A SIMPLE AND INEXPENSIVE MEDICINE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 1 July 1907, Page 4

A SIMPLE AND INEXPENSIVE MEDICINE.

To the Editor. ►Sir, —In the domain of medicine llu simplest remedies aie the niosi ciieetive. A responsibly writer iu the Baltimore ftun, a layman Lml a close student oi hygiene, mentions one such remedy for neuralgia and acute indication, and declares that he lium proveii il.> cllic.icy in ins own case and in that of numerous others. "Iu middle age/' lie says "l a martyr to neuralgia, indigestion, and dyspepsia. None ot the doctors 1 consulted and s«»me were and are eminent and famous—eouid give me any permanent relief. Several times 1 resorted to otherwise 1 should have gone mad witli pain. At last a friend told me that a learned physician of Augusta, <!a., Dr. JJiigas, had declared that a tea*p(iontul of common table salt, dissolved in a tumblerful of water, eool but not cold, drunk immediately before breakfast, on au empty sloiuach, was a genuine and effective remedy. 1 made the experiment, and from thai time to the prc>enl. twenty odd years, I have never suffered from neuralgia, or dyspepsia. As the "martyrs" to neuralgia, dyspepsia and indigestion are legion, the simplicity of lids alleged cure should not deter them from giving it a trial. It is, at tiie very least, an inexpensive as well as an innoxious ivmedv. — I am, etc.. ' WULAXTHUui'IST.