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Show TOBACCO AS A POULTICE. . "Last summer I was taking a spin one day In a slight trap out In the country, coun-try, and In attempting to pass a farmer's far-mer's wagon on a narrow road my trap was overturned and I was thrown heavily to the gvound, sustaining a badly sprained ankle," M,r. George Maxwell Max-well says. "The farmer came running up to assist me, and when he found what was the mniter, returned to his wagon and came back with a few tobacco to-bacco leaves under his arm. 'If you'll let me make a poultice out of these and place It on your ankle it will be all right in the morning,' he bald, and as I was about Ive miles from a doctor's office, with the pain in my ankle something some-thing fierce, I told him to go ahead. It couldn't do me any harm, I thought, and It might have a sligntly cooling effect ef-fect while I was driving back to town. He dipped' the leaves In the water of a creek nearby, then bound them tightly around my ankle, with the aid of a handkerchief, and assisted me into my vehicle. When I reached my rooms I was surprised to find that the pain In my ankle was very much lessened, and decided to give the poultice a fair trial. In the morning when I awoke there was absolutely no pain 1 1 my ankle whatever what-ever and only the slightest suggestion of a swelling, t was able to don my shoes without trouble, and that day attended at-tended to business ns though nothing had befallen me. Since then one of my friends suffered a sprain, and consented to have a leaf tobacoo poultice applied, which resulted In his case Just as it had In mine. I have also tried it in other instances of slisht Injury, whre there was pain and danger of swelling, and have found that Invariably It relieved the pain within a remarkably short space of time and generally prevented any swelling. - A friend of mine claims to have tried it with good results for a slight attack of rheumatism, end I have no doubt that It actually did what he claims for it, but, at any rate, for sprains' or similar Inlurles I am now a firm advocate of the simple, homely remedy to which I was Introduced by my accident In the country a few months ago." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. . . |