only that a certain treatment, 
 or degree of treatment, comforts, but that it comforts because it l-icals. The 
 moment you do just the right thing it is accepted as such, exi)ressly in the fei'l- 
 ing to which 1 refer. Keeping this in view, and following out the lines I have 
 hriellv sketcheil, you will not do so in vain. 
 
 ^ these. The 
 
 by cold alone. 
 
 the average a 
 
 is drained off 
 
 s can be clone 
 
2(y 
 
 BLEEDING FROM THE LUNGS. 
 
 One of the most alarming illnesses, and one occuring not infre(|uently in 
 such a climate as ours, is found in serious bleeding from the lungs. 'I'his 
 comes generally so suddenly, and is in itself so \ery distressing to those wIki 
 witness it, that it is of the very greatest importance that as many as jjossihlc 
 should know exactly how to ap])ly an effective remedy. The usual idea of it 
 is the breaking of a blood vessel, but this idea is in very man\- t^a.ses incorrect. 
 In these cases the blood rather "sweats" from the limgs rather than flows from 
 any one considerable vessel that has been ruptured, and the di.Ni.'ase is easily 
 overcome. It is very generally regarded as a sign' of hopelessness in a case of 
 chest affection, when blood appears in considerable quantity, but it is not 
 necessarily such a sign. 
 
 An excellent authority says: "Hemorrhage from the lungs l)\- exudationl 
 
 rareh- i)roves fatal of itself, though at times the amount of blood lost is ver\| , 
 
 ,. • , iirds 
 
 considi-rable.' A certam doctor (luotes the case of a patient who lost oml, , 
 
 -111- lAactn 
 
 hundred and nmety-two ounces of blood ui twentv-lour hours M^^\ recosered.I., 
 
 • 1 • • - , • • ' • 3 ''''^ ''*- 
 
 1 mention this be(\uise it is ot such inmiense importance that relatives aiuii , 
 
 neighbours, who are at hand when a person begins to throw up blood, should 
 
 not be frightened away from doing what is needed to reliexe him by unfounded 
 
 .Si 
 akes e 
 
 good 
 omes. 
 lid \)\ 
 
 lious 
 u-se a 
 hen il 
 
 Tl 
 
 acred I 
 uess a 
 am on 
 light, 
 robabl 
 ke ves 
 f the ( 
 m\ no 
 
 Til 
 
 ante( 
 
 leal as 
 
 icked 
 
 alarm. There are certain states of the body in which a \er\ little stress wil 
 
 cause such a sNiiiptom as that of bleeding from the lungs, and no harm will , 
 . . ' . , , , ...... Inied) 
 
 follow if this is met with a j)ro])er remed)', and especiahy if it is met without 
 
 an}' great delay. This is not K'ss true that the vomiting of blood will come oi 
 
 in certain cases of wasting of lungs, and j)ro\e a fatal s\-mptom. lOven ihj , 
 
 mil for 
 
 ■^ tluve o 
 
 these cases it is not the bleeding that proves fatal, but that which has brouuhtj , 
 
 . fiial. . 
 
 on the bleevling bv reducing the contractile power of the small blood \essels.i , 
 
 . . 3\( nil; 
 
 or eating in upon one or two of larger dimentions. 1 
 
 w 
 
 I -I) w 
 
 I'or e\am|)le, in the case of a particular jjerson there is a general tendencx 
 to slackness in the blood vessels; this shows itself sometimes in swelling of th(. 
 face, hands, feet, or other parts of body; it characteri/es the lungs as well an- 
 other parts. Tlu- vessels of these do not contract so firmly as could be wished. 
 
 an 
 
 d so tend to get o\erloailed with the circulation. 
 
 If 
 
 )ntra( 
 ■act lil 
 
 •ruecf 
 
 jsseis 
 
s. 
 
 nfru(|uciitly in 
 
 lungs. 'I'liis 
 
 to those who 
 
 TV ;is j)ossil)lc 
 
 luil ick'ii of it 
 
 iiscs incorrect. 
 
 lan Hows tVoni 
 
 i^t.-ase is easily 
 
 ss in a case ol 
 
 hut it is not 
 
 BLEKDINC; FROM IHK LUNdS. 
 
 27 
 
 Such a person, we shall say, overstretches just a little, and tlie overstretch 
 
 iikes effect at the i)ack part of one of the lungs. Some time after hv ^pits up 
 
 good deal of i)loo(l, and feels more or less sensihle of the part from which it 
 
 )nies. The idea tliat a blood vessel has burst gives rise to exceeding alarm, 
 
 1(1 j)rol)al)ly two medical men are soon in attendance. The case is too 
 
 ( rious for one to have the responsibility. To us the amazement is that both 
 
 use are so helpless. They prescribe some astringent mixture for the stomach 
 
 hen it is far away from that organ where the evil lies. 
 
 The patient lies on his i)ack, perfectly still, for dear life. He is kept 
 acredly ([uiet, but the wonder of wonders is that no one seems to know or to 
 iKss at anything by which hv may have instant relief and be jjerfectly safe to 
 urn on his side, or to lie in any position that may be most comfortable. One 
 night, as it were, see the part from which the blood has been oo/ing, and 
 irobably is oo/ing still. Vou may see, too, that it is oo/ing from small hair 
 ke vessels that are slack and need to be tightened so that no such ([uantity 
 f the crimson stream may gorge them. How is this to be done so that good 
 \k\ no harm can possil)ly come of the process. The answer is ea.sy. 
 
 s by exudation 
 ()(l lost is ver\ 
 : who lost ontl. 
 111(1 recosered.l 
 t relatives aii(i| 
 
 The nervous system, of which the nerves of these small vessels are a [)art, 
 ■(■(Is to be stimulated ; in other words, its \ilal action needs to be increased. 
 \actly the ()[)])osite effect which alcohol produces ncvds to be produced. 
 hat relaxes nerve substance in e\ery case --it never does otherwise. Hence 
 
 ir least alcohol in such a case as this is directly the opposite of that which is 
 
 ) blood, should! .. 1 t. • 1 » ^- r r ^ .• i\- w r 11 1 1 
 
 anted. It is destructne 01 force, not stimulative. We tall hack on moist 
 
 rat as cur sheet anchor, and at once we have the feet and legs of our patient 
 
 1 e ^ ess '|;j(l<L'(l nicely in a small blanket soaked and wrung out of boiling water. This 
 
 I no harm wilU i • '. r . 1 n ■ •* *i \ »i rr • 
 
 1 niedy is not lar to seek generally nor is it costly. As s(jon as the sulferer is 
 
 lomfortable in this strong fomentation and the heat has a few minutes, perhaps 
 
 1(1 will coiiu' oni ,- . . , . ., ,• • ,, 
 
 giree or lour, to i)ass over the general system, anoth(,r (|uestion arises. How 
 
 ^lall we now take advantage of the new power brought into the ner\es of the 
 
 eh has broiiLiht] ,, 1 • ,1 1 ' ,^ • 1 1 » .• 1 . .1 1 1.1 
 
 '^ i|i:all vessels 111 the lungs so as most ([uickly to tighten them and expel the 
 
 blo(jd vessels.j , r 1 1 1 r .1 * •. 5 ti i 
 
 3\i rcharge ot blood, sending that on its j)roper course .-^ i he answer is here 
 
 Im) very easy 
 
 ■neral ti'iidcncx] If a surface is cold, and you apply cold to it, the vessels do not sensibly 
 
 swelling of the )nlract ; when cold it is comparatively dead, and ilead matter do(.'s not con 
 
 imgs as well a^ ,i(t like the living by the application of cold. But if a surface is hot and 
 
 DuU\ be wished.! )iged with blood and you bring cold to bear ujjon it, the contractions of the 
 
 •ssels is instantaneous and striking. Have your hand, for example, heated 
 
28 
 
 A LESSON ON BLEEDING FROM THE LUN(»S. 
 
 in hot water and matlc red with the blood that rushes into it, when in th 
 state apply eold to a single finger and it becomes white at (^nce. The vessc- 
 are contracted and the blood expelled from them. Well a|)j)ly this same trii 
 to the gorged part of the bleeding lung. 'I'he whole nervous system has g 
 fresh action from the strong fomentations on the feet and legs, and you take 
 moderate sized towel tightly wrung out of cold water and folded in four, yo 
 place this over the part of the chest in which the sense of sorenes.r, or th 
 feeling of deficiency, whatever that may be, is felt. Press the towel gently wii 
 a true nurse's pressure, in which the soul seems in the arms aiul hantls. In "'.^'' 
 few moments this cold will have reached the oo/ing surface, and relief will 1 '""?>' "^^' 
 e\])erienced. (Continue the cooling api)lications until all pain and uneasine.> 
 is gone. No more blood will come. No harm will follow in any form, U 
 you have poured no jjoisonous substance into the stomach ; you have done ii 
 damage by blistering any part of the surface, you have only added vital fon 
 to the nervoi.s system, and made the relaxed vessels contract where they h 
 got extended and inca|)al)le o\' sending their contents onward in the circ:ulatioi 
 
 mht, oi 
 •i|uired 
 ill nee( 
 peal t 
 lould i 
 urishii 
 
 Sue 
 
 lllOUS 1 
 
 itient. 
 his is s 
 
 Th( 
 
 If the doctors are profoundly ignorant of what you have done, they wi 
 be rather astonished that their remedies have taken so speedy an effect, ai 
 they will c(jnclude that the case has not been very serious. \h\l all that m;i ''^V '**-' 
 be allowed to i)ass without remark when you have the great satisfaction 
 knowing that the sufferer is relieved, and that if the same [)rocess is continu 
 for a short time, there is not very much reason to fear an\- return. There 
 no reason wh\- a case of this kind sIk^uIcI not be perfect!}' cured. I have bet ^' -^ '^"-' 
 told that a ruptiuvd \essel in a lung cannot heal, because of the continuoi 
 nH)\t-'mcnt of the part ; but the notion has no foundation in truth. I'ro\isi( 
 is made for healing in a moving lung just as in an\thing else, so long as fre 
 ner\e action reaches it, and that action can be utilized as I have shown. 
 
 mguagc 
 le purp 
 L't no g 
 
 •> no on 
 
 ling of 
 inedy 
 ill liste 
 
 )n, anc 
 
 Now comes the point of t iking the legs of the patient out of tlie li 
 blanket. Before you do this dry the chest all round and rub it nicely wi 
 warm olive oil. IMace a good ])iece of new fiannel, if nou Ikuc it, round tl 
 
 Be) 
 
 icli me 
 
 in see 
 
 mielim 
 
 Icll to 
 
 irir tor 
 
 patient there, 'i'hen take the legs and feet out and (lr\' them thoroughl '^^'ble 
 
 Kul) them gi'ntly and well also with warm olive oil. Put on a pair of sc 
 cotton stockings, and let the sufferer ri'st. S(]ueeze an orangi: in a ti'acupl 
 of wati'r, adding sugar enough to make it palatable, and let him drink this 
 he wishes something to drink. 
 
 We shall assume that this has ha|)|)ened in the morning, and that n 
 further bleeding has occured. Let something of the same kind Ite done 
 
 IN be 
 
i(«S. 
 
 in.EKDINC; FROM THE LUNGS. 
 
 29 
 
 It, when in tli 
 
 The VCSSc; 
 
 this .sumc trut 
 system has g^ 
 and you takt' 
 c(l in four, yo 
 ioreness, or tl; 
 >\vel gently wil 
 d hands. In 
 id rcHef will I 
 and uncasine 
 n any form, i( 
 ai have done n 
 ;lded vital for^ 
 where they ha 
 the circulatio 
 
 done, they w 
 y an effect, an 
 Uit all that m; 
 t satisfaction ( 
 jss is continui 
 turn. There 
 1. I hav(.' hei 
 
 the continuo 
 uth. Provisic 
 so lonif as fri'^ 
 \c shown. 
 
 out of the 111 
 il) it nicely wit 
 \e it, round tl 
 leiu thorough! 
 :)n a pair of s( 
 ;e in a teacup! 
 lim drink this 
 
 iuht, only for half an hour instead (jf a whole one, which may have been 
 (|uired at hrst. Once will do the second day, if all goes well, and the third 
 ill need only once to finish with. If bleeding returns at all, it will he well to 
 |)iat the process then; hut it will not likely do so. Hot food or drink 
 lould he avoided, but it is not necessary that it should be cold. I 'lain, 
 lurishing material, not in large ([uantity, will do best. 
 
