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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 6, 1905. 
To)TTwrf ro) III 
The Camp Doctor. 
At the risk of becoming tiresome I am going to dis- 
cuss for your readers some of the commoner phases of 
camp ailments and the simpler means of combatting 
them. I shall not attempt a learned dissertation upon 
disease, from two reasons : one, that I am not capable of 
it, and another that the average reader would not com- 
prehend. It is, however, evident to all that some few 
simple rules of treatment with the means at hand may be 
employed and much relief derived therefrom. I shall 
only speak of those things that are more likely to occur 
and which, quite often, produce a lot of misery and 
efifectually annihilate all the pleasure of a trip that you 
have been, mayhap, planning for months. 
Diarrhea. — Perhaps of all the simple complaints that 
the camper has toi contend with this is the most preva- 
lent, especially in the summer months, and that's the 
period that folks usually camp. The change of diet, 
water, air, surroundings, all conspire seemingly to render 
man a victim. The disease begins with a feeling of lassi- 
tude and distaste of food. A chilly sensation meanders 
up and down the victim's spinal column, and a regular 
post-graduate headache supervenes. You wake up in the 
morning feeling not a bit like doing anything. You get 
up and very likely you vomit. Then in a few minutes 
you vomit again. By this time you are feeling "nasty." 
About now comes the desire to evacuate the bowels. 
You evacuate, and this continues. The passages are thin 
and watery and scalding, like lye. The patient becomes 
pale and distressed with a severe pain in the bowels. 
Treatment: Clean out the bowels and keep them clean. 
Strange philosophy to give a man an evacuant when his 
bowels are already doing double duty, but that's the 
remedy. Just plan old-fashioned every-day Epsom salts 
in heroic doses. Say a heaping tablespoonful every two 
hours until every bacteria-laden -mass in the whole in- 
testinal tract is swept out as with a broom. Follow with 
doses of chloranodyne in fifteen drops until the pain and 
diarrhea are checked. Nothing more. That will effect 
a cure. In fact, the simple rinsing out of the intestines 
with the salts will be all that is necessary. The other is 
simply to relieve the pain. Now, be a little more careful 
what you eat in the future, and remember that there is 
always another meal coming, so don't try to consume 
it all at this one. 
Rheumatism. — The man that is the victim of rheuma- 
tism had better not get out where he is apt to get wet. 
If you run up against an attack the very best treatment 
is to get dried out as soon as possible. Simply get up 
alongside a hot fire and soak in all the caloric your skin 
will hold. Drink water and sweat until there is not 
enough water left in the system to drown a flea. Get 
your bed up off the damp ground and keep it thoroughly 
dry. You will not be very apt to have anything in your 
camp medicine outfit that will do much good, except a 
cathartic. If you know that you are going to have rheu- 
matism you had better carry along one of two things 
which amount to the same thing. Colchicine with methyl 
salycilate, or salycilate of sodium. Either of these is 
contained in about every recipe for rheumatism that was 
ever written. The former, being in globule form, is more 
easily carried. For acute attacks, take heroic doses. 
Colds. — Everybody is liable to this fashionable com- 
plaint, and most people allow it to "work itself off." 
Sometirries the symptoms are so severe as to demand ■ 
attention. Then comes in a good chance to try your 
compound cathartic pills in about a three-to-dose shot. 
The next day begin to dose the cold with three-grain 
doses of quinine every two hours until a thirty horse- 
power sawmill gets busy in your head. Stop then, and 
get into bed with a big hot lemonade in your skin and 
allow the cold to leak out through the pores of the skin, 
as it surely will if you do not throw off the bedclothes 
and get chilled. 
