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Show KILLIrlO TO CURE PATIENT. The llld-Timo Method or llleedlaa re, pi. to llealh. All kinds of cures for rheumatism, from liuklna to vibration, aie now being be-ing exploited This ll mar. Judging from the aii'iiunt nl simre devoted to It In the puhllc print.. Is getting to be more and more a common complaint. "Tip" seems to fslrly revel In new and wlerd cures for the affliction, and the patent medicine advertisement set forth a tempting list of remedies. Probably the reason that people with rheumatism did not talk so much about It In the old dnye wna for fear the doctor would lie called In. One haa only to look over an old medical book to re:ille that a visit from a doc-tor doc-tor a hundred years a go waa no Joke. Here ia a book on "The Practice of Physic." printed in Kdlnburgh In 17M a hundred and eeventeen yeara ago. It la written by the foremost doctor of hla time, William Cullen. prnfesanr in the University of Edinburgh, "First Physician to Ills Majesty In Scotland," and member of all the learned aorle-tlea. aorle-tlea. In Its dny "Cullen's First Lines" was the greatest medical test book in the English language. Now this Is what Dr. Cullen would havo done to "Tip or any other Becker after a cure for rheumatism. The learned doctor says: "The cure requires In the first place an antiphlogistic (Inflammation-ehecklno-t realme. and particularly a total abstinence from animal food and from all fermented or spirituous liquors; substituting a vegetable or milk diet. Illond-lettlnn Is the chief remedy In acute rheumatism. The blood ouiht to be d'awn in large quantity quan-tity and the bleeding to be repented In proportion to the frequency, fullness and hardness of the pulse and the vlo-Irnce vlo-Irnce of the pnln. For the most part large and repeated bleedings during the first days of the dlaesse seem to be necessary." In addition to these general gen-eral bleedings the doctor recommends local bleedings wherever there appears any "swelling or redness." New York :rw- |