Show INDIAN RE REMEDY MEDY FOR SMALL POX BY DK HERBERT MILES BURGEON IN THE tuc BRITISH arny ARMY early in the last winter a small co sting vessel landed a portion of her crew at an ask obscure village a few miles from hal hai tax fax N S there them perona per ons ona were a ck with ith emall email pox and be the disease soon spread first limona limong amona among the cottagers ta gers with whom the fia fis hemen hegen mixed and subsequently among amon those from the cap cagial ca ival ilal wl wio who o resorted to be he village for the purpose of trade through the early weeks of spring rumor constantly asserted that vast numbers of the population wt were 1 I aiU liw eked with the complaint but it was waa not until ariy arit arly early in march that the large civil if spital Hp spital ital itai of halifax by the number of ib Is admissions admission tor for began to corroborate the rumor and to authenticate the justice of public anxiety the disease dise ase aee I 1 in groces of time extended to the troops in the garrison while white certain c portions of the inhabitants of halifax were buitt irm from the alarming accounts reached that place relative to the tb terrible r of the scourge ascog the tho th indians and colored people generally variell is 8 the special plague of the indians and add when they are invaded by this pestilence it sweep sweet them th off ab by y scores cores 0 on this occasion occA alon aion the most painful details detail were given diven of whole families being c carried fit fir ed 0 off by this loathsome disease after some time it u was said that the disease was stayed one of the indian race it tys vvs ws asser asier asserted ted bai bal come into the disease stricken c imp possessed of a preparation which had th the extraordinary power of curing the kind of case cases bich had bith eito proved so fatal thi this 1 remedy was believed by the indians to be a si 3 efficacious emmi effi carious that if it given to them when atta atts attack cl cd ed ith iab with the pox they looked forward with bonfi ince to a speed speedy and effective cui cut caie cuie e an old weird indian woman was the fortunate possessor of the remedy in question she be had always been known as the doctress Doc tre of her tribe and hai haa enjoyed celebrity for many yea B s in consequence of her reputed knowledge of medicine and wonderful ac gualt anee with the herbs and roots f tt f tha the tb woods so well established was her fam fame amon the indians that when sick the resorted lo 10 her in preference to the white doctors whom they considered to be 11 no good capt 11 II ady of the royal Art artillery Mery an all accomplished complis hed and ad intelligent officer who wio has tor or thy years ears been among the indians Indi ans ars says saya that I the old a buawa baws remedy rems reme dy had long been known to them as an in allibee cure for small pox V and that the ibe indians believe it to be successful in every case from the information Ig gathered from among me the indians the following observation observations a have been carefully sifted I 1 in the case of an individual suspected te eft be under the influence of small email pox but with no distinct eruption upon him a large of an infusion of the root of the plant ea or pitcher plant is to tal be taken the effect ot of this dose is to bring out the eruption after a second and third dose doa given at intervals of aiom lou iou to bix eix hours the pustules pus tules nub kub subside side bide apparently loosing loo their vitality toe TOP patent reels better at the end of each dose and in the graphic expression pr casion tf t the knows knows there is ft it great cha clia ge in him lihn at once 21 1 2 la in a subject already covered with the tb eruption of small pox in the early stage SL a do dose e or two will dissipate the pustules pus tules tulea and kuba e tue the fes fel febrile arile lymp om the urine urino from being scanty and high colored be becomes colnes coines pale and abundant while from frum the first dose the patient I 1 feelings feeling assure him that the lh medicine ia is killing the disease 71 uder the influence of be the remedy in three or four days day the prominent symptoms of the constitutional disturbance subside although as a precautionary me nce tsure cure the hick tick person is 13 kept la 14 the camp till the ninth day da nom no th eruption as regards pitting etc have been left in cacs cases ex examined mined if treated by the dy 3 with wilb regard to the medicine acting air ft believed by he the indians iu in the way of a preventive in those ex bied to the in infection fiction it is curious to note rote in ill the camps where the remedy i is used the people keep a weak int sion lion of the I 1 lant p spared and take 21 dosa doa during the so as to keep kere kerp the antidote in the blood dru eif cle cu cufar pac lar frederick IT morris al resident phy alc bic an au of the halifax visiting D DB pensa r 3 in a letter fent rent to the tiie editor of 0 A the Ameri ame americal rican caa medical journal bays fays you lieve have probably beard heard something ot of an extraordinary extra ordnary dis dit discovery di covery for the cure of if smail dox pox tox fox by the use of ea 9 or anian nian alan cap for pitcher plant a native of nova scotia 1 I woud beg you however lo 10 give full publicity to the ast fact that this same humble bon bog bo plant is the remedy for small pox in all its forms in twelve hours after the patient has taken the nedi riedl ct a 0 it is ig also ao ai as curious as it is ebat lowbier loev ever eier and numerous ta rup crup c tio clo a I 1 QI qz confluent and frightful they may be lse the lie peculiar pc uliar ac ion of the med medicine icille is such that very is a scar luft left to tell the sto ry cf of the disease I 1 wil wll not enter upon a phy 1010 loio io loca ca els eis n now ow it will be sufficient fur for luy my purpose to state that it cures the tle disease as no other medicine does dees not by stimulating burc ional agency re but by actu alco tact lith mith with the vi rusin rubin rub rua in the bloof 1 rendering it inert and pain ebs less ess and V t is I 1 gather from the fact that if it either vaccine or va carilous var flous rilous ma matter ater be wabbe ei I 1 the infusion infuso on of the it ii ill deprived of its contagious property 0 I 1 I 1 the he d ce se of V t a medicine the powdered root is about a a d assert spoonful simmered in a pint int of ot water down to half haf s 1 pint this ia is divided into two doses one taken immediately the ather other in six hours no sugar shall bd ba given with wilh it the Sa son to believe to be a powerful tel tet all diseases lebra meas leg plague pl agua agus contagious contagions conta gions typhus and byr syr hites bites also alto a remedy for jaundice t WHY ia Is a blade ot of gnass like a note of 0 hand band because it is matured by falling failing ew du it if you have a large camly tamly 0 of vice 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