1899 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



901 



ter asking $200 to treat me another year. He" reduced 

 the price, seeing that I was an old patient. I would 

 gladly give his name and place of business, but may 

 be I have no right to do so, as he has license to prac- 

 tice in Ohio, and runs a large institute on the money 

 he robs the sick of. If any thing is to be cried down, 

 I say let it be those quacks who charge a large price 

 in advance My husband has paid out many hundred 

 dollars on false promises to get me cured, and I am 

 no better off, and, as a last resort, we are trying a 

 warm climate, and, with God's help, it may be suc- 

 cessful. If you desire to print any portion of this, 

 and any invalid wishes to know about this particular 

 institute, I will tell him willingly; but I do not care 

 to have my name published. Mrs. O. A. D. 



San Diego, Calif , April II. 



DOCTORING WITHOUT MEDICINE; CAUSE AND 



CURE OF RHEUMATISM — AT LEAST ONE 



KIND OF THAT DISEASE. 



Friend Root, as you are always doing something to 

 benefit your fellow-men 1 have a little experience to 

 relate to you which you in turn can give to your read- 

 ers free, as I have no patent on it. I have been afflict- 

 ed with acute and s-ciatic rheumatism for over 25 years; 

 but for the past year I have been entirely free from it. 

 The j ear previous to the past one I was laid up en- 

 tirely. I had tried every thing — patent medicines, 

 electricity, and prescriptions from several doctors, 

 but they were all failures. For several reasons I came 

 to the conclusion it was all caused by the sweets I was 

 taking into my system In September, 1898, I discard- 

 ed sweets entirely, and in three months my rheuma- 

 tism was completely gone. About a month ago I was 

 extracting honey, and I ate quite freely of it, for one 

 or two days, when my old symptoms of rheumatism 

 leturned, so I know the rheumatism is caused by the 

 uric acid which comes from eating sweets. All doctors 

 agree that sweets turn to uric acid, and uric acid causes 

 rheumatism. Some 30 years ago I always had this 

 complaint while making maple sugar ; but as soon as 

 "sugaring " was over my iheumatic trouble was gone. 



Berlin, Wis., Oct. 80. E. C. Eaglefield. 



My good friend, you have struck on one of 

 the great points in the Salisbury treatment. 

 Where one's digestive apparatus gets started 

 into acid fermentation, sugar, more than any 

 other one article of diet, feeds the malady. It 

 is just like putting something sweet into vine- 

 gar. The beer-plant, as you may know, will 

 grow and thrive so long as it has the least bit 

 of sweet of any kind added to the water in 

 which it is growing. Now, the Salisbury 

 treatment cuts off not only the sugar but the 

 starch also; and starch is easily converted into 

 sugar by chemical means or by the digestive 

 apparatus ; but in my own case, and 1 think 

 that of most people, sugar is more apt to feed 

 a sour stomach than starch or starchy foods. 

 Among all vegetable foods, dry bread or zwie- 

 back is perhaps nearest to meat ; but a beef- 

 steak diet contains absolutely no sugar or 

 starch, and it is, accordingly, the only food — 

 that is, the lean-meat diet is almost the only 

 diet known — that contains neither starch nor 

 sugar, and is, therefore, calculated to starve 

 out this fermentation in the bowels. I am sor- 

 ry to say, however, that not all kinds of rheu- 

 matism yield to this treatment ; but a great 

 many forms of rheumatism, as well as ever so 

 many other distressing results of indigestion, 

 may be remedied by cutting off all sweets. I 

 have known cases where just omitting the 

 sugar in coffee has put a stop to daily head- 

 aches. I am glad to know the world is finally 

 catching on to this most important factor in 

 diet. Now, please remember I do not con- 

 demn the use of a reasonable amount of sugar 

 for everybody . Where sugar is perfectW as- 

 similated and digested, as it is, perhaps, with 



most healthy people, a proper amount with 

 the meals gives strength ; but a good many 

 times, tating kss sugar will stop headaches 

 and other like results of indigestion. 



While speaking of rheumatism, permit me 

 to say here that when I was in Fostoria recent- 

 ly, my nephew, Geo. M. Gray, called my at- 

 tention to an important case. A man who had 

 for years hobbled about on crutches, badly 

 crippled up with rheumatism, had a son who 

 is now conducting a bicycle-repair shop in 

 Fostoria. Well, the old gentleman got an 

 idea that, if he could get started on a wheel, 

 he could get about and greatly relieve himself 

 from the fatigue occasioned by standing on 

 his crippled legs. Of course, the boy took a 

 great deal of pains to teach his father how to 

 run a wheel, and they two together succeeded 

 admirably. Now, can you guess the sequel? 

 The wheel-riding gave the old gentleman out- 

 door exercise, a good appetite, and his rheu- 

 matism kept getting better and better, until 

 at the present time he goes about walking 

 erect, without any crutches or even a cane. 

 May God be praised for these lessons that are 

 all round about us, teaching us how to " doc- 

 tor " ourselves "without medicine." 



GOOD FOR THE "ROOTS." 



I have not yet been able to find out just 

 what relation, if any, Sec. Root is to the Roots 

 here in Medina ; but the Root Genealogy, 

 which is a pretty good sized book, did, at the 

 time it was printed, connect pretty nearly all 

 the Roots in the United States, if not all. But 

 what pleases me just now is the following, 

 which we also clip from the Advance ; 



The new regiments sent to Manila had no chap- 

 lains; but Secretary Root has ordered all the available 

 chaplains in the army to the Philippines, ten in all. 



The above is certainly encouraging, for it 

 is only a little while since we were told that 

 the beer-canteen was to have a free swing in 

 our new possessions, in the army, but that all 

 the chaplains were to be dispensed with. I 

 was wondering whether the recent objection 

 to chaplains had not arisen because they 

 would naturally make such a vigorous protest 

 against the introduction of beer. Well, Sec. 

 Root has reinstalled the chaplains ; and may 

 we not hope that he will soon use his influence 

 to have the law enforced regarding the can- 

 teen business ? 



SHALL WE HOLD A JOURNAL OR PERIODICAL 

 RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CHARACTER OF 



ITS ADVERTISEMENTS ? 

 Thank God, there are several periodicals be- 

 sides Gleanings that think a home paper 

 ought to exclude advertisements from the 

 whisky men. We clip the following from the 

 Chicago Advance : 



The descriptive sub-title of Harper's Weekly is, "A 

 Journal of Civilization," and it is a low grade of civil- 

 ization, if we are to judge by the advertisements of 

 liquor-dealers which appear in that journal. One ad- 

 vertisement in Harper's Weekly furnished by the brew- 

 ers of "the beer which made Milwaukee famous," de- 

 clares that since Manila was occupied by the Ameri- 

 cans they have shipped to that city two hundred and 

 nineteen carloads of beer, making in all a train a mile 



