The Music Cure

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 24, 18 June 1908, Page 22

The Music Cure

According to reporters on the spot, the Cheviot earthquake cured an old-standing case of rheumatism-; toasting and perforating with long needles is the rather heroic Chinese ' remedy ' for the same obstinate malady; and Dr. Kaufmann, of Chicago, has been made Tjy the ' New York Herald ' responsible for" the statement that a timely flash of lightning cured a patient of 'his '(dh'e Mrs. Warren Williams) of- an apparently hopeless case of typhoid, complicated with blood-poisoning. It "reminds one of Panurge's cure through being paYtially roast alive by his Arab enemies. And now comes Dr. G-. Norman Meachen, who states that music, rightly applied, is a sovereign remedy fdr (among other 'things) toothache. Dr. Meachen's "prescription , gives a neV meaning to Congreve's line, that ' Musiq. -has 4V charms to ' soothe a savage breast '. 'It is said^, remarks <Ar-te= mlis Ward, ' that men in a savage state rieve'r h'ave^ tlie too'thachc. I have never seen any .one with -thetoothache who was not in a savage state ',