 Such has proved a |)erfet:tl\- successful treatment in bleeding from the 
 
 iiigs. The greatest difficulty to be overcome is the superstitious dread of 
 
 ling anything in such a case unless you have a doctor, and the equally super- 
 
 iiious idea that you must follow what he ])rescribes even if it shoukl kill the 
 
 itient. What is the use of calling a doctor if you do not follow his directions ? 
 
 lis is supi)Osed to be unanswerable. We venture to reply to the unanswerable. 
 
 'I'he true medical man will tell you what is wrong ; he will do so in simple 
 iguage, perfectly intelligible to the ordinary mind. If he talks gibberish for 
 ie purpose of baml)oo/,ling you, he is worthless, dismiss hiiu at once, you can 
 t no good from him. Hut if he is a true man, he will tell you what is wrong 
 no one not trained as he has been will possilily be able to tell you. He 
 lay be mistaken, no doubt, but he will not usually be so. And it is surely a 
 iiig of great use to learn what is wrong, even if you caruiot be told how to 
 •inedy it. You lua)' be able to find out the remedy yourself A true healer 
 listen to your suggestions and give effect tf) them. .Some first-class (but 
 ny are few) physicians will ad()j)t instantly a suggestion from a common per- 
 il, and Ldor\- in the cure that is the conse(iuence. 
 
 Beyond all question, it is of use to call such a man, and there are a few 
 eh luen among the doctors ; men who really li\e to heal, and whosi: delight 
 in seeing sound healing done by anyone. Such men ha\'e hard work of it 
 luetimes because of their brethren. It must soiuetimes be dreadtui for such 
 I'll to see patients killed by ignorance, \et compelled b\- eti<|ui'lte to hold 
 uir tongues. Not that they alwa\s do so, but the}' liaxf to try as much as 
 )ssil)le. Well, we need not [)tnsue that furtlnT. .\[\- [iraNer is that this book 
 i\ be useful to many poor sufferers and also to those to whom they are dear. 
 
 ig, and that 1 
 ind l)e done 
 
■^^^smmmmmmmm 
 
 A DRY, HARD COUGH ; OR COLD SITTING DOWN, 
 
 11(1 the; 
 
 is oiil] 
 
 III lowed 
 
 H conic.' 
 
 (1 and I 
 
 )t" the c( 
 
 The changeable character of the climate in which we live, in this inlan niUter ( 
 home of ours, gives commonness to what is called a cold. Hence the expre „gins t( 
 sion, "a common cold." Mistaken treatment, or the want of any treatmeii 
 when such a cold has been caught, leads in many important cases to that col 
 "sitting down," that is, without any apparent intention of rising again. 
 
 At the outset it is well to refer to a symptom with which almost everyor 
 is more or less familiar. i'hat symptom is called a dry, haul cough. It is ] 
 this form that the cold sits down. It may not keep this character, though 
 refu.ses to rise and leave, but it is in this form that it first of all makes i 
 ([uarters good. This has a very intelligent meaning. If the cold soon rise 
 it does so by the cough loosening and ceasing to be dry ; if it does not rise, 
 continues long in the hard, dry state. This cough is the natural effort to n 
 the meml)r-.K'S of the air vessels of whatever irritates. All that is reciuired i 
 cause a cough is to irritate any of these membranes. If the irritating cause 
 loose on the surface of the memJM-anes, the cough readily throws it off, and tl 
 irritation ceasing, the cough ceases ; but if the irritating object adheres m spi 
 of any amount of coughing, that coughing continues, till, tor the time, tl 
 nerves irritated are exiiausted. 
 
 In a temporary cold, the accumulated mucous is loose on the surface 
 
 and is easily coughed up and got rid of. In a cold likely to sit down it is n 
 
 so, if even it is there at all ; the irritation is rather from tiie state of the juici ^'k-''' 'i^' 
 . , I 1 :i.i.. K.. ,r.>. ,;a ,u 1 m the i 
 
 \>r and 
 a used 1 
 las cont 
 ■^ onlv t 
 Dree in 
 icing re 
 
 An 
 
 n the v 
 
 ome se 
 
 ut of tl 
 
 ase, ho 
 
 medy 
 
 No 
 ard. ' 
 11 that ( 
 our ch( 
 ougli tl 
 Hack. 
 
 Si 
 
 or of ".he nerves in the membranes, and so cannot possibly be got rid ot 
 i.rlrng. The inllammatory heat set U[) in the small blood-vessels cau 
 V.' :.l irritation and dries up what would moisten the surfaces. This cann 
 * • \.-' rid of by any amount of coughing, and hence the sufferer coughs ai 
 cuii-l.> again, night and day, in a very distressing manner. It may be tli 
 there is nothing serious, but this distressing cough for a long time, and hen 
 nothing is done to remove it, at least nothing that can touch it in reality, 
 
 as to have that effect. . ^ 
 
 ly. A I 
 
 If inHammatory action is set up, so as to swell the lungs and press upt , going 
 
 some important nerve, the pain which this causes leads to severe measun luny W( 
 
 i> not 
 
 on nov 
 
 ctter, a 
 
 l)e, or 
 
 stress 
 
 »'ugh, 
 
 oubt tl 
 
DOWN. 
 
 , in this inlan 
 m:c tliL' Lxpr 
 any trout men 
 ;cs to that col 
 again. 
 
 A DRV, HARD ( OUGH. 
 
 Imost L'veryoi 
 ough. It is i 
 icter, though 
 )f all makes i 
 x)ld soon rise 
 loes not rise, 
 ral effort t(^ ri 
 
 iml tiiese are apt to i)e sucii as will leatl to still worse conse(|uences. Hut if 
 t i^ only the dry, hard cough that is all tlie apj)arent trouMe, it is a[)t tt) be 
 illowed to go on. If it is allowed to do so, it is not difficult to see how it 
 K comes bye and bye a sitting-down cold. The liner vessels are gradually injur- 
 (1 and even destroyed by the inflammatory action and the wearing inlluence 
 )f the cough constantly going on. The wasting of these gives rise to irritating 
 natter on the surfaces of the membranes and in the air vessels. When that 
 figins to be coughed uj), the cough may sometimes loosen, but not so as to 
 
 >(• and leave. It is not a healthy .substance that is coughed up, but the waste 
 aused by diseased action that is beginning to destroy the organs in which it 
 las continued so long. If this still goes on it will end in consumjjtion, or if it 
 s only temporarily relieved by bleeding, blistering or opiates, and the general 
 
 rce in the bod\' is reduced, without the inHammatory action in these vessels 
 )eing removed, the I'ase will get beyond all ..ure. 
 
 ritatmg cause 
 ■s it off, and tl 
 adheres in spi 
 )V the time, tl 
 
 Anyone who has had much to do with this trouble, knows that it is rarely 
 
 ! the very early stages of such disease that relief is sought. It is only after 
 
 j'ue serious damage has been done, — only, too often, after complete cure is 
 
 lut of the (juestion. Hut it is well to be ready to face the tlifhc-ulty of an)' 
 
 Lt is refiuired I ase, however great that diftu-ulty may be. It is best of all to be ready to urge 
 
 emedy on Lhe sufferer while it is not yet too late. 
 
 Now it is easy to know when a cough, coming after a. chill, is dry and 
 lard. \'ou have cough and cold, but not in the form of stuffed nostrils, nor 
 1 that of a running nose, nor in that of (juantities of thickened mucous 'in 
 our chest, which is readily coughed up and got rid of. It is only a dry, hard 
 jn the surfac(.i*'"f^^'^ '^'^'^'^ distresses you. There can be no difficulty in understanding such an 
 t down it is mf'^^''^- I'e'rhaps you use some cough mixture containing chietly some opium or 
 ite of the iuici ^''^''' 'larcotic substance, antl that soothes the irritation foi a time, by deatleii- 
 ig the tender nerves ; but the dr)', hard I'ough returns and soon shows that it 
 as not risen to take final leave. There need be no mistake as to \()ur posi- 
 iin now. A week or two passes over, and your cough is worse, rather than 
 etter, and still dry and hard. It is c\identl\- froir. something in the wind- 
 i|)e, or a little further down ; it is ckarl) in the breathing organs that the 
 istress is arising. Still, after even two weeks, there is no loosening of ihe 
 luigh, nor any cessation of the dry irritation. There can be no room for 
 '>ul)t that you are in a state of body that should be attended to v>ithout de- 
 IV. An inflammatory action that will do serious damage to the vital organs 
 and press upi ; going on, and ought to be made to cease. If this has gone on even for 
 evere measun luny weeks, the case is all the more urgent. 
 
 )e gt)t rid of 
 J-vessels causi 
 s. This cann 
 .■rer coughs ai 
 It may be th 
 ime, and hen 
 1 it in reality. 
 
32 A IJvSSON ON COUdHINC,; OK COLD SlITINCl DOWN. 
 
 I low then should yoii proceed? The Inst tiling; is to secure an increase 
 of good vital eni;rgy to the general system. It is well to begin this in a cusi.' 
 that has gone on to full sitting down in such a -old. with the feet and legs. 
 On the fust evening at bed-time, rub these gently with warm olive oil, |)ack 
 them for three-(|uarters of an hour in a good large blanket fomentation, o|)en 
 them out and dry well ; oil again; dry that off, put on a pair of cotton stock- 
 ings and j)Ut the patient to !)ed. This will have a good effect to begin with 
 and will moderate the cough probably from the I'lrst. In the morning after 
 this evening, it will be excellent to adopt a hydropathic remedy called the 
 "damp envelope," which is simply an ordinary towel wrung out of cold water, 
 tightl)' wrung out and put tightly all round the back and breast of the upper 
 part of the body. This is covered well with a dry towel, and the patient 
 snugly tucked in so as to keep all comfortable. The enveloi)e is soon heated, 
 but it is well to let it have a full softening effect on the skin before it is 
 changed. After three-(|uarters of an hour or so, this is taken off and the 
 |)atient rubbed gently all over with good olive oil ; that again is dried off, and 
 got)d ordinary clothing put on. The second evening it would be well to pack 
 in the warm soapy l)lanket. I never saw anything that had so ])<)werful an 
 effect in such cases as this. A small single blanket, as soft as can be had, i> 
 wrung out of .soap suds, and the patient is tightly packed in this from head td 
 foot, for an hour before bed-time ; a good thick sheet is put over, and the bed 
 clothes nicely lucked in all round : after lying in this for an hour, not more 
 nor ([uite so much, if any discomfort is caused, the sufferer is taken out 
 s|T()nged quickly over with warm water, dried, rubbed with oil if there is n( 
 fexerishness, and allowed to go to sleep. Next morning the towel envelope 
 shoidd be repeated. 
 
 I am giving these directions, assuming that the cough is one which ha 
 been sitting down for a considerable time. The third evening )ou should put 
 a large bran pcniltice, as hot as to be comfortable, at the back, between the 
 shoulders again, an hour or so before bedtime. While the patient is lyinj; 
 (juietly upon this, it will be well to press a towel, wrung out of cold water, anci 
 folded say four-ply over the front of the chest, and specially over the parts fron 
 which the irritating feeling seems to arise. \Vhen this has been done as far a; 
 to give some comfort to the patient, it is well to take it off, and rulj with olivi 
 oil. Always dry that off, not wash it off, but dry it with a dry cloth, as tha; 
 gives a much greater .sense of comfort than leaving it wet. 
 
 It is not necessary as a rule to carry this treatment much further. Tht 
 cold rises even before so much as this is done. As to medicine, a teaspoonfvi 
 
)0\VN. 
 
 ; an iiKTcasi 
 his in a case 
 ;ct and legs. 
 \c oil, j)ack 
 tation, open 
 otton stock- 
 [) htgin with 
 lorning after 
 ly called ill 
 •f cold water, 
 of the ii{)|)cr 
 
 the j)alicnt 
 soon heated, 
 1 before it is 
 
 off and the 
 Iried off, and 
 
 well to pack 
 
 powerful an 
 an be had, i 
 from head to 
 and the bed 
 iir, not more 
 is taken out 
 if there is no 
 )wel envelopt 
 
 le which ha^ 
 )u should put 
 , between the 
 tient is lyin 
 lid water, ant 
 he parts fron 
 :lone as far a; 
 ul) with olivi 
 cloth, as tha 
 
 A DRV, HARD COUGH. 
 