T oothache. ~"Thon hell of a' diseases." There are 
about twenty-two thousand three hundred and sixty-five 
remedies that have been advocated. All of them useful 
and all useless. Cocaine is a valuable application if the 
tooth is hollow, but useless if not so. I have brought 
great relief to a solid tooth by splitting a large raisin 
and filling it with pepper, preferably cayenne, and apply- 
ing it directly to the offending dental. Laudanum, oil 
of cloves, hot sandbag, all are useful. To start as if you 
were going to the dentist to have the thing extracted is 
a sovereign cure. That last is a joke. I tell you so that 
you may understand it. 
Earache. — Another pleasant complication. Usually 
caused from impacted cerumen. If so, any remedy that 
will remove the wax will give immediate relief. I gen- 
erally pour hot water in the ear. I don't mean by that 
a few drops of luke-warm water, but lay the patient down 
on his side and pour about a gallon of water as hot as 
possible into the ear. Maybe it's a bug got in there. Use 
the same remedy. Pour in the water. Wash out bug. 
Cocaine solution in ear will relieve pain. Hot rock will, 
too. 
Malaria. — There is only one remedy for malaria and 
that is quinine. Everybody knows that. Yes, there is 
one more. Do not get bit with that particular mosquito 
that causes the disease. Of course, you may have some 
little difficulty in selecting the particular brand of mos- 
quito that you desire to have lunch on your person, but 
that's the sure cure. The best cure for malaria is to 
get out of a malarial climate. 
Sunstroke'. — The average woods loafer will hardly 
exert himself enough to get a sunstroke, but if he does 
the guiding principle is to keep up the circulation and 
vitality and keep down the temperature. One may be 
accomplished by strychnia and digitalis, the other by 
applying cold to the head, but not to the extremities. 
Here is a good place for a little old rye, if you brought 
any along. , ^, . • ..1. j • 
^neumofmL-^This- may occur m tnosp ooiq| wwter 
hunting when the weather is inclement. The symptoms-, 
are these : Usually a decided chill ushers in the disease ; 
at any rate there will be a chilly sensation; a cough and 
difficult breathing; pain in some locality in the lung or 
lungs. The temperature rapidly rises and the patient 
becomes very ill indeed. Unfortunately medical science 
has discovered no remedy for pneumonia. The best that 
we can do is to support the vitality until the crisis. This 
crisis will occur usually upon the fourteenth day. The 
medical treatment consists in stimulating the heart with 
strychnia, relieving the cough with codiene or the senega 
compound tablets, and applying cold to the chest. Keep 
the chest well packed in cold towels or even ice packs. 
The average man who goes into^ the woods for a hunting 
season will be able to withstand an attack of pneumonia 
unless his system is saturated with alcohol. If so, his 
chances of recovery are not good. It is a notorious fact 
that alcoholics, senile persons, and children recover from 
this' disease very badly. Alcohol in my hands has proved 
of very little avail except in the latter stage's, where it 
became necessary to stimulate the circulation powerfully 
and at once. I am of the opinion that alcohol does more 
harm than good in these cases. 
Typhoid. — The most serious misfortune that could oc- 
cur to a man in the woods would be an attack of typhoid. 
Fortunately it is rare. This being an intestinal disease 
the treament should be directed against the alimentary 
canal wholly. I use the intestinal antiseptics entirely. 
The fever will subside in direct proportion to the anti- 
sepsis of the canal. Calomel to clean out with, followed 
by salts, then zinc sulphocarbolate. The average case of . 
typhoid will recover in from three weeks to six if left 
entirely alone. A long time to stay in the bills, you say. 
This about concludes the list of diseases that you will 
be apt to contract. If there is anything that I have over- 
looked, I have forgotten it. That is a misfortune of mine 
— forgetting things. I forgot to go home the other 
night, but my wife seemed to remember it, and from 
my experience then I conclude that I had better bring 
this tiresome article to a close and wend my weary way 
homeward. I will, if this fills the bill, offend again in 
some future article in which I will take up the subject 
of camp surgery. Chas. S. Moody. 
Boston and Maine. . 
