A Novel Cure for Consumption.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 101, 8 May 1883, Page 2

A Novel Cure for Consumption.

An alleged case of the cure of consumption not many r miles from Keilding by the use of what we may tern) " dog lard," is probably not out-done by 'the recent invention of " cat butter" and " cockroach tea" &c, yet the following can be vouched 7 for oh good authority, ■and witnesses can; be brought foEwarcfito prove at. any .-rate the use of the singular remedy. Two children . b^lonzing]4o a settler who hails .from^a, certain nation on. the. continent': -I Euros"jrere. _ showing' all 'the ! symptoiis" of 'a"Ta^a decline. The advice of a! :V 'frisnd- ( bf>WLe^ same 'nationality .was asked, ' ' and) the article first-named in this paragrajibifflrfs indirectly suggested} without, Improver, the slightest idea being e.ni*rtained,ofa|s being; tried. < Spme month's "afterwards ft most; marked improvement was visible in the appearance of the patients,, and on ohqniry being ma de :|l ais ( tb the^cauee, the fact was elicited that their father had purchased for the sum of Ssj-ai-iviarjifttt specimen of the canine species, which, having tilled and dressed, and extracted all the fatty portion therefrom, had administered this tolhe t little : Buffe"rcrß, f wno were n6t J long in ' showing 1 sigs of greatly improved health and strength. 1 -? Our Amformant, who \s 'well-known, assures us of his fir;T>;. belief -that cod-liver oil is nowhere ; compared with the oleaginous extract of -puppy dog. - .-.-;:.■ L