J54 DR. CHA8WS RECIPES. 



BBIGHT»S DISEASE OP THE KIDNEYS.-A Novel Cfuro 

 for.. — A correspondent of the New York Evening Post gives the following 

 novel item to that journal. He says: 



"About 20 years ago, a daughter of mine — then about 6 years old — was 

 given up to die by the family physician, who said that she had Bright's Disease 

 of the Kidneys, and that it was incurable, and never known to be cured either 

 in Europe or America. The physician, on giving tlie case up, told my wife to 

 give the child anything that she wanted, and to make her as comfortable as 

 possible while she lived. The child constantly called for beans; so my wife 

 cooked some as quickly as possible, not stopping to parboil them, as is usually 

 done, but boiled beans, pork and potatoes together, in the first water, and when 

 well cooked she gave them to the child to eat. The child then went to sleep 

 and from that time began to improve. She Is now the mother of two children. 

 She is not troubled with the disea.se unless she takes a severe cold, and when 

 that happens she at once uses her old remedy, and it is always effectual. 



Remarks. There is nothing said here about continuing to eat the beans; 

 but I take it for granted that this was, and should be done in all cases ; and tell 

 me, pray! why beans should not have this power as well as any drug? And 

 it is admitted, as this writer says, that it is seldom, or never known to be cured. 

 Let this remedy, therefore, have more than a fair trial by a long continued use. 

 Beans are certainly a healthy and agreeable food for a general diet. But if 

 used especially for kidney difficulties keep all their virtues by not changing the 

 water. Beans over a year old are liable to become musty as well as doubly 

 hard, and unfit for this, or any other use. 



2. Bright's Disease — Sixteen out of Nineteen Cases in a 

 London Hospital Cured.— Notwithstanding the statement in the item 

 above, that Brights disease was never to be cured in Europe or America, still 

 some years ago a London (Eng.) physician reported in the London Lancet, th« 

 cure of 16 out of 19 cases, in the Hospital, by the use of 15 gr. doses of pow- 

 dered valerian, 3 or four times a day, with supporting diet. Now the fl. ex. 

 would be used, in >^ to 1 teaspoon doses, with the same effect; but I am not 

 aware of its having been used by others. But if one has the difficulty it had 

 better be tried, and may, with the beans, as above, cure more than without 

 them. 



QUINSY.— A New and Successful Remedy for.— A Dr. Gin©, 

 Professor of Clinical Surgery, at Madrid, Spain, reports through the La Presse 

 Med. Beige, July 17, 1881, the bicarbonate of soda (the common baking soda, 

 the best, however is the English bicarbonate, kept by druggists) applied to the 

 tonsils in fine powder in Quinsy, repeating frequently, is of inestimable effi- 

 cacy, he having cured dozens of cases — in no case vnthout benefit, and, usually 

 a cure in 24 hours ; and in no case when he had used it had he found it necei- 

 sary to remove the tonsUs. 



Directions foe Application. It may be applied by rolling a bit of 

 paper of suitable length into cylindrical form, then putting the end into a fine 

 powder of the soda, to get a suitable amount into the hollow, the size of an 

 ordinary goose quill and blowing it upon the tonsils; or applying it by wetting 

 the finger, then putting the finger into the powder, then upon the tonsils. 



Remarks. I have had a© opportunity f©r trying it for this purpose, but I 