Boston, Mass., April 2g.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
In some sections of Massachusetts the laiid is being 
rendered almost destitute of forests by the local and 
portable sawmills, a condition greatly deplored by our 
sportsmen, as well as lovers of forests for their beauty 
and their usefulness as conservators of moisture. 
The allusion by Governor Douglas in his Arbor Day 
proclamation to the fact that there are in our State 
"no less than a million acre^'' of comparatively worth- 
less land, which might be rendered of great value if 
covered with forest trees of the proper kind, has 
struck a responsive chord among all classes of our 
citizens and attracted much favorable comment by the 
press, even beyond the confines of the Qld Bay State. 
While the planting of shade trees is a work to be com- 
mended, the larger problem of practical forestry should 
receive the careful attention of all rural communities. 
The Massachusetts forestry department •ha:s just issued 
a leaflet saying, among other things, "Trees should be 
planted systematically and for a definite purpose." It 
also calls attention to the service other than shade a 
tree may render, and recommends the planting of our 
"native trees" as likely to prove more useful than any 
others. 
One of our evening papers commends the plan- of a 
suburban club in planting mountain-ash and mulberry 
trees for the reason that those trees "invite birds,'-' and 
it is very desirable to have with us as many of them 
as possible. During the last session of the Vermont 
Legislature, a forestry act was passed providing that 
all waste or uncultivated lands, which shall be planted 
with forest trees in accordance with rules prescribed 
by the State forester, shall be exempt from taxation 
for a period of ten years, commencing on the first of 
April of the second year after such lands have been ' 
planted. All efforts made to increase the acreage of_ 
wooded land commends itself to lovers of the birds 
and animals that the birds and animals that exist there- 
in in a wild state. 
On account of the ravages of the. browntail and 
gypsy moths, our Metropolitan Park ■ Commissioners 
have caused the cutting of trees from large areas in 
the Middlesex Fells to the great regret of many people 
in the neighboring towns, and, in fact, of all who are 
accustomed to resort thither. There have been many 
appeals from correspondents that not only the trees, 
but the undergrowth be allowed to remain, thus pre- 
senting a natural aspect, as well as good cover .for the 
ruffed grouse and other birds that exist there in great 
numbers. These writers prefer the natural to the arti- 
ficial, however ornate. 
At a recent conference for town and village- better- 
ment in the rooms of the Twentieth Century Club, 
Boston, Prof. N. S. Shaler, of Cambridge, -spoke of 
the great natural beauty of the State of Massachusetts — • 
the "matchless" outlines of Cape God, he said, could 
not be duplicated anywhere." 
The "drumlings," or arched hills, left throughout 
New England by the glacial . period, have a quality 
rarely met with elsewhere. He declared Gay Head to 
be the "most instructive bit of shore in the world." 
He appealed to the audience to form a society for 
preserving the natural beauties of the Commonwealth. 
Prof. Henry T. Bailey made a plea to have the State 
purchase the salt marshes, as a part of the Stat'e 
reservation. Some of them should be spt 9.part as 
pr^s^rves for pur beach and shore bir^s, ' ' 
Mr. Charles Clark Munn, of Springfield, author of 
"Uncle Terry," "The Hermit," etc., informs your cor- 
respondent that he has nearly completed another story, 
the chief characters and events of which are deriveq 
from his many visits in Maine. "Into the story," he 
says, "he has woven a good deal pertaining to the 
present .system of fish and game protection in Maine, 
as carried out during the last few years." Some of 
the "dramatis personse," if he carries out his present 
purpose, will be easily recognizable, and I am inclined 
to the opinion that there will be enough of spice irj 
the book to make it decidedly racy. 
Although the weather has been rather cold of lafe, 
several of our anglers have started off in various direc- 
tions — Col. Parker for northern Vermont, where he 
finds royal sport with trout just big enough for the 
pan. "Plenty of them," he says. 
President Hinman and Mr. H. H. Kelt started Fri- 
day evening for the west branch of the Penobscot. They 
will be joined later by several others. 
C; A. York, of the Boston Tavern, