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Show liCassage for Consumption. The application of massage to consumptive consump-tive patients, it In claimed by Dr. David n ard, a physician of over thirty years' practlco nnd a member of th'o County Medical society, has been tried by hlrn with uuqcoEuful results. Cod liver oil, Dr. Ward says, is a usoful palliative for tho Ions of weight duo to tho inability of tho system to assimilate fats, but It Is a palliative- only. Remedies arc needed to lm-piove lm-piove tho pa.tlent'B capacity to digest and aHsimllato fata occurring in food nnd If passible restore the ability to davelop fntty matter, from the food elements. Two remedies which he says aro better than cod liver oil aro vorbascum thansua and stlcta pulmonnrlfl. Of tho former he eays ho cannot speak too highly, New York Dispatch. |