Show some horrors of quackery ackery the old proverb any port in a storm has often found practical illus tra tion in the empirical treatment of disease time was when even regular practitioners in the art of healing included in their air professional armament along with many simple remedies of real value other matters the very mention of which might almost suffice to engender illness we may fe feel e I 1 thankful that we have now entered upon a later and more scientific era and that such extraordinary drugs as weasels gizzards giz does hoofs snails and other even mor more r repulsive e horrors do not now find a place in in any pharmacopoeia there still exists however a species of medical folklore and some of its prescribed wis wisdom dom available for use in illness is of tai tha mos most t remarkable remar bable kind bind times of pan panis by throwing a tion to som some e entena on its own resources for treatment are apt to create a demand for these survivals of a dark age this happened lately in germany where a toad cooked with much care was swallowed as a cure for cholera As to the result we are not informed most of us na would probably choose to suffer rather thau thus attempt our own relief lon loa ton ion lancet Ia |