 ^^ 
 
 of vinegar of s(]uills, taken in a little hot water twice a day, has a good effect 
 usually. I have seen it have such an effect within half an hour after the first 
 of it was taken. Something like this same amount of boiled liijuorice and 
 linseed has also a good effect ; but if the outward remedies are well applied, 
 they usually do all that is reciuired. 1 have found it good also to take sips o\ 
 hot water frecjuently, when the cough is troublesome, during the day. When 
 taken every ten minutes it is wonderful what this does in such ca.ses ; this will 
 ure the cough itself. 
 
 further. Tht 
 a teaspoonfu 
 
34 
 
 INJECTING MORPHIA 
 
 I feci that I would not be doing my dut) to ihosf into whose hands thi> 
 little hook may fall, without giving yuu ni) e\|)crien(c with Morphia, or Mor 
 phinc as my medical attendant wah pleased to call it. 
 
 sn mj 
 </r ev 
 ,ureat 
 opera 
 know 
 
 I 
 
 Some thirteen years ago last Sej)teml)er. I had been ailing for some titm 
 and one afternocjn I was taken very suddenly ill with ;i i ain at the bottom o 
 my stomach ; it was so bad that I could neither sit, lie nor stand with comfort 
 in other words, I was in jjcrfect agony. 'I'he ph)sician was sent for, and when 
 he arrived he said it was inHanunation of the leading tube from the stomach 
 to the bowels. He went right to work and injected what he called morjjhini 
 through the skin in two places. It gave me sy)eed>' relief at the time, but u 
 long continued trouble afterwards. My opinion to-day is that he killed some 
 of the nerves, for whenever I would get tired or weary, that s\n)i would fee 
 just like an old sore when I woul' bend, or if m\' clothes would rub over it 
 and continued so until 1 got a remedy that brought it to a head, and then 
 broke out and ran matter for over three years, just where he injected the 
 morphia. At first when I began to use the reiiu'dy, it would break out luv 
 run, and then heal up again, and in a few days it would break out again, bu: 
 latterly it ran ct)nstantly for about one )ear and a-half, and now I am thankfu 
 to be able to say that it is all healed up aiid i)erfectly well, and does no; 
 
 iirni ( 
 hat o 
 hing 
 h.it w 
 \rong 
 his (1 
 le ne: 
 i,is be^ 
 adly d 
 iifferei 
 le(] 
 lost d 
 
 II imi) 
 
 bother me any more now. My opinion is that the old nerve rotted out and 1 ia\- as 
 raised a new one. S(j I think that thirteen years of trouble and suffering, foi 
 what my Hrm belief is now. with the exjjerience I ha\e of heat and cold, couh 
 have been cured in a short time with a cold cloth. 
 
 nje( 
 ood 
 Diedy 
 
 relief is given at the exj)ense of life itself, it is well that the patient should kno 
 
 that his ease is purchased at such a cost. Then if present comfort is procure 
 
 by means that ensure a greater measure of distress in the future, it is best tha re hi.'- 
 
 this should be clearly understood. .Ml such knowledge on the part of a suffer 
 
 er tends to wake him up to inquire as to whether it is not possible to relie\ 
 
 him on some better principle. 
 
 iport; 
 )ur ca 
 
 Yc 
 
 lows 
 eniei 
 
 This has opened my eyes as far as disease is concerned, and as it is alwax 
 of importance that the afflicted should, as far as possible, understand the prin 
 ciples on which relief is given them in their afflictions; if for instance tha n\ dj 
 
 ntly I 
 itlica 
 
 lSll)ll 
 
 :'pose 
 ler ca 
 
INJKCriNC, MOklMIIA. 
 
 .vs 
 
 )sc hands lhi> 
 rphiu, or Mor 
 
 for sonic tinu- 
 tlu' l)ott()m oil 
 
 NVc shall sec the torcu of such remarks in ronsideriiij^; the relief }^i\cii in 
 s.» many cases hy the injection of opium in one form or othir, under tlie skin, 
 (ir (Ncn mort.' tleepl)', to the sensiti\e ner\es, as mine wire, when ilu'se gi\e 
 ureat pain. Many of my readers will l)e only too well ac(iuainted with tin; 
 operations which I have in view. Others will hi- all the lieltir to lia\e some 
 knowledge of their nature, in the way of anticipation. 
 
 It should then he clearly set down that the injecting of mor|)hia or other 
 (irm of opiimi, so that it shall reach the nerves, can have no other iffi'ct than 
 lat of deadening those organs for the time. All pain is the result of some- 
 ng wrong, and affecting the nerves of sensation, so as to induce us to put 
 
 l1 with comfort.lli.it wrong to rights. 'l"he injection of morphia does ncjl in any ( .i>.e right the 
 
 Uir, anti when 
 111 the stomach 
 died m()ri)hin 
 
 he killed sonx 
 sj)()t would fee' 
 lid nil) over it 
 ad, and then i 
 le injected thi 
 break out am 
 out again, bu 
 1 am thankfu 
 , and does n( 
 olted out and 
 
 rong; at the very utmost it only silences the nerves which indicate tlu' wrong. 
 
 This drug, while it does not cure or put the wrong right, causis such injury to 
 
 le nerve system as constitutes, of itself, a very serious disease. .\ nerve that 
 
 le time, but a i.c^ been silenced by means of opium, when it returns to ai ti\ity, does so in a 
 
 idly cHsordered condition. 'I'his has the effect of adtling to the distress of the 
 
 iilferer, often very seriousl)- ; the addition too, gcjcs on increasing, as the 
 
 mile operation is repeated. It is thus that disease takes a mental t'orni ol'llu' 
 
 lost dreadful character. The poor sufferer is made to enduri' horrors that 
 
 ■\er arise except through the use of some nerve destroying agency. ISut the 
 
 important matter here is to know how to act when it is proj)ose(l in any case 
 
 inject any form of opium or any similar ])oison. 'I'he first thing to be under 
 
 ood clearly in all such cases is this : the nietlical attendant know> no real 
 
 niedy for the pain, or its cause ; when he |)r(jp()ses to relie\e in this way, \(Ui 
 
 lay as well dismiss him at onte. .An)' how, mark this well. It is of immin^e 
 
 id suffering, foi uportance to understand the ignorance of your ad\iser in relation to cute m 
 
 and cold, couU 'ur case. 
 
 il as it is alwa\ 
 
 You must remember that it by no means follows, bec.iuse Nour physician 
 liows no remedy, that there is none. There have been cases in which such 
 ■tstand the prinlremedy as this was proposed, in which all pain disapi)eared in half lUi hour, 
 ir instance thaid did not return, by nothing further being done than a cold cloth being 
 
 .'lit should knov 
 ifort is procurer 
 e, it is best tha 
 part of a suffer 
 ssible to relic\ 
 
 nlly pressed over the root of the nerve which was giving terrible jjain. The 
 '■dical man did not know that a gentle cooling of a particular >pot would 
 re his patient; he only knew that a little morphia injected would deaden the 
 isibility and give temporary relief. I could not imagine his doing as he 
 iposed to do, if he had known how actually to cure his patient at first. In 
 ler cases he would visit day by day until his bill rose to a very heavy sum 
 
36 
 
 A LESSON ON MOKIMIIA. 
 
 indeed, while if he h;ul only known, one visit or two at the utmost would have 
 been amply sufficient. His ignorance was lucrative, [)erha|)s you might he dis 
 posed to say; t)ut it is the least that can be said, that such ignorance is 
 confessed the instant a medical man proposes to inject morphia. He confesses 
 that he knows nothing that can put the wrong afllicting you, right, and that he 
 can only silence the poor nerves that are complaining. If he is alive to this 
 truth, and sees that you are alive to it also, it may stimulate his intelligence, 
 and possibly lead him to seek about a little for a real remedy. 
 
 Vor example, you may be in torture by a pain in some part of your body. 
 The medical adviser knows the nerve that gives this pain, and jiropo.ses the 
 injection of morj)hia. He is ignorant of anything better than this miserable 
 subterfuge in the way of cure. Suppose that you try a very hot ap[)licatioii, 
 .say a hot bran |)oulti("e, to liie roots of the nerves affected, if you can guess 
 where those roots are. The doctor should help you to know this much. The 
 hot poultice is put on ; we shall say it fails to relieve. Well, you |)ut on a 
 cold application at the same place ; that relieves slightly. 'I'he hot one may 
 have done so, or this may have done so ; that will turn uynm the nature of the 
 wrong which is causing the pain. Observe this, that whichever of the ap|)lica 
 tions relieves, should be followed up vigorously. Do not say, O, it gives relief 
 for a little, and then the pain returns. Follow up the little relief, and change 
 from heat to cold, as the pain or relief indicates; you can do no possible harm 
 by such process, and in multitudes of cases all will soon be right, and nu 
 opiate re(juired. 
 
 But you must not think all remedies ai un end, when you have tried one 
 or two singly, and relief does not yet come. The large hot poultice may be 
 put on the roots of the affected nerves, and ice-cold cloths placed on the 
 branches at the same time ; then ice-cold cloths, but never the real ice, as that 
 tends to freeze, may be placed on the roots of the nerves, and the hot on the 
 branches. The doctor, perhaps, has not thought of such things, he has only 
 confes.sed his ignorance of all remedies, but that is no rea.son why you should 
 not think of them. It seems to me rather a strong reason why you should 
 think of something yourself, when one who ought to know confesses that he 
 does not. But remedies are not exhausted by any means, when you have 
 thought of two or three applications of heat and cold. The whole nervt 
 system can be influenced by the rubbing of the head and spinal region, so a 
 to wake up a strong increase of vital action in the nerve centres there. I 
 
INjF^CTim; MORI'MIA. 
 
 37 
 
 ; would havi- 
 iiight l)C' dis 
 igiioranrc is 
 He confcssts 
 , and that he 
 alive to this 
 intclligciH-.u, 
 
 )f your body, 
 proposes the 
 lis niiserahk 
 t apf)liaitioii, 
 ou can guess 
 much. The 
 you put on u 
 hot one may 
 nature of the 
 )f the api)lica 
 it gives relict 
 f, and changL 
 )ossil)le harm 
 right, and no 
 
 have seen a patient who had been for months under medical treatment, and in 
 ;i;4()ny, except when deadened with narcotics, rendered indi-pendent of all such 
 tilings by a little skillful rubbing alone. 
 
 Perhaps you object tJiat these remedies are very simi)le. Well, that 
 would be no great harm ; but if they are so simple, you are surely a simpK-ton 
 it you let your jxKir nerves be killed with morphia, while such obvious remed- 
 ies are at hand. It would be a great comforf and relief to the writer, if I was 
 luver to hear of j)eople again allowing their friends to be put under the influ- 
 ence of morphine, and sending them into eternity in an unconscious state, 
 Wiio will have to answer for thi.s, the doctor or the friends, or both? For if 
 ever we re(iuire our full consciousness, it is when we are going into i-ternity. 
 I'erhaj)s you .say, if we call a doctor, we must do as he orders ; .so, we suppose 
 if you call a priest, you must risk your soul on him, as you risk your body, and 
 sometimes soul too, on a doctor. No, that is not reason. If the priest tells 
 you that he knows no cure for your soul, see if you may not know better for 
 yourself, and for him too ; if a doctor confesses similar ignorance, try a similar 
 eourse. liut always be (juite sure that your I'ather in heaven has not left you 
 to remedies that only go to make your afflictions ten times worse than they 
 would otherwise be. 
 
 ave tried one 
 
 ultice may be 
 
 )laced on the 
 
 al ice, as that 
 
 le hot on the 
 
 , he has only 
 
 y you shoult 
 
 y you shouk 
 
 fesses that he 
 
 len you have 
 
 whole nerve 
 
 region, so a; 
 
 itres there. 
 
38 
 
 CONSUMPTION CONTINUED; AND HOW TO 
 HANDLE THE CONSUMPTIVE. 
 
 I will just here inform you how to handle a consumptive after the disease 
 has }j;()t a start. If the |)atients wish, they should always he allowed to sleep 
 entirely alone, especially in cold weather, and to manage their own room jusl 
 as they see fit, for I know if I had been dejirived of this j)rivilege, I would not 
 he li\ing to day. The room should be well aired and ventilated in the day 
 time, if the palieni is able to rise and go to an adjoining room, where it is 
 comfortably warm, and when the weather is real cold it is a good plan to warm 
 a brick in the oven, do not make it hot enough to scorch anything, and ket'|) 
 a cotton cloth to wrap it in, and if it will not scorch that when you wraj) it 
 aroimd, it will not scorch the bed. Put this brick in the bed about an hour 
 i)efore the patient wishes to retire, and when the sufferer is ready, then remove 
 the brick, and the bed is comfortably warm to receive him. This is one of tlu' 
 great secrets m the cure of consumj)tion, to keep yourself warm between the 
 shoulders, in the back. You should never allow yourself to take a chill in the 
 back, and if you have occasion to rise in the night, you should keep a shawl or 
 a blanket close by, and throw it around so as to keep your lungs warm until 
 you retire again. 
 
 to \()l 
 
 kc(.'()s 
 
 }l)U w 
 <;0(h1 j 
 
 neatht 
 ten in( 
 
 tln' m( 
 hDiu t; 
 
 N 
 ^o dov 
 1)1 tinu 
 always 
 peratui 
 this is 
 tliese t 
 n|(| say 
 [)ound 
 to stay 
 seen pc 
 Were ik 
 friends, 
 stayed 
 riLht in 
 
 I remember well how I used to suffer, until, to my great astonishment, 1 
 found out that it is in our backs we take cold. I was always told to keep my 
 chest warm, : )r fear ol" taking cold ; but I have discovered to my own satis- 
 faction, that the chest most to be |)rotecte(l, is in the back, between the 
 shoulders. If you kee[) your l)ack thoroughly warm, and oil it occasionally 
 say every night, it is a great help for the invalid, and to those who have not 
 yet got this disease, it is a sure i)reveiUati\e ; but tliey only re(|uire to oil tin 
 back oni'e a week, and what is more simple than this and perfectly reliable 
 There is a knack in putting on the oil -it should be always well rubbed in, aiK 
 then you can take a line cloth and rub the rest off, for \()u must never leave -;'ve tul 
 the skin wet, for you lan give cold with oil, and it is one of the greatest cure 
 
 in the world for a great many diseases, when haiulletl properly. 
 
