DEFIANCE OF SMALLPOX.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 72, 30 July 1913, Page 2

DEFIANCE OF SMALLPOX.

EVIDENCE FROM OLD-TTMI C Y CLOPA EDI A.

ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN” CURES

(By JAY.)

It is now a considerable time since I have had anything in the columns of the “Post”; and it is through no effort of mine that I am now allowed co obtrude myself on the attention of a wise and discriminating public. The most marvellous literary genius that •ver was (whoever he was—certainly iot me) could not sit down and write i couple of columns about nothing at ill, and even if he did manage to do so and still retain sufficient sanity to guarantee that he did not lose his liberty, it is highly probable that no self-respecting journal would pay for it. I am enabled to make a further appearance in print as a result,of the smallpox scarce. Ido not suggest that feveriohly-expectant public will not deep quiet o’ nights until it heart vhat I have to say about smallpox; >ut 1 do know that anything hearing wen indirectly on the question is iable to be read and, as a matter ol •curse, be paid for by the press. It’s dl ill wind that blows no good; it is m onkus wind (to say the least about t) that blows all the good into only mo quarter; and it is quite up to the anal I pox wind to blow some of the ommon or garden variety of half lollar (the price of which keeps steady ,t half a crown) in the direction of ho oversigned patient seeker after mmortality and dodger impecunios■ty-

THE ORDEAL OF VACCINATION. I got vaccinated on Saturday mornng and so far have lived happy ever ifter. But not everybody is prepared ightly to undergo the operation, hough as a matter of fact it lasts mly two ticks more than the small half >f no-time and causes just a little less oain than seeing the outsider carrying /our next month’s wages pipped for second place. Nevertheless, local decors, were they not bound to secrecy, •ould “a tale unfold” about the ridiulous fear of certain parties, who dr ould have known better—of the man vho collapsed after the operation and he sundry ladies who fainted before, ifter and during the operation. They ould also probably toll how the chil[ren took it quietly and calmly. Which cems to show that the less you think bout it and the sooner you do it, he better it will be. Some unfprunat.es, certainly, have suffered, some rain from after-effects; but it is ; someyhat better to be ill a short time qi' ■accination than dead for ever land a it of smallpox. “Them’s my! sediumts,” as Artemus Ward tv quid say.

ENCYCLOPAEDtOSITY. 1 There is no other shorter word for t ,aond so thet octosyllabic word must ie used. It is meant to denominate he malady with which that numerous ml bothersome entity Johnny Knowtil is afflicted. Who . has not met fohnny? You see him all over the •hop! and the extent aud variety ol u’s knowledge is bewildering. There ire people who can toll you the names rf all the Kings of England, ,who know tow many grains of gold there are in i ton of sea-water, who know why Pur key was beaten, who can tell how nany sovereigns laid next to one anchor it would take to circle the /lobe at the Equator, who can tell •xactly why the Victoria bridge reliains nnwidened, who can quote the .vinner of the New Zealand Chip in any riven year, and who, generally, make a point of remembering things more or ess useful. Sometimes Johnny says: ‘I will set down in writing all I mow, and sign it.” Then we get an Encyclopaedia. And what is it that he Encyclopaedia doesn’t know? It ;eems to know everything. The one vhich has called forth this effusion moms to know pretty well everything ihout everything. It is called “Dr. blank's Recipes” and the following headings will indicate how widely read the good doctor was: “Drowned Persons—Rules for Resuscitating,” “Pulnonary Consumption—Absolute Prevention of,” “Plum Pudding No. ” md Sweet Sauce for Same,” “Borax is a Tooth Powder or ior 'Washing he Teeth,” “Renovating Dye for Mack Clothing, to he Applied only on he Outside,” “Dogs, Cats, Hogs and Torses —to Drive off Fleas on,” “Bed Tugs—to Destroy,” “Fly StickumTst—Not Poisonous,” “Hair and Hand Dressing—Home-Made Perfume -Very Fine,” “Creamery, the Management and Advantage of in Butternaking,” “What makes a Horse •ihy, and How to Avoid it.” “Kicking Cows—to Make Stand Quiet,” “Silos and Ensilage—-What They Are— How it is Done—What They Think of it in Vermont,” “Sheep—More Made upon them than upon Horses,” md so on and so on. And. in view of the omniscience of the learned Doctor, who can disregard his word about smallpox? His remarks are interesting and worth reading. There is no intention by the abovesigned, as may perhaps he supposed, to decry the worthy Doctor or poke sulphuretted tincture of borax at him ; hut it is just ;is well that his remarks may be taken cum grano sodium chloride. Note;—A little medical jargon now and then is understood by the wisest men. The Doctor’s remarks are here quoted:

MALL-POX—A CERTAIN CTUE. Win. Crandv. of Detroit, oommuni-

r-jitpd llio following item of Air Hines' to tiie Detroit “Tribune,” which lie had seen in the Toronto “Weekly Hlolte.’’ with these remarks: Smallpox- being so fatal and so much feared. an unfailing remedy like the following. eo simple and so safe, once discovered, might to he brought to the knowledge of the masses without hesitation or delay. “T am willing,” says Edward Hines, “to risk my reputation as a public man if the worst ease

of smallpox cannot be cured in three days simply by cream of tartar. Thu is the sure and never-failing remedy: Cream of tartar loz., dissolved in boiling water, I pint; to be drank when cold, at short intervals. It can be taken at any time and is a P 1 8 * ventative as well as a curative. It is known to have cured thousands of cases without fail. I hara myself restored hundreds by this moans. It never leaves a mark, never causes blindness, and always prevents cedious lingering.” Remarks (by the Encyclopaedist) Although this seems to be very strong language, yet I have never seen it disputed, nor have I seen by any reports of cases that it has been adopted in this country; but, a* it is deemed very important to keep the bowels in a solvent condition in this disease, no better and no safer medicine can bo adopted for tbi* purpose. Let it be used, by all mean*.

SMALLPOX—A CURE FOR, OR RELIEF IN.

As the prevention or cure of this disease is a question that concerns •very person, we take the following from the New York ‘‘Journal of Comnenal,” one of the most conservative and reliable dailies published in this rounry: “A lady, the mother of six children, had often sought relief for a oaiu in the hack by taking saltpeter uid brandy. She.was exposed to the miallpox and contracted the disease. I'he premonitory symptoms were violent fever, severe pain in the head and ’xcrutiatiug pains in the region of the kidneys. A physician was called in during the night, but in doubt as to the nature of the disease, though inspecting it to he a case of smallpox, ie made no prescription, promising to return eariy next morning. The fever and pain increasing, she begged her husband to prepare for her the ild proscription of saltpeter and brandy. The brandy was not to be bad, but lie crushed a piece of saltpeter as large as a common white bean. This she took in a teaspoonful of cold ,rater. Feeling better, the dose was mce or twice repeated. Pain soon subsided and she slept well during the •emaiuder of the night and awakened feeling perfectly well. She had 60 well defined pustules in her face, but they were but slightly inflamed and not at rill painful. The developments of smallpox on her entire person were n number and appearance in keeping with those on her face. In due time ill her children and her husband were Affected, as she had been, by fever and pair, in the back arid head. They received the same treatment with the same' favorably result. Several families caught the disease, used the same remedy, and ill every case the result was ! favorable. 1 ”-

! Remarks (by the’ Doctor): —Not long after preparing the above giveri, I saw I report that doctor* -were curing smallpox in three days, and no marks left,” by the use of cream of tartar and water, which would go to strengthen the idea that Mr Hines’ treatment above given is reliable.

ORIGIN OF VACCINATION. After giving items under the hiding.-' “Smallpox;' Pitting to Present,’ •‘Smallpox, 'to,.Proyqnt Pitting, practiced in the English Army ini China,” “Smallpox, the'Nitrate or Chloride, of Lead as a Disinfectant in” and “Smallpox. Prevented by Vaccination,” there' are the following illuminating remarks under the heading: “Smallpox, the Origin of Vaccination for” : Upon the question of vaccination 1 will give an item from “Leonard’s Medical Journal,” of Detroit, Mich., Oct. 1882, as to the origin of this practice; which, by this item, it

meins must now he given to woman—the milkmaid instead of Dr, Jenner, as heretofore accredited. That is, his mind was capable of grasping or comprehending the philosophy of the fact communicated by the maid, and out of that lie, Dr. Jenner, worked out the practice of vaccination which has saved millions of lives, no doubt;' but it should also teach us, what some physicians have already claimed to be important, , the fact that virus

from the cow or some young and heal thy animal should be used to vaccinate with, and not the virus from

the human subject, which, it has been churned, has conmnicated the disease' to those vaccinated with it. Jenner, no doubt, used the virus from the cow of the “maid.” Let others do the same from other cows. The poetry, it is claimed by tho abovenamed journal, is founded upon fact; but if it is not. it shows the greater power of the rhymer’s imagination. 1H E A FOR EMEN TIONED “POME.” ; ■‘Where are you going, my pretty milk-* maid F” “To see Doctor Jenner,” the milkmaid said, "I have such a cough, and it bothers

me so, I promised Jock Robin for sure that I’d go For a draught from the Doctor to- . day.” And she nodded her head with so saucy a, smile, That no one would think, who was looking the while, That she needed the Doctor, Ins pills, or his plaster, 1 doubt she could swear that she did, if you asked her: That sunny, bright morning in May. Ah! how little she thought, that unthinking. young lass, While her little pink feet went atrip o'er the grass, if Jock Robin had not been so true to his fancy, As to fear the least whisper of harm to his Xaney, The great loss ’twould have been to us all. Rut so it has proved such a number of times As I have not the space to recount in rhvmes,

Great events have beginnings sc small.

Well, to keep by my milkmaid (as Ion;, as I can), When she’d curtsied her best to the medical man, And iiad fold '(heaven bless her) how badly she felt.

With such pouting red lips, and such ruddy good health, As no doctor could hope to improve : She sat down to await his compounding her pill, And their chat led along to tho terrible ill That the smallpox was threatening to prove.

T)octor .Tenner looked grave -when sin mentioned the matter: He thought it too bad for so careles a chatter; (But saucy young Nancy had nothin to dread, “But few of the milkmaids would ge it,” she said, “For their hands had been son from the cows, And altho’ it was horrid to milk whei tho beast Hod her bag all broke out, it wa certain, at least, To keep the smallpox from th house.”

I hope Doctor Jenner, that morning i: May, When he finished her pills and the sent her away, Remembered enough of the lass an the stuff Not to give her a dose for a cow; For his mind went far off from the gi and the cough; But what does it matter, just now

For her few simple words, while sh waited, Oh think with how much they wer freighted, When Tenner’s quick mind the awakened, to find How science could conquer the fo And give every nation that blest Vat cination That takes out the sting from th blow. THE HEAD AND THE TAIL. Above-signed patient seeker aftc immortality now extends to lay dew his pen and breast up to the “Posf pay-counter. Ho had put a head an a tail on “these presents,” the 6mm; dent doctor having supplied that po' tion which has a horrid name, whic name can, however be translated “ii ternal apparatus;” but. above-signe and not the omniscient doctor, wh (knows everything about even thing from bed gugs-to beeves, will b .the central figure in tho pay-countr incident. But the doctor has this cor ■RelationThere is no intention t poke sulphuretted tincture of bora ,-at him, though, in common fairnes it must bo stated that all and am each and every statement should h taken cum grano sodium chloride.