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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 16, 26 February 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE POTATO BATH. Tn a railway carriage* a medical man told a good story which had com t » within his own experience, A mother was frequent Iv bringing her child to him for troatuunt. hut tho doctor could discover nothing amiss, except its needi of a {rood wash- Sho was certain tho infant was suffering from some terrible complain!, and l>e.<rgod tho doctor to do h'f? host. Ho presc-r ilxul a daily wash with the water in wlrch potatoes had Iteon peeled. Never suspecting that this was nioioly a ruse to cot tho child washed. tho mother followed tho instructions to the letter rosy checks appeared. and a clean healthv-looking child gladdened tho mother's heart. Sho sounded the doctor's praises everywhere, and other mothers to tho efficacy of ootito water. Tb never occurre<l to h"r that, precisely tlio .-anin result would have followed the daily application of si an and \vat«r.