 >\ the c 
 
 Another great help for those who are troubled with their lungs is to takilwith its 
 
 a strip of llannel six inches wide and the whole length of the back, tack it on ach si( 
 
 Ai 
 
 •old pr 
 
 unities 
 
 liMicull 
 
 eason, 
 
 H' aske 
 
 Itself in 
 
 It may 
 
 iinswer, 
 
' 
 
 V TO 
 
 coNsuMrriON ((^ntinuei). 
 
 39 
 
 ■r the disease 
 wed to sleep 
 ^n room jusl 
 I would not 
 1 in the day 
 . where it is 
 pUui to warm 
 ng, and keej) 
 you wrap it 
 bout an hour 
 then remove 
 s is one ot the 
 between tin 
 I rhill in the 
 p a shawl or 
 s warm until 
 
 onishment, 1 
 
 I to keep m\ 
 
 11 y own satis 
 
 between the 
 
 oecasionally. 
 
 who have not 
 
 lire to oil tlu 
 
 eetly reliahU 
 
 ubbed in, aiK 
 
 t never lea\i 
 
 greatest c-iuv 
 
 inj^s is to take 
 Ilk, taek it oi 
 
 to your undershirt and you will (nid it a great proteetion to the back, as it 
 kee{)s the nerves warm, and my firm belief is that it is warmer -that is it keeps 
 )()U warmer than another whole undergarment. You would fnid it also a 
 uood preventative against taking cold, tf those who are ex))osed to the cold 
 weather and compelled to he out in cold weather would keej) a piece of flannel 
 ten inches wide and the whole length of the spine, and put it on their back in 
 ilu' morning and wear it all day, even this would go a good way to keep you 
 fioni taking cold when you are compelled to be out in cold weather. 
 
 Neither should a consumptive sleej) in a room where the air is allowed to 
 -() down to a freezing point, this of itself would injure the lungs in the course 
 n\ time if there is nothing else wrong, for the lungs in a healthy individual are 
 always somewhere about ninety degrees or more, and to slet.'p where the tem- 
 perature goes down to freezing, as the freezing point is lower than forty degrees, 
 this is too great a change and will of itself injure the lungs if persisted in, but 
 these things are often neglected until it is too late. I have found it to be an 
 old saying and a true one, "that an ounce of i)reventative is worth more than a 
 pound of cure." It is also a great help in the way of cure for the consumptive 
 to stay within their apartments in the winter time as much as possible. 1 have 
 seen people urge the poor invalid to go out when I knew j)erfectly well they 
 were not able to go. I knew a )oung man that did go to please his pretended 
 rieiids, and the result was he never saw the following spring, when if he had 
 stayed within his apartments and got the pro|)er care, he would have come all 
 riuht in the c:ourse of time. 
 
 And there is pleurisy also which comes of taking cold. When extreme 
 lid |)revails in the atonisj)liere, as it does in some of our winters, many ojjpor- 
 tunities arise for seeing and treating such a thing as pleurisy. It is not very 
 (liflicult to imderstand how such an illtiess is producetl, especially in such a 
 season, though it may not be easy to answer e\i'r\- possible (piestion that might 
 le asked regarding it. For example, it is the result of cold and \c't it shows 
 itself in extreme heat, as well as in severe pain. How is this, may be asked 
 It may not be easy so to answer as to how it is, as to make all understand the 
 iinswer, yet it need not be difficult to make as much clear as is lU'cessary t(j 
 i\e full confidence in the reasonableness of a parlieuhir mode of ciu'e. 
 
 The pleura is the tender double web or membrane which lines the inside 
 i>\' the chest on the one side, atul covers the lung, or rather incloses the lung 
 uith its other fold. I^acli of the two lungs has it pk.'ura in which it works, ami 
 ich side of the chest is lined by one side of this sensitive organ. The slender 
 
40 A LESSON ON HOW TO HANDLE THE CONSUMITIVE. 
 
 lining passes round the greater part of one whole side of the body with onciliour c 
 fold, and round the whole of the lung with the other. Let us supi)ose, which rases i 
 often takes placx', that the front of the body is defended with what is called a turn o 
 "chest protector," but the sides and back are exposed to a chilling atonisj)here. nustai 
 Part of the pleura, and that part which is farthest from the surface, is sheltered, )aiicnl 
 l)ut the greater part of it, and that nearest the surface, has no such protection. linn 
 In the case, especially of women, this is the state of things. In almost allljoison 
 cases it seems as if peoj)le thought '.hat if they only keep a few inches of the 
 breast warm — that is, keeping the chest all right — though the sides just under 
 the arms, and the back under the shoulder blades, is of far greater inijiortance 
 The throat is even muffled, and a respirator worn, so that the chilling air i>ll In 
 
 H 
 
 inor si 
 
 
 I)I(|S It 
 
 () the 
 
 l)lood is admitted as it is not intended it should be. 
 
 not allowed to get inside the lungs, while it is freely allowed to get at tl 
 pleura from the outside. The consequence of this is that vital action is so 
 abstracted from the pleura that the tension of its small vessels are relaxed, anc )resses 
 
 lell. 
 )ut on 
 :()ld wa 
 v;iy, thi 
 )iic the 
 so. ; 
 
 This very serious result may have happened only by the patient sittins. 
 with the feet towards the fire, and the side or back exposed to a cold draugh: 
 from the door. It may not be suspected how it has happened, but it is sooi 
 known that a very severe illness has come. Severe pain is soon felt in one sidi 
 at least, and round to the l)ack under the shoulder blades — it may be on botl 
 sides of the chest and the back also. Breathing within a pleura, or within tw 
 of them, giving distressing pain, soon Ijecomes a very trying matter. It seem 
 as if there was a band tied over the breast, and a load lying upon it. ('ouuh 
 
 ni 
 
 ing, such as gives sore pain with every effort is set up, and the sufferer i ■ 
 indeed to be j)itied if no efficient help is at hand. 
 
 he se 
 
 UK 
 U' C( 
 
 ■jromisi 
 
 m 
 
 r 
 
 It is of immense im[)ortance now that mistaken remedies should I 
 
 avoided. A plaster of mustard is probably the mildest measure thought o; 
 
 and that on a sensitive breast is no joke as an increase of distress. The hat 
 
 ful cantharides are more likely to be prescribed. These will actually destro 
 
 the very skin which it is so very desirable to treat effectually, with a view to cui| 
 
 the malady. Bromide of potassium will be nearly sure to be ordered, with tli 
 
 sure effect of a great aggravation of the illness. 1"^'^ ^ 
 
 late 111 
 
 I speak of these things in crder to induce men to think for themseK\ rcess; 
 
 and their helpless ones, so that the more obvious and accessible remedies ma roperl 
 
 not be despised in the choice of palpable absurdities. It is not only possib mly j,- 
 
 but perfectly easy to relieve the patient in pleurisy, without so much as tl ic fee 
 
 very least disturbance or inconvenience, and to have all pain gone within ifoes oi 
 
 hree n 
 iiUil t 
 ic cas 
 ion. 
 ) hav 
 
['TIVE. 
 
 ody with one 
 
 pi)Ose, which 
 
 lilt is called a 
 
 f utomspherc. 
 
 is sheltered. 
 
 :h protection, 
 
 In almost all 
 
 inches of the 
 
 L's just under 
 
 :r importance 
 
 chilling air i 
 
 :1 to get at th 
 
 CONSUMPTION CONTINUED. 
 
 41 
 
 iiour of the time when one is made aware of the disease. There have heen 
 asLS in which the patient could not sleep, t;ould not rest awake, dare not 
 turn on the affected side ; with the pulse high and pain and coughing intense, 
 mustard only making matters worse ; and yet all the trouble gone and the 
 )aiient asleep, lying on the affected side, within two hours of the first ap})lica- 
 ion. When this may be done, why should the horrid system of irritating and 
 )()isoning go on ? 
 
 Here is a case — it is inflammation of the j)leura of the left side. I'he 
 
 )()or sufferer is fevered and in sore pain laboring to breathe. What is wanted? 
 
 The nurse takes a large towel, dips it in cold water and wrings it out ; she 
 
 olds it in four, so that it will just nicely cover the side from the spine round 
 
 il action is so o the breastbone, (iently she puts this on the side of the sufferer, and 
 
 re relaxed, and )resses it as if her soul were all in iier arm and hand, she does it so gently and 
 
 veil. It is heated in a minute or so, but it feels delightful to the patient when 
 
 )ut on and pressed as a true nurse will do it. She has another towel in the 
 
 ■old water, and ([uickly that is wrung out and placed on the side in the same 
 
 vuy, the hot one is thrown into the water to cool. She gives this new cold 
 
 )tK' the same gentle pressure all over again. This is warm in about a minute 
 
 Iso. She wrings out the first one, which is now cold enough, and takes off 
 
 lay l)e on boll||^^, ^^-cond throwing it into fresh cold water. She has the third application in 
 
 I, or within t ai| ^^^j ,-,f)^y^ ,^,-,(1 fj-^,^^ ^1^^. y^.,.y spine itself over every inch of the skin she make.s 
 
 Ltter. It seem|l^j^, j^^jjj (-Jof^ come close in contact. The pain is not gone yet but it is 
 
 (on It. ^-'^^'^"Iromising to leave ere long. The heat does not so (]uickly warm u[) the towel. 
 
 ;1 the sullerer il^^,, niinutes may pass without any change, but not nnich more. (Iradually 
 
 hree minutes may pass but the pain must be fought till it leaves entirely, and 
 
 ,. , , , 1 liitil the i)atient c:an easily turn and lie on the bad side. If this should not be 
 dies should l)f . . , , 
 
 patient sittini 
 a cold draugh 
 
 but it is sooi 
 felt in one sid 
 
 sure thought oj 
 
 case \vithin half an hour, then the feet may be packed in a hot fonu'iita- 
 
 ess. The hati. 
 
 )n. 
 
 V small blanket is taken and some boiling water poured into it, so as 
 
 u 1 i. I' have a steaming hot wrapi)ing for the feet and legs. 
 actually destrof f^ 1 1 .s s 
 
 th a view to cur 
 
 rdered, with thl 
 
 This is a matter of very great importance. In mans' cases the heat of the 
 )(ly generally fails so that the pleura cannot be safel)' cooled. I will just 
 late lu-re, that in all diseases where the feet and legs are habitual!} cold, it is 
 
 k for themselvc 
 )le remetlies niii 
 lot only possib 
 I so much as tl 
 1 gone within a 
 
 ecessary to get them warmed up. In fact, they have got to be warmed uj) 
 r(j|)erly to effect a cure, and where the jjatieiil is cooled as aforesaid, his 
 ody is chilled by this cooling before it has done its proper work. Hut with 
 le feet and legs in effective fomentation, such as 1 have described, the cooling 
 lies on with j)erfect comfort 'and safety till its work is fully done. I cannot 
 
42 A LESSON ON HOW TO HANDLE THE CONSUMPTIVE. 
 
 too strongly remind the reader of its importance. With this fomentation on, 
 the cooHng of the side, till that cooling gets fairly into the pleura and has put 
 all right, should be carried through. 
 
 Usually, now the pain is entirely gone, the patient wishes to sleep. This 
 may hold good for hours, especially if it hapj)ens to he bedtime. On awaken- 
 ing the pain may in some degree have returned. It refjuires to be met in the 
 same fashion. On ceasing such operations, it is well always to rub gently all 
 over with a little vinegar ; but not while feverishness is near, with oil. In a case 
 in which both sides of the che.st are ecjually bad, the remedy will be the same, 
 only doubled. It will be necessary to bring the cold cloth round the back 
 and over the sides, and almost at once to foment the feet, so as to promote 
 circulation and keep up the supply of action to the Ijody generally, when tak- 
 ing so much off at the chest. 
 
