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In January, at a place called Whitby in Cheshire) 

 some diseased beasts were turned out in a field where 

 there was some water at the bottom of an old lime* 

 pit. They all recovered, Then there was a rare 

 to do. Some wise men posted off to analyse the 

 water. Some wrote to newspapers to say they had 

 been in the habit of using 1 lime-water all their lives for 

 all sorts of diseases, and never lost a single patient. 

 Some wrote to say they were perfectly astonished 

 that such a well-known remedy had not been tried 

 before ; and so they went on for about a fortnight, 

 till at last the discovery was made that lime-water 

 was not a bit more use than arsenicum, Turkish baths, 

 or ferruginous preparations* Of course, the truth is ) 

 the animals recovered because they were turned out 

 in the field and left to nature. In the most malig^ 

 nant cases there is no hope, nature herself can do 

 nothing, but such cases are exceptional. 



Not long- ago I knew of a supposed hopeless case 

 flow fever. Dr. Baker Brown was sent for. He 

 came, opened all the windows, pulled the bed to them) 

 and let into the room all the light, air, and sun he 

 could, and the patient recovered. The neighbouring- 

 surgeon, as I was told, said this was all very well 

 for a man with a great reputation, but that if he had 

 done it he must have lost his practice for ever, such 

 being the popular abhorrence of fresh air. 



A tenant of mine had forty animals attacked. 

 This was after the Act for the prevention of recovery 

 had come into force, so they were of course shot, 



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