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38th Year. 



CHICAGO, ILL., JUNE 16, 1898. 



No. 24. 



Cold Water vs. Hot for Bee-Stings. 



BY DR. E. GALLUP. 



On page 345 (of Gleanings), Mr. Chalon Fowls, also the 

 editor, goes into spasms about Gallup's cold-water treatment 

 for bee-stings. Now I propose to show that their conclusions 

 about cold water driving any disease in, and causing conges- 

 lion, is entirely wrong. The facts are the reverse. It draws 

 poison out instead of driving it in. 



I once treated 76 cases of measles, in both old and young. 

 In six weeks. Not one of the cases were sick in bed over 

 three days, and there was no relapse and no taking cold. All 

 were put in the cold pack to bring out the measles. So rapid 

 and quick were the recoveries that the doctors said they could 

 not be measles. The medical doctors had nine cases at the 

 same time, and three of their cases died, and the other six 

 made a slow recovery. Of course their cases were genuine 

 measles ! 



Dr. Brandt, of Stettin, Germany, uses cold water for 

 typhoid fevers, and only has lost about two per cent.; and 

 they have adopted the Brandt treatment in the hospitals in 

 Germany and France. Before adopting the Brandt treatment 

 the death rate was 42 per cent., and since, it only averages 7 

 per cent., and Dr. Brandt says that the reason why they lose 

 the 7 per cent., is because they go at it half-hearted, and not 

 as heroic as they should. I have never lost but three cases in 

 all my 42 years' practical experience, and those three had 

 perforation of the bowels before I had anything to do with 

 them. 



Dr. Page, of Boston, has treated successfully patients in 

 New York, St. Paul, and other places, by telegraph, with the 

 Brandt method. 



I quote from a small pamphlet by Dr. W. E. Forest. He 

 says : A Dr. Fenwick, reviewing the results of the treatment 

 of 1,000 cases of pneumonia at the London hospital — the 

 conclusion he drew was that the best results were obtained by 

 the use of Ice sponging and packs. Instead of mentioning 28 

 drugs, as Dr. A. K. Hill, of New York, did, he mentioned only 

 four, and spoke ill of each of them. Dr. Marion Sims, of Chi- 

 cago, went to Russia at the time of the Asiatic cholera, and 

 was admitted to the hospitals there, and saved every case by 

 the cold-water treatment that he tried it on. A doctor In 

 Nashville, Tenn., saved every case of yellow fever that he 

 treated with cold water. I saw his statement in "Brathwait's 

 Retrospect," one of the foremost medical publications In the 

 world. 



Now we will take any case of cholera morbus, when the 

 patient is vomiting, purging, and crampt ; even after the med- 

 ical doctors have given them up, put the patient into a cold, 

 wet-sheet pack, not hot or even warm. The moment the 

 patient is envelopt in the sheet all disposition to vomit or 

 purge or cramp is stopt instantly. Let the patient lie in the 

 pack 35 or 40 minutes. I have cured any quantity of pa- 



tients in one hour, and they are entirely cured. I have cured 

 cases of inflammatory rheumatism (where they had suffered 

 for six weeks under medical treatment) In two hours. 



We all know that under the drug and hot-water treatment 

 the great danger is that the disease goes to the heart, and It 

 never does under the cold-water treatment, either in rheuma- 

 tism, pneumonia, erysipelas or any other disease. It is always 

 drawn out instead of driven in. 



Years ago I was given up to die by two physicians, with 

 inflammatory rheumatism. They had drugged me to their 

 heart's content, and applied hot liniments and hot applica- 

 tions until I expected to die, and by an accident I was saved 

 by cold water. 



I saw a neighbor carried onto the ferry boat by two men. 

 He was entirely helpless with iuBimmatory rheumatism. A 

 fractious team on the boat backt up and threw the mau into 



Chili:. F. Mulli. — See page 37G. 



the river, and there was ice in the water. He was entirely 

 cured in an hour. 



I saw a man go Into the river to wash sheep ; his feet were 

 all swollen with rheumatism. The next day he was well. I 

 might tell you case after case of that kind. 



Now allow me to tell you how to treat a sprain. Rub it, 

 then whether knee, wrist, ankle or foot, wet a sheet in cold 

 water, wrap up the sprain and put a blanket outside the 

 sheet. Sleep in it all night, and see how well It will be in the 

 morning. I have seen the hot applications used and the pa- 



