AN OLD WOMAN'S REMEDY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2029, 30 June 1885, Page 2

AN OLD WOMAN'S REMEDY.

Dr Amos Sawyer writes to the St, Louis Medical and Surgical Journal:-" About a quarter of a century ago, when giving me some good adyico for a young practitioner to follow, the late Dr B. :F. Edwards, of St. Louis, Mo., .'whose • accuracy in the measurement of the action of remedies, truth in statement and justice towards the members of the profession, made him a shining light im the early history of our state, among A other things said:- 1 Never make funo||L an old woman's remedy, for not only you give offence, and thereby injure. you# practice to the extent of ]\<% WWW\ but,you may throw away \Mnughtha.Ye proved upon trial to ha a valuable adjunct in your praptioe s ' He then cited this case to illustrate the. importance of hia injunction: <ln 1830,.while practisininn. Madison County, 111., I was induced by the representations of an old woman to make the trial, indysenteiyanddiarrhcM of tablespoonful doses of pure ciaW vinegar, with the addition of sufficient salt to be noticeable, and it acted bo. charmingly that I never used anything else.' He was prescribing it in. jfflO. making a period of forty years," '