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n. Also mix Radway's Relief with a little sweet-oil, bathe the chest, 

 stomach, sides, and along the back-bone before going to bed, and take a drop or 

 two inwardly, in a little syrup or honey. 



Remarks. — This will be found valuable, but it would be better to allow it 

 to stand 3 or 4 days before using. 



1. CHOLERA— Drops and Po^rder for, also Valuable for 

 Colic, Diarrhea, etc. — Alcohol, 3^ pt. ; gtmi myrrh, 1 oz. ; gum guaiac, J^ 

 oz. ; gum camphor, capsicum, and opium, each, 1 dr Directions. — Mix, 

 and keep in a well-stoppered bottle, shaking often for 10 or 12 days, when it 

 will be ready for use. Dose. — A tea-spoonful in well sweetened water; or, 

 what is better, use sugar alone, just enough to absorb all the drops, and not use 

 any water. 



II. For the Powder. — By omitting the alcohol in the above, and pulveriz- 

 ing each article, the medicine can be used as a powder, 10 grs. being a dose; or 

 the same may be made into pills of 4 grs., 3 pills 'or a dose. 



Remarks. — Dr A. B. Mason, of Toledo, O., of whom I obtained this 

 recipe, says: The above has twice saved my life when attacked by cholera. I 

 have never known it to fail in giving aln".ost immediate relief in all cases of 

 colic, diarrhea, dysentery, cholera-morbiis and cholera. In the summer of '77 

 I cured a lady of the regular dysen^^ery, who had been doctored for four weeks 

 bj" one of the best doctors in a ciiy of 20,000 inhabitants, and then lived along 

 for four weeks more without a doctor, every one saying she could not live long. 

 The night I gave her this medicine was the first good night's rest she had had 

 for weeks. In two days all discharges were stopped, and I gave asmall dose of 

 podophyllin, and in eight days she was well, and was soon in better health than 

 for years before. In this case I used the medicine in the form of a powder. 

 In severe cases, he says, repeat the dose often, and even give two times the 

 above dose. If vomited up as soon as taken, repeat the dose. The utmost 

 confidence may be put in this treatment. 



2. Cholera, Infallible Cure for.— Gen. Jordan, of the Mining 

 Record, makes the following statement in relation to the infallible cure of chol- 

 Ci'a by the use of chloroform only. It is somewhat strange that such facts as 

 here stated should not become generally known quicker than they do; still I 

 can not doubt their being facts, and as I know that a doz^i drops 

 of chloroform, in a little water, will at once correct a gaseous condition of a 

 dyspeptic stomach (which see), why should it not correct a much more disturbed 

 condition, by using larger quantities? I would certainly "go for it," on the 



'double quick" if occasion called for it. He says: 



" A 1^ tea-spoonful of chloroform in about eight times as much water is an 

 infallible cure for cholera. A doctor who had lived in Mobile, Ala., and had 

 great success in curing people during a cholera epidemic there, told me about 

 it. When, in the Cuban revolution, I went to Cuba to help organize the insur- 

 gent army, 1 had a chance to try the remedy, for a cholera epidemic broke out 

 among the troops. My first experiment was on a negro who was in the last 

 stages. It cured him and hundreds after him. When we marched, the officers 

 carried bottles of chloroform, and if a man fell out, sick wita cholera, the 

 remedy was given and he was able to resume his place. 1 have seen men lying 



