"CAT"-APLASM.
[launceston chronicle.] Tlio following is a remarkable cure by odd means :—A fine young lad, son of Mr Browne, an employe at the Rail. way Station, accidentally broke his right arm, near the elbow some time ago, and the fracture was set and healed but the arm remained so stiff that he could not bend or make proper use of it. The stiffness was at the elbow joint and various means were tried to render the joint pliable. Alderman Drysdole happened to visit the lad on Saturday, and remembering a cure performed on a knee joint in Scotland many years ago, he prescribed the same remedy for the elbow joint. The prescription was an odd one certainly. A cat was obtained, killed, opened up, and the body, bowels included, placed and bound round the joint. The patient went to bed, and next morning on removing the cat poultice, he found the joint of his right arm as free and serviceable as the other. On Monday the lad, who last week was helplessly crippled, was employed to his own gratification cutting up firewood.
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1184, 12 June 1874, Page 3
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190"CAT"-APLASM. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1184, 12 June 1874, Page 3
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