 This mode of cure is not only quick in the relief it gives, but it leaves the 
 patient not one whit the worse for anything that has been done. \Vith 
 tender constitutions, in which there is little to sj)are of hardy energy in any 
 j)art of the body, and in which such poisons as potassium tlo fatal damage so 
 often, it is of immense imiKjrtance to know how to relieve in these simj)le and 
 harmless ways. 
 
 As I have said I may not be al)le to answer any thoretic (|uestions that 
 may be asked in reference to such cases, how, for instan(-e, it is that a cold 
 relaxes the pleura at first and yet contracts its vessels when in a slate of relax- 
 ation. The reply is probably this. The cold in the first instance' is so long 
 continued that it |)artially destroys the vitality of the nerves in the jjleura. 
 That is restored to superabundance from the other j)art of the body in an 
 effort to restore the gorged vessels to their proper state. To modify this super- 
 abundant action is to cure the sufferer. Me the explanation wiiat it ma)\ such 
 is the seen and felt effect of the right treatment. 
 
TIVE. 
 
 cntation on, 
 and has put 
 
 ilcep. This 
 On awakcn- 
 L' met in thv 
 jh gently all 
 1. In a case 
 )e the same, 
 nd the hack 
 to promote 
 y, when tak- 
 
 it leaves the 
 one. With 
 lergy in an\ 
 1 damage so 
 ■ simj)le and 
 
 lestions that 
 i that a cold 
 lite of reUix- 
 •e is so long 
 1 the pleura. 
 ; l)od\ in an 
 y this super- 
 it may, such 
 
 43 
 
 BATHING THE ENTIRE PERSON, AND HOW TO DO IT. 
 
 It is my firm helief that if people would keep their skins as clean as they 
 should, that fevers would he entirely unknown in the land ; except the fever 
 that is the result of a hurt, or what little fever that may arise from the heat of 
 I sore. So I puri)ose inserting here a simjile manner of hathing that is very 
 efficacious and within the n.-ach of all ; the servant as well as his master ; 
 and also for those who are hoarding and conseciuently have no home of their 
 own. 
 
 You can easily procure a hottle of good white vinegar, hy this I mean 
 I lear and not too dark in the color ; you can get a (juart for ten cents. Carry 
 an old saucer with you, pour out ahout half a .saucerful and warm it-— remem- 
 bering always to use it warm in cold weather. Then sponge all over your 
 l)er.son, ruhhing briskly. If you think you cannot afford a sponge, a piece of 
 rag will do. If i)eople would give themselve a l)ath of this kind at least once 
 a week, they would find that it would go a long way towards keei)ing them in 
 good health, and i)erha|)s many times keep the doctor from your door ; for 
 there is a great deal depends u])on keej)ing the pores of the skin ojjcn, in fact 
 It has to be done in order to be truly healthy. By this I do not mean to do 
 away with soap and water, for if you would give yourself a soap and water bath 
 once a month, the vinegar would do between times all right in cold weather ; 
 and by experience I know it is far better by a good many times than the water 
 l)ath. Because when properly rubbed it will go through all sweatiness and 
 affect the skin far better than soap antl water, and is very cleansing and sweet- 
 ening to the skin and freshens it greatly. 
 
 Another good (juality it has is that it evaporates (juickly, so that you 
 rarely need any wiping off. You can take a bath of this kind in the coldest 
 weather in a warm room, having the wash warm also, without the slightest 
 danger of taking cold, so that the i)ores of your skin will not get (-logged up in 
 the winter, as a great many do, and conseciuently have a sick spell in the spring 
 before they get their skins thoroughly cleansed up. My opinion is that if this 
 manner of bathing was attend to all through the winter that it would alleviate 
 a good deal of the spring sicknes.s, and your doctor's bills consecjuently would 
 l)e a great deal smaller. 
 
44 
 
 A LESSON ON BAT HI NO. 
 
 Then there is that disease called night sweats, which some i)e()i)le get so 
 alarmed about and think they are g(Mng for sure into consumption. Now, 
 when that sets in, it also comes from a filthy skin, as I will show you before 
 I get through with this lesson, and it is also one of the commonest symptoms 
 of weakness in the whole vital system, is the [)rofuse perspiration which 
 breaks out in the night and early morning, and so sorely distresses many a poor 
 sufferer. There is nothing that is more easily cured. Even when disease 
 has gone too far to be finally arrested it is very easy to take away entirely 
 this night sweating, and so give the patient very great relief. As I do generally, 
 it ma)' be well in this also to give some idea of what this night sweating really 
 means. The difficulty in th' '-ay of such an explanation lies in the fact that 
 this ])erspiration occur^, wliiuait any immediate cause. If a person is subject 
 to great heat, as in 'I'lrkish baths, we have no difficulty in understanding, or 
 in at least thinking we \ind( 'an.! nis experience in this respect. Or if he is 
 exerting himself in some bodily lai)or by which the sweat pours, as we say. 
 from his brow and all parts of his skin, or even if a patient is under great pain 
 and |)ersi)ires jjrofusely as the consequence, the case excites no surprise. It 
 is in the absence of everything, such as usually accounts for it, that tin; night 
 sweats we have now in view seem so mysterious. With no extra heat, no 
 exertion and no pain the sufferer is drenched with pers[)iration. It is this 
 apparently causeless outpouring of the substance of the body that needs to be 
 explained. 
 
 To understand it we must see clearly, at the outset, that what we call the 
 "pores" in the skin are vessels so constructed that they shut in as well as 
 allow to escape the juices of the vital system. It is iht'ir function to close 
 tightly up in certain circumstances, and to open out in others. Nothing is more 
 essential to good health than this same ready power on the ])art of these 
 minute organs. For example, when the atmosphere is cold it is of the greatest 
 imj)ortance that the skin should be dry and not damp. 'i"o secure this dryness 
 therefore, the healthy j)ores close up and keej) in that which would otherwise 
 exude and make the skin too good a conductor of heat for the necessity within. 
 When the atmosphere becomes heated and it is well that evaporation should 
 cool the body, the [)ores relax and allow a moisture to come on the surface. 
 When from lack of exercise the waste of the body is less than it might be, the 
 pores com|)aratively shut their openings, but when from incresed exertion, the 
 waste is rapid!) produced, these pores open and throw it off. In proportion 
 to the vigor of the vital action of the nerves of the pores, this shutting and 
 oj)ening of the organs go on and keej) exact time with all the changes that 
 effect us from without and from within. 
 
 ai tion 
 stand 
 with ' 
 iiatiira 
 not, a; 
 tightly 
 restore 
 uiitimt 
 direct 
 will Ik 
 will be 
 their b 
 one (]i 
 wrappi 
 
 I- 
 
 ity will 
 apjjlicq 
 ings, e^ 
 tlie rek 
 the grc 
 and ca 
 the cha 
 clothes 
 
 T< 
 
 matter?- 
 told to 
 wiihoui 
 inankii 
 in such 
 in that 
 so sees 
 l)ody t( 
 lieen d 
 pared c 
 of keej 
 lannot 
 nibject 
 
BATHINC. THE KNTIRK PERSON AND HOW TO IK) IT. 
 
 45 
 
 [K^oplc get so 
 )ti()n. Now, 
 \v you before 
 'St symptoms 
 ration whicli 
 
 many a poor 
 when disease 
 away entirely 
 do generally, 
 ^■eating really 
 
 the fact that 
 ;on is subject 
 rstanding, or 
 Or if he is 
 rs, as we say, 
 er great pain 
 surjjrise. It 
 hat tht! night 
 tra heat, no 
 . It is this 
 
 needs to be 
 
 t we eall the 
 
 n as well as 
 
 tion to close 
 
 hing is more 
 
 art of these 
 
 the greatest 
 
 this dryness 
 
 1(1 otherwise 
 
 ssity within. 
 
 ition siiould 
 
 the surface. 
 
 ight be, the 
 
 xertion, the 
 
 I jiroportion 
 
 hutting and 
 
 :hanges that 
 
 Nothing is more closely related to good health than this same vital 
 ai tion in the nerves of the pores. All, one w(juld think, may easily under- 
 stand the matter in hand so far. Now, if these nerves supplying the j)ores 
 with vitality lose their t(MU', and so fail to be capable of acting, they will 
 naturally allow these pores to be oj)en when they ought to i)e shut. They will 
 not, as in C(;rtain cases, close tightly with over action, but they will fail to close 
 lightly enough. In whatever way it is to be done, we must in such a case 
 restore vitality, and conse(|uently activity to these organs in the skin, when 
 untimely and unnatural sweatings come on. This can lie done in a very 
 direct way by the use of a remedy prepared and ])ut up by the writer, which 
 will be mailed to any address on receipt of price. To those living where it 
 will be convenient for them to come after it them.selves, they will please bring 
 their bottle or bottles along as the (|uantit)' is somewhere i)etween a pint and 
 one (]uart, so one bottle might not hold it all. I-'ull directions for use will be 
 wrapped around the bottle. 
 
 From my experience with it I feel (juite safe in sa)ing that the one (|uant- 
 ity will effect a real cure. The night sweats usually disapi)ear on a single 
 application of this remedy, but it is well to ((jntinue it for three or four even- 
 ings, even when the cure is so rapid as this, and to repeat it for five or six if 
 ilie relaxation of the skin is not sooner removed, liwn if the case is one of 
 the greatest weakness, this ai)plication will only refresh, and if at all kindly 
 and carefully done, will cause not the slightest inconvenience. In this case . 
 the change re()uired is superficial. The si)onging may be done under the bed- 
 ( lothes, so as to give the least possible disturbance or fatigue to the patient. 
 
 To a great many persons all that seems needful in directing them in such 
 matters is only to tell them what to do. It suits such folks admirably when 
 lold to shut their eyes and (){)en their mouths, so as to be ready to swallow 
 without even the sight of what they take in. Hut e\|)erien(e teaclies us that 
 mankind cannot dispense with the understanding which (lod has given them 
 ill such a way as this. The clear and natural faith of the soul is indispensable 
 in that very touch of tlu' hand which does so much in all healing. When one 
 NO sees the relaxed pores and their flagging iutws, alK)wing the juices of the 
 body to flow out through the skin in these terrible night sweats which I ha\e 
 been describing, and then sees how the stimulating re'inedy that I have pre- 
 j)ared acts on these relaxed organs, while the ingredients that it is comj)osed 
 of keeps the heat from i)assing off in vapor, he will apply the remedy as he 
 ' annot j^ossiblv aj)pl\' it whose mind is a confused mass of ignorance on the 
 subject. 
 
46 
 
 A LESSON ON HATHIN(k 
 
 There is no way in whicli wc can secure the wide sj)rea(lin}^ of heaHiig skill 
 among peojjle at large, other than by making knowledge on the subject ot 
 healing easily accessible to all who will care in the least to possess it. ^V'he^ 
 either man or woman has that experience in which one sees, as it were, with 
 his bodily eyes the action of a remedy in a case of illness, and that illness 
 comes in his way, such a person not only feels as if he must proceed and heal, 
 but he does proceed, and the sufferer soon feels that he has got into the 
 right hands. Oh, that is nice ! exclaims the i)oor sufferer. \'es, that must be 
 the ver\' thing I was needing. Oh, what a blessing you came. All such 
 exclamations, with others of gratitude to (lod f(jr sending \-ou, are the natural 
 fruit of knowledge on )()ur |)art. If you will not know, you camiot heal and 
 help as you might do. If you will only know, you will find yourselves healing, 
 come what will. 
 
 I do not wish to close this lesson without mentioning the bathing of the 
 feet, which is one of the most important things in the cure of almost all 
 diseases. People in general think the) understand it thoroughly, and others 
 think any way will do to wash the feet. Now there is no part of the human 
 frame needs greater attention in the process of bathing than the feet, especialh 
 after disease has set in. If the feet and legs up to the knee are cold and 
 clammy, you cannot cure a patient until you get their feel warmed up so they 
 will be habitually warm. Nothing is more to be remarked in leading people 
 to help themselves and one another in the way of healing, than the need of the 
 most minute and repeated instructions as to the details of the most obvious 
 a|)pliances. Volumes of general statements may be written, and all may be 
 true and important, but they go t"or nothing with the great majority of man- 
 kind. Let us try to look a little carefull)' to what is sui)posed to be so simple 
 a matter as that of bathing the feet. 
 
 We shall suppose that there is nvuiifestly a lack of vital energy in the 
 body, and that we wish to increase that energy by infusing more in the form of 
 heat, and through water by the feet and legs, '['he fcxU bath is given for ten, 
 twenty or thirty minutes. It fails to give effective help, because in the great 
 majority of cases it will give no sensible aid in less than forty minutes. It 
 begins to tell in about thirty-five minutes if rightly gone about. It should be 
 given for a full hour. 
 
 But here a most formidable difficulty occurs. Some patients are ready to 
 faint when their feet are in very hot water for five minutes. Many are unable 
 to continue bathing for half an hour. It might occur that in all such ' ises the 
 
" healing skill 
 ic subject ot 
 ss it. ^Vhel1 
 it were, with 
 (1 that ilhiess 
 jed and heal, 
 got into thr 
 that must \)v 
 e. All such 
 e the natural 
 not heal and 
 ■Ives healinu. 
 
 ithing of the 
 
 )f almost all 
 
 ■, and others 
 
 f the human 
 
 L't, especial!) 
 
 e i-()ld and 
 
 1 up so the)' 
 
 ditig people 
 
 need of the 
 
 lost obvious 
 
 1 all may be 
 
 rily of man- 
 
 )e so simple 
 
 lergy in the 
 the form of 
 \en for ten, 
 in the great 
 linutes. It 
 t should be 
 
 ire read)' to 
 
 are unable 
 
 :h ' (ses the 
 
 RATHINC. THE KNl'IRE I'ERSON AND HOW TO DO IT. 47 
 
 \\,iter is too hot, at least to begin with, and that is not ill to remedy, (let a 
 \t^>el that will hold the feet easily, and be as deej) as to reach nearly up to 
 the knees. Put water into that about an inch in depth, and just as near as 
 j)i)>>ible only blood warm, that is, just warm to the feel of a hand at an ordi- 
 11.11) temj)erature. Let the feet be bathed in this, and have plenty of hot 
 water at hand. Let the |)atient be comfortably covered and seated, and wait 
 two minutes or so. Now aild a little, some degrees hotter than that used at 
 fir^t, and ever)- two minutes or so creep upwards in temjK'rature, but only very 
 slowly. There will be no sickners or tendency to fainting. If the heat is 
 raised too fast, gi\e a little cold water to drink, and hasten more slowl)-. 
 
 In half an hour the patient will be able to stand a good, strong heat, but 
 it need not be raised too strongly. He will be (|uite able for an hour of this 
 careful work, unless unable to sit that long in a chair. I'hen, as we shall see, 
 there is another method of dealing with the case. Anyone can see what is 
 called the philosophy of all this. If you desire to restore vitality in any starved 
 body, do not put it into a fire at once, any more than you would think of 
 doing such a thing at last. The process of revival must be gradual in all 
 cases. In certain cases it must be much slower than in others. The 
 reason is simply this — heat is movement. One wheel will stand to be driven 
 at a velocity at which many other wheels will go to |)ieces. One wheel will 
 stand to be driven off at greater speed instantly ; another must come to such 
 speed only very slowly, though it will stand a pretty high rate of motion if 
 l)rought uj) to it with sufficient care. So one set of nerves differs from another 
 ill the capability of bearing and transmitting vital movement or heat into that 
 movement. The same principle holds in cooling as in heating, but we are 
 concerned with the hot bathing chiefly now. In repeated bathing of the feet 
 and legs, or of the knee, which is of such importance, for example, in reducing 
 disease of the knee joint when it is necessary to bathe for an hour thrice a da)', 
 the skin is injured by the constant friction of the water, arid the process be- 
 (1 lilies painful and irritating. 
 
 Nothing is more sinijile than the remed)' for this. If there is any open 
 Mire on the limb, first of all dress that with some cold cream or healing oint- 
 ment, then if the skin has got troublesome, or even reddens, as it would do 
 s(i. dip a soft cloth in weak vinegar and water, and dress the whole gently in 
 that; now go to work with the bathing, and no harm but good will come. 
 I he moist heat will [lass in through the dressing, and that entirely without 
 hiction of the skin which will heal ere long. Many who are .sore sufferers from 
 ■!)ad legs" may be relieved in this way with only a little attention and perfect 
 
48 
 
 A I.KSSON ON IJA'I'IIINC. 
 
 rest. When the huthiiig has gone on (or its |)ro|)er time not less than an 
 hour — take off tlie wet dressing, dry the whole gently with a soft cloth, dress 
 again with dr\ cloths above fresh ones, having simple ointment anil weak 
 vinegar. 
 
 Then, however, I must notice cases in which it is out of the (juestion to 
 ask the patient to sit ui)right, or to do anything hut lie Hat on the hack from 
 weakness, or it may be from the danger of bleeding from the lungs. Nothing 
 is of greater moment thiMi giving a good increase of vital energy in such cases 
 at the same tmie at which you cool down the diseased parts. 
 
 For example, there has been a case in which bleeding from one of the 
 lungs had occurred somewha*: severely. 'I"he j)atient dare not move from his 
 back from fear of bringing the bUxxl anew, as it had come twice already in 
 considerable ([uantity. Thire was pain in the chest that could only be soothed 
 by a decidedly cold application, and the rapid pulse recjuired to be brought to 
 a slower pace. 'I'he feet and well u|) the legs were wra])ped in a hot blanket 
 fomentation. The comfort of this spread over him at once, and then cold 
 cloths were applied to the chest over the pain, which soon left entirely. This 
 fomentation, allowed to remain (mi for about an hour, supplied abundant 
 strength while the pulse fell at least ten beats in the minute; at another appli- 
 cation it fell twenty. In such a case there could be no bathing in the ordinary 
 sense, but the same thing could be accomplished in another way. It is true 
 of this infusion of vital energy by the feet, and of many other remedial 
 measures that we often have exceedingly little cajxicity to deal with. It is 
 nearly sufficient to kill one patient to do that which would be delightful in the 
 experience of another whose bodily system is vigorous, and who can rejoice in 
 even somewhat rough handling; while it is also true that a great deal must be 
 done by degrees in some of the weakest cases. 
 
 U'e were a good deal amused lately to hear that one of our remedies was 
 tried in a case and it did a little good. "The doctor who was attending the 
 case tried the remedy in another case, and there too it did a little good;" it 
 was tried a little. If I had had the cases in hand, as we have had others, it 
 would have been tried probably twenty littles, and it would have done forty 
 times as much good. You are shut up with frail creatures to relieve and 
 remedy by "littles," but you nmst not stoj) with one little in such cases. 
 Some people who have faith in homieopathy have wrought by simple globules 
 or atoms, if they could have got these, but they always used a good many of 
 these "littles" in the course of time. All you need care for in any ca.se where 
 
less than an 
 
 cloth, dress 
 
 t and weak 
 
 (luestioii to 
 ,' hack from 
 
 <. Nothing 
 1 such cases 
 
 MATHINO THK KNTIRK PRKS(;\ AND HOW TO DO IT. 
 
 4<; 
 
 ;i remedy isai)|)lied, is the (cvWuii that it is "nice," or "soothing," or "cool." 
 '.!• something however little that is in the right diu-ction. Then \ on have 
 only to follow it out, and cure is certain, not followed out in a hurry, hut as 
 good sense regulates. There has i)een a case of erysipelas in the head cured 
 liy an unceasing application of cold cloths for sixteen hours, the operator lu-ver 
 erasing for many minutes all that time. It was weary work, hut it saved a 
 precious life by littles, only a sufficient number of them. 1 trust my readers 
 will, by the help of Ood, gather something useful from these remarks. 
 
 1 one of the 
 ve from his 
 e already in 
 ■ be soothed 
 brought to 
 lot blanket 
 I tlu-n cold 
 rely. This 
 1 abundant 
 other aj)pli- 
 he ordinary 
 It is true 
 er remedial 
 ivith. It is 
 litful in the 
 1 rejoice in 
 al must be 
 
 nedies was 
 jnding the 
 : good;" it 
 1 others, it 
 done forty 
 elieve and 
 such cases, 
 le globules 
 •d many of 
 case where 
 
so 
 
 BATHING THE FEET; OH HOW TO CUKE COLD FEET. 
 
 ThcR' is a degree of coldness in tlie feet and legs wliich refuses to Ix 
 overeotne by the short hot foot haths, olive oil rubbing and cotton stockings 
 in bed, which effectually remove that trouble in a great niajorit\ of casi's. 'I'l 
 meet this, the use of hot bottles packed around the cold person is not at all . 
 desirable remedy if a better can possibly be apj)lied. 'I'here are cases in whici 
 it seiMiis impossible to do an\thing else than this from the extreme weakness 
 of the patients, but tlu'si' cases are the e.\cej)tion to the rule of those which 
 come fairly into view when 1 come upon our present subject. 
 
 In many persons who are (\ij)able of even treating themsehes with ver\ 
 little help from others, this coldness very seriously |)revails. and it is their cure 
 in many other respects when diey are (Hired in this. i'Vom the waist down 
 wards, in many cases of weakly health, there is a damp coldness which it seem- 
 all but imj)ossible to remove. When this is the cast' it is exci'edingly difficuli 
 to deal effectually with troubleN m the cht t and head, on account of the con 
 centration of an action in these which should be diffused o\erthe whole bod). 
 Now this can be easily and thoroughly removed; if )()u have a bath in which 
 the feet can be placed, and the water be allowed gradua'ly to rise till it comc^ 
 well uj) towards the knees, you have the chief thing needed. \'ou have as 
 much comfortably warm water as will cover the feet over the ankles to jjegiii 
 with, and a kettleful on the boil near at hand. Place the feet in this bath, 
 and cover yourself and bath all up in a blanket. Make sun' that \()ur feet an 
 comfortably warm, just as hot as you have the very feeling you would mosi 
 like to have in such a bath. The heat with whii'h you conuiience is the stan 
 dard to which you must keep it up, and all will depend on that being all just 
 right so as to be thoroughly comfortable. 
 
 Well, the water is very soon cooler, and you must add some that is hotter. 
 Be careful in doing this to raise the heat just so as to give the feeling of com 
 fort still. Now you can easily know what is meant when 1 say that you arc 
 to keep going on in this way for half an hour at least; if, when that is over you 
 still feel as if you wished for longer comfort in the bath, continue it for a 
 ([uarter of an hour longer. But be careful, watch that you do not raise the 
 heat so as to cause discomfort in sweating or sickness. If any discomfort ot 
 
MAiiiiNc. rm: kkkt: ok now to ci ki: cold iia:!' 
 
 .D FEET. 
 
 L'fVISl'S to III 
 
 on sl()(•killg-^ 
 t' ciisi'S. '10 
 -, nut ill all a 
 uses in which 
 uv WLiikncs^ 
 those which 
 
 •(.s with very 
 
 . is their cure 
 
 waist clown 
 
 hich it seem- 
 
 ni;ly (lifticull 
 
 t of the con 
 
 ■ whole IhkI). 
 
 tath in which 
 
 till it comes 
 
 \'ou have as 
 
 I'S to l)i'jj,in 
 
 n this hath, 
 
 \()Ur feet arr 
 
 woukl mosl 
 
 e is the slan 
 
 „„.,.,.,. 
 
 hat IS hotter, 
 ling of com- 
 that )()U arc 
 t is over yoii 
 tinue it for a 
 lot raise the 
 liscomfort ot 
 
 thi> kind comes on. then sou ari' heating too fast. It is the long ( ontiniianci' 
 of the gradual communication of mild heat to tlu' circulation, and also to all 
 he tissues of the weakly vital |)art^. thai works the remedy re(|uire(l. Now, 
 svhen you feel as if \t)U had enough of lln' hath, you dry .dl c.uefully and 
 thoroughly; then you ruh well with hot olive oil, taking care not to |)ut on too 
 much at once. This will take you only two or three minutes. \"ou now put 
 on soft cotton stockings, and goto heil for rest. \'ou will not need more than 
 three such haths, till your cold feet are cured of their coldness. 
 
 This remedy for cold feet is one of very great imi)(>rtance. It is not only 
 I hat the circulation is determined downwards in the hody, so that the chest 
 and head are relii \ed. hut a great and healthful addition is madi' to that vital 
 action 1))' which the nerve system is really alive. The \ir)- slender help in 
 diis resj)ei:t gi\en us in a foot-hath for five or ten minuti .. which is allowed to 
 >ass off in the looling of the limhs when there is no oiling or stockings usid 
 'er, is a feehle matter compared with that which I here descrihe. It is this 
 large addition to the \ery life force of the system that makes it of such value. 
 
 For instance, when there are symptoms that the life action is lower than 
 it ought to he, such as occur often in such weather as we have towards the 
 close of the year, it is clearly evident that, if we can easily and greatly increase 
 the supply of the life action we shall remove these symptoms. .And so I fuid 
 the truth to he. All that lives is made to show its revi\al when a good addi- 
 tion like this is made to the life power. It is delightful too, to think how very 
 cheap all the.se remedies are. Very few are so situated that they may not get 
 all that is needed for a long foot-hath, say thrice rejjeated, even as I adsise. 
 .\ni\ even the poorest are within reach, as a rule, of some one who would 
 willingly help to such a remedy as this. What an immensity of ingenuity and 
 money are spent on the pretended discovery of drugs, and often on mere 
 fancies, which are Ixjth saved in the use of a few (|uarts of hot water and .t 
 little olive oil. If the patient ever takes a chill after these haths, gi\e him hot 
 water to drink, just as hot as he can drink it, and wrap him well up in good 
 hlankets. Jiut we- must not fail to he thankful for the light that is showing 
 it.self in the darkness. Some others like myself are coming to that light. 
 
52 
 
 HOW TO CURE A RESTLESS AND UNEASY FEELING. 
 
 It is necessary sometimes to consider symptoms that more or less belong 
 to all diseased states of the body, and of the mind as well. Whatever the evil 
 may be which is making itself felt in the experience of a patient, it is well to 
 endeavour to mitigate, if we are not able to remove, these present symptoms. 
 When, for instance, one cannot find out a position in which he can lie for more 
 than a very few minutes at a time, it is well, altogether apart from the cjuestion 
 as to whether he is capable of cure or not, to see whether it is not possible to 
 subdue this restlessness. It may be that the sufferer is in comj)aratively good 
 health, or it may be that he is actually dying, whatever is his state in these respects 
 it cannot but be a humane and blessed thing to exert ourselves to give him 
 real rest, and that in a way that can do no harm in any direction. 
 
 Let us first of all take a very light case in which there is not much wrong 
 in any way, only the person affected cannot lie still in bed. It is not that he 
 cannot sleep. If he could lie ([uietly and comfortably still, it might not mat- 
 ter so much that he should lie longer awake than he could wish, but he cannot 
 lie still. He changes his position and for a few moments is at rest, but it is 
 only for a few moments. An indescribable uneasiness creeps over him, and 
 very shortly he must change again. This goes on sometimes till it becomes 
 exceedingly distressing. A very natural and important (luestion arises when 
 we only begin to study such an experi* -'c as this: how is it that a change of 
 position gives rest for even a few sec , ^? It might be a matter of mere heat- 
 ing and cooling. If the internal ht.-L is high, it requires only a little time's 
 heating of the surface over any particular organ, so to increase that heat as to 
 produce discomfort and restless feeling. If that internal heat, however, though 
 high, is not very high, it reijuires only a little cooling of the surface over that 
 organ to lower its temperature .so as to give a feeling of relief and rest. 
 
 It is of very great importance to be alive to such simple explanations of 
 such states. Hut it is better to know how to remedy even such comparatively 
 trivial affections. A towel wrung out of cold water and folded so as to be 
 easily placed all along the spine, will cool the whole system in one or two 
 changes as to give perfect relief. It will not do, and it may not be at all safe 
 
HOW TO CURE A RESTLESS AND UNEASY FEELING. 
 
 53 
 
 LING. 
 
 jss belong 
 cr the evil 
 
 is well to 
 iymptoms. 
 e for more 
 e (|uestion 
 K)ssil)le to 
 ively good 
 se respects 
 
 give him 
 
 uch wrong 
 ot that he 
 t not mat- 
 he cannot 
 , but it is 
 him, and 
 
 becomes 
 ises when 
 change of 
 mere heat- 
 ttle time's 
 heat as to 
 er, though 
 
 over that 
 t. 
 
 nations of 
 ipa:utively 
 o as to be 
 ne or two 
 at all safe 
 
 to chill the whole surface of the body in an effort to get relief It is better and 
 always perfectly safe to cool the nerve centres along the spinal region, and from 
 ihese centres to relieve the whole frame. Instead of tossing about in miser- 
 able restlessness it is a very simple matter to dip a towel in cold water, wring 
 k out, fold it narrow and about the length of the l^ack, fold a dry one rather 
 broader, and cover the damj) one with it to keep the clothes dry, then lie down 
 on this most soothing of remedies. The towel will, in most cases, heat soon 
 the first or second time it is put on, but it can be changed till perfect rest 
 comes. If it is merely a case of temperature, that will not be long delayed. A 
 little oil may be rubbed on the back before and after such an application; but 
 it will do no harm if sleep comes and there is no further thing done till the 
 patient wakes up long after, and finds the towel and back cjuite dry and all 
 right. 
 
 There is one modification of this simple and lighter form of restlessness 
 which re<iuires a modification in treatment. The extra heat may be chiefly in 
 tile head; in this case the change of [)osition will not give even temporary 
 rest. The irritation in the brain will pass along the spinal marrow and cause 
 constan'.!y recurring change of position, as that does not cool the brain, even 
 momentary relief may not be secured. Still the case may be one of heat 
 only. Say that you now wring the towel out and bind it around the whole 
 head, taking care to cool chiefly the back part of the head up to the crown. 
 It does not take near the effort to do this which it takes to keep tossing in bed 
 for a (|uarter of an hour. Do not spare the cooling, but let it be carefully and 
 thoroughly done. It will not be a matter of two or three seconds, nor will it 
 be done by an apj)lication that scarcely cools the outside of the hairs on the 
 head, but it will be done witli what is very small trouble compared with that 
 which is cured. It will be done too, without injuring so much as an atom of 
 the living system. 
 
 It is not like the night ca|) of the drunkard who lies down every night 
 dosed to rest by alcohol, and perhaps wilh tobacco too. These narcotics give 
 relief only in so far as they inflict injury. Th(.' cooling of the overheated s|)ine, 
 or brain, does no injury whatever and it gives an infmitely better kind of rest. 
 Mut I must go on to consider certain cases of restlessness in which there 
 is no extra heat in either spine or brain. Tea may have been taken in a rather 
 strong infusion, or so late that its peculiar influence may be the cause of the 
 tossing of the restless person who has taken it. It is necessary to avoid this 
 beverage if such restlessness is to be escaped; still it will generally be found 
 
54 
 
 A LESSON ON RESTLESSNESS. 
 
 that in cases in wiiich tea has caused serious wakefulness and restless tossing, 
 that there is more than the mere effect of the herb, and that superabundant 
 heat is present also. To the extent to which it is so, the appliance already 
 pointed out will give relief. The almost, or altogether involuntary tossing of 
 the restless patient shows that the spinal nerves are overheated, and it will 
 probably calm down their action in spite of the influence of the tea, if they are 
 cooled down. 
 
 I am dwelling on these comparatively trivial phases of restless .-.s that 
 the reader may learn to see through those which are far more serious, by means 
 of such as are not so. Now let us take an instance in which it seems to be 
 the mind that causes the tossing rather than the body. Preachers, for example, 
 after earnest i)reaching are in many cases sleepless, and restless too. So are 
 almost all j)ersons when currents of exciting thought have been set agoing in 
 their minds. Tht;n, no doubt, it is necessary to get at relief from the spiritual 
 side, by means of thought fitted to calm down the excitement that has been 
 raised. But it is never well to forget that in all such cases there is a material 
 as well as a spiritual aspect of the experience. It is because of the state of 
 the brain that the thoughts will run on at express speed in spite of all efforts 
 to arrest them; audit is because the brain in that state excites tlie spinal 
 nerves, that there is tossing to and fro of the bodily frame. It will be well if 
 such thoughts of the peace-giving Saviour can be given as will spread relief 
 over the mind, but it will be well, too, if such treatment of the brain itself can 
 be given as will tend to calm down the excited state of that organ. The rest- 
 less one should accept of (lod's double remedy in such a case. 
 
 In a sitting bath, such as many preachers take before going to bed after 
 a day of service, it is delightful to find that somehow when you are sitting in 
 the cool water, the overdriven brain begins to slacken pace, or if you will, the 
 overdriven mind Ix^gins to do the same. The sign of these slackenings is fre- 
 (juently this; all thoughts of a distressing kind begin to give way to thoughts 
 of a comfortmg character. If from any cause you are restless and cannot lie 
 still, even after the head and sj)ine have been cooled as I have described, it 
 is well to take a sitting bath in cold water for half an hour, dry and wraj) u[) 
 well and you will be (]uiet after. 
 
 Assuming that this little volume will fall into the hands of some persons 
 who do not understand how to take a sit/, bath. It is on this principle that I 
 am desirous at present of giving some remarks on the cold sitting bath as a 
 remedy of very great value. Any one who can have a small tub in wl ich he 
 
HOW TO CURE A RESTLESS AND UNEASY FEELING. 
 
 55 
 
 IS tossing, 
 ahuiKlant 
 u already 
 tossing of 
 nd it will 
 F they are 
 
 s .-.s that 
 hy means 
 ns to be 
 
 example, 
 I. So are 
 agoing in 
 e spiritual 
 
 has been 
 I material 
 ' state of 
 all efforts 
 
 le spinal 
 i)e well if 
 ead relief 
 
 itself can 
 
 The rest- 
 
 bed after 
 
 sitting in 
 1 will, the 
 iigs is fre- 
 
 thoughts 
 cannot lie 
 ■irrii)ed, it 
 1 wraj) up 
 
 e persons 
 pie that I 
 bath as a 
 w'. irh he 
 
 can sit with his feet out and on the floor, may have such a bath. It is only 
 sitting down in a little cold water with the feet out on the floor that constitutes 
 the treatment of which I write here. I am particular about this placing of the 
 (cct, inasmuch as there have been some j)atients who sat down, or at least tried 
 to sit down, with the feet in the tub, and who declared the thing very uncom- 
 tortable. It must not be taken for granted that most people know what you 
 moan when you speak of a sitz bath. But now, assuming that the thing is 
 understood to be essentially a sitting in cold water with the feet out, I may go 
 i)n to speak of the most important thing to be considered when such a bath is 
 needed. That is the degree of vital action possessed by the person who is to 
 l)c sul)jected to this bath. That may be a very high degree, or it may be a 
 \cry low one. If it is high, then the bath may be a deep one and long con- 
 tinued. If the degree of vital action is low, the bath must be a shallow one, 
 and its duration very brief. It may l)e fort) minutes in one case, and must 
 not be more than two minutes, perha[)s not more than one minute in another 
 
 I''()r instance, you may have a strong man whose brain is in a highly 
 irritable condition, and he has vital action sufficient to heat up a large l)ath of 
 cold water to his own blood temperature, or near it. He may be greatly 
 l)cnef'ted by a fuH hour in a cold sitz bath twice a day. This has been proved 
 many times ()\er. Then you may have a thin woman who has beeti reduced 
 and weakened by discharges that have nearly run all her life energy awa\- 
 She may be actually save<l by fretjuent cold sitz baths, but they nnist not 
 e\("eed two minutes at the utmost — perhajis tliry must be limited to one 
 minute only. A cold sit/ bath of twenty minutes to such ajjatient will do her 
 very serious injury. There are many cases in strong j)ro()f of this. So far we 
 ari' kee|)ing in sight the simi)le sitting bath by itself alone. 
 
 lUit now let us go a stej) further. If the fei't. instead of being placed on 
 the floor, are put into a small foot bath of ver\- warm water, that will sui)|)ly so 
 much vital action as will enable the patient to take much more of the bracing 
 intUience of the cold application. I'>'.jn with this and plenty of nice blankets 
 keeping the rest of the body warm, two minutes cold may be all that can be 
 enjoyed by a ver) thin woman sufferer. But these two minutes may be life 
 itself in the case recjuiring treatment. The skillful healer will consider what 
 ri\u be secured of bracing cold to relaxed vessels with the aid of heat to the 
 feet in this way, and the cold will do its work well and all the better that the 
 feet an- thus kept extra warm. But there is another thing conneded with this 
 
5^> 
 
 A LESSON ON RESTLESSNESS. 
 
 cold of very great moment. It is not applicable in cases in which long sitz 
 baths are called for, but it is indispensable in those cases in which only very 
 short ones can be taken with advantage. In certain relaxed states of vital 
 organs they refuse to be braced unless a stream of cold water can be poured 
 u|)on them, but they contract and become all right in a few moments if cold 
 pouring is used. Now this must be a brief process. Half a minute in pouring 
 is a long time, but the half of that will be sufificient in many vastly important 
 cases. We shall say that the patient is just seated in a shallow sitting bath, 
 that is, the water is not above six inches deep when raised by the patient sit- 
 ting in it; the fetit are in w^arm water, and say two jugfuls of cold water are 
 poured from a foot of height or so over the parts recjuiring to be contracted; 
 this pouring may be done in a (juarter of a mmute, and the whole bath may 
 not be above two minutes long, yet great good may be secured in a case in 
 which vital action is exceedingly low. 
 
 I am writing in view of cases in which a too long bath has made the 
 patient seriously worse, and when a two minutes bath has been adopted, the 
 case has turned out well and at once, so that friends called to advise in such 
 cases may know that even one minute may be sufficient to cure, if a bath of 
 this duration is often used, and hence that they need not despond if longer 
 baths should have seemed to do harm only. The secret of success lies in 
 fairly measuring the degree of bracing cold that can be brought to bear on the 
 one relaxed organ without producing such a general chill as injures the whole 
 system. 
 
 Many a life is melting away which might be at once renewed by nothing 
 more mysterious than a cold sitting bath. Only when that is unskillfuly done 
 will there be any injury when; there might be benefit. No amount of "quinine 
 and iron" that can be swallowed will help in the slightest degree, where a two 
 minutes sitting bath in cold water, with half a minute's i)our, and the feet in 
 warm water, would put all right very soon. Such very short l)aths would be 
 well to be taken twice or thrice a day, but the time is so short that is really 
 recjuired, that need be no hardship. There are, no doubt, i)atients so shiverish 
 that they cannot even think of a cold sitting bath, and yet they need such an 
 ai)|)lication gently. 'I'hey may prefer to be ill on "medicine and claret" to 
 being well by means of the cold sitting bath, and in that case they must have 
 their own way. Hut especially if the feet are placed in a little warm bath and 
 the cold water poured in only gradually, and afterwards poured over (|uickly, 
 
:h long sitz 
 ;h only very 
 ates of vital 
 be poured 
 ents if cold 
 t in pouring 
 : important 
 sitting i)ath, 
 patient sit- 
 d water are 
 contracted ; 
 -' bath may 
 n a case in 
 
 made the 
 ;Iopted, the 
 ise in such 
 f a bath of 
 d if longer 
 ess lies in 
 )ear on the 
 ! the whole 
 
 HOW TO CURE A RESTLESS AND UNEASY FEELING. 
 
 57 
 
 the bath will soon be as much relished as it was dreaded before. The result 
 is worth a great deal of endurance in the remedy, but all the endurance is 
 trifling indeed. 
 
 The Lord Jesus when he asked the labouring and heavy laden to come 
 to Him and have rest, gave them all bodily rest first, and then rest in the soul. 
 We fail sadly to see His full excellence when we think of one side only of the 
 peace He bestowed. I trust that these few hints may prove useful to afflicted 
 ones, and also to those who long to be helpful to others who are distressed. 
 
 by nothing 
 llfuly done 
 f "quinine 
 here a two 
 the feet in 
 would be 
 X is really 
 3 shiverish 
 d such an 
 claret" to 
 must have 
 1 bath and 
 -^r quickly, 
 
S8 
 
 A FEW USEFUL GERMAN RECEIPTS. 
 
 HOW THE GERMANS PREPARE THEIR MEAT IN THE SUMMER. 
 
 'J'hey will kill a hog just any time right in the hot weather; and when it 
 cools they will cut it up in four or six pound pieces and put them on in a large 
 boiler or kettle, and boil them until they arc nicely cooked througli ; not for- 
 getting to put in salt when boiling. 'I'hen they lift the pieces out of the l)oiler 
 and pack them in a large cro('k, and cover the meat with boiling hot vinegar. 
 You can throw in a few cloves if desired. I think this is an excelletit receipt 
 for farmers' wives and others in the hot weather, to keep them from cooking 
 meat every day, as this is to he eaten cold. 
 
 The Germans also fatten and kill their geese and prejiare them for meat 
 in the harvest time. Rememhrr they are not cooked at all, and the lightest 
 of them will weigh about twenty-eight pounds; how is that for a dutch goose? 
 Well, they make a regular job of it, just about as the farmers do here with their 
 hogs. They take a day late in the fall, or a short time before christmas, and 
 kill them and clean them properly; that is, they take off the feathers and clean 
 the skin thoroughly, then they draw them and cut off the head, neck and legs 
 and a piece of the wings, as much as you wish. Then they split them down 
 the back bone and front, so they have them just in two halves or [)ieces, then 
 they take white paper and wrap these halves uj) each in a pai)er by itself and 
 hang them in the smokehouse till harvest time. Then take one half at a time 
 and take the paper off, and slice it up for the harvest gang, the one-half will 
 satisfy ten or twelve working hands; it is a great api)etizer. 
 
 They also use the lean part of a ham raw. They sli(X' it up thin, take off 
 the rind, and eat it with sugar spread over it thinly and a dust of j)epper. 
 My opinion is that these dishes and some other habits that the Germans have, 
 account for the strength of that nation. 
 
 iiore o 
 ind ma 
 hry eai 
 ,\-.tem 
 
 •at the 
 ii;iny o 
 )(itatoei 
 )ake th 
 luni ju 
 ivith, m 
 iicely 
 
 Th 
 viy thai 
 ui)le. 
 hralth. 
 ^'Lt any 
 iDwels. 
 ri.nht in 
 ease th.f 
 through, 
 liad to a 
 (live till 
 
 THE APPLE. 
 
 A Physician has been heard to say that the apple will cure nearly all ills 
 that flesh is heir to, and it is the opinion of the writer that if jieople in general 
 only knew how good baked a[)ples were for the human system, they would use 
 
 It i 
 
 \cnted I 
 oxide ol 
 results. 
 of the c 
 in maki 
 
 TO PV 
 
 Ta 
 line, an 
 remedy 
 
5UMMER. 
 
 Liiul when it 
 in in a large 
 gli ; not for- 
 ;)f the l)oiler 
 hot vinegar. 
 I lent receipt 
 om cooking 
 
 em for meat 
 
 the lightest 
 
 utch goose? 
 
 re with their 
 
 istmas, and 
 
 rs and clean 
 
 ck and legs 
 
 them down 
 
 )ieces, then 
 
 y itself and 
 
 ilf at a time 
 
 ne-half will 
 
 in, take off 
 of |)e])|)er. 
 mans have. 
 
 arly all ills 
 in general 
 would use 
 
 USEFUL (;erman receipts. 
 
 59 
 
 nore of them. Especially for children, give them plenty of baked apples 
 11(1 make it a rule to see that they eat a baked apple in the morning before 
 lit y eat anything else, and you will fmd it a good regulator for the whole 
 ,v>tem throughout, and if adults would have them constantly on the table and 
 it them often in the place of pickles, my oj)inion is there would not be so 
 iiany on the sick list; and occasionally eat them for dinner in the place of 
 jotatoes, with meat, you will find them very nourishing and healthy. Just 
 )ake them with the skin on, wi[)e them clean and put them in a pan and bake 
 In m just as they are, and then do not look for cream and sugar to eat them 
 villi, my opinion is that they are healthier just off the stem as they are, when 
 licely baked. 
 
 There was a lady told me when I was (juite young, that she heard a person 
 >ay that a dish of baked apples was the healthiest dish you can set on the 
 table. I also knew another lady who had a fine little girl just the ()iclure of 
 icalth. That child had to eat a baked apj)le every morning before she would 
 ^'Lt anything else to eat ; her mother said it was to keej) her regular in her 
 )owels. I know a j)hysician myself, who had a number of cases of small-pox 
 ri^lit in the depth of winter, and the neighbours were so timid about the dis- 
 
 ase that they would not go near them, and the physician brought them 
 through, and their principal food was baked apples and bread and the Doctor 
 
 id to attend to the baking of them himself too, and attend the sick as well, 
 (live the apples a fair trial and you will be convinced. 
 
 TO PREVENT BLACK KNOT. 
 
 It is said that black knot on i)lum and cherry trees can be not only j)re- 
 
 ented from spreading, Init actually killed, l)y simply painting them with red 
 
 oxide of iron in linseed oil. The writer has tried this receipt with \ery good 
 
 r(;sults. And as the disease is making great havoc of the fruit trees in all parts 
 
 if the country, when this simple remedy is so effective, no time should be lost 
 
 1 making the application. 
 
 TO PREVENT INSECTS FROM STINGING PLUMS AND OTHER 
 
 FRUIT. 
 
 Take new dry lime, sulphur and gunpowder, e(|ual parts pulverized very 
 line, and dust it among the flowers when in full bloom. I have tried this 
 remedy myself and did not have the gunpowder, and it worked well that year. 
 
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 USEFUL GERMAN RECEIITS. 
 
 Mix all three together on a plate or in a dish, and take a spoon and throw it 
 freely among the flowers when in full bloom so that all may catch a littk. 
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 Darkness is not good in a sick room unless the patient wishes. There is 
 nothing so melancholy as a dark sick room ; it is as if the attendants wen 
 anticipating the death of the patient; and if the reason he asked, the answer 
 is as inconsistent as the act. The reason usually offered is that the patient 
 cannot hear the light; as though the light could not be cut off from the patient 
 by a curtain or screen.^ and as though to darken one part of the room it were 
 necessary to darken the whole of it. The real reason is said to be an old 
 sui)erstitious practice which once prevailed so intensely that the sick, suffering 
 from the most terrible diseases, smallpox, for instance, were shut up in dark 
 ness, their beds surrounde<l with red curtains, during the whole of their illness. 
 The red curtains are now pretty nearly given up, but the darkness is sti 
 accredited by some to have some mysterious curative power. 
 
 A more injurious practice really could hardly be maintained than that ot 
 darkness in the sick room. It is not only that dirt and disorder are the result 
 of darkness, but a great remedy is lost. Sunlight diffused through a room 
 warms and clarifies the air. It has a direct influence on the minute organic |^jj^^ 
 poisons, a distinctive influence which is most precious, and it has a cheerful 
 effect upon the mind. The sick should never be gloomy, and in the presence 
 of the light the shadows of gloom fly away. Happily the hospital ward, not 
 withstanding its many defects, and it has many, is so far favored that it v j|^y 
 blessed with the light of the sun whenever the sun shines. In private home> 
 the same remedy ought to be extended to the patients of the household. 
 
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 SOME GOOD ADVICE. 
 
 These are maxims that are said to have been found in a dead man's 
 )o(ket. If we would each carry them in our pockets and profit by them, the 
 world might be revolutionized. 
 
 Keep good company or none. Never be idle. 
 
 If your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend to the cultivation of 
 vour mind. 
 
 Always si)eak the truth. Make few j)romises. 
 
 Live up to your engagements. 
 
 Keep your own secrets if you have any. 
 
 When you speak to a person look him in the face. 
 
 Good company and good conversation are the very sinews of virtue. 
 
 Good character is above all things else. 
 
 Your character cannot be essentially injured except by your own acts. 
 
 If anyone speaks evil of you, let your life be so that none will believe 
 
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 Drink no kind of intoxicating licjuors for it always injures in some way. 
 
 Ever live (misfortune excepted) within your income. 
 
 When you retire to bed, think over what you have been doing during the 
 
 Make no haste to be rich, if you would prosper. 
 
 Small and steady gains give competency with tranciuility of mind. 
 
 Never play at a game of chance. 
 
 Avoid temptation, through fear you may not withstand it. 
 
 Earn money before you spend it. 
 
 Never run into debt unless you see plainly a way to get out again. 
 
 Never borrow, if you can possibly avoid it. 
 
 Do not marry until you are able to support a wife. 
 
 Never speak evil of anyone. Be just and generous. 
 
 Read over the above maxims occasionally and profit by them. 
 
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INDEX. 
 
 1. Lksson on Consumption, . . . . . 
 
 II. Anoihkr Lesson on Consumption, 
 
 III. Another Lesson on Cgnsumj'iujn, 
 
 1\'. Lesson on Decline, . . . . . 
 
 V. Lesson on Consumptive Fever, - . . 
 
 VL Lesson on Inei.ammation ok the Lun(js, 
 
 V'll. Lesson on Hi.eeuino from the Lun(;s, 
 
 Vin. Lesson on Couohinc; ; or Cold Sitting Down, 
 
 LX. Lesson on Injecting Morphia, . . . . 
 
 X. Another Lesson on Consumption, and how lo Handle 
 THE Consumptive, - - . . 
 
 XI. Lesson on Bathing the Entire Person, and how to do rr, 
 
 XIL Lesson on Bathinc; the Feet; or how ro cure Cold Feet, 
 
 XIII. Lesson on how to cure a Restless and Uneasy Feeling, 
 
 XIV. Useful (Ier.man Receipts, - - - . . 
 XY. Some Cood Advice, ... 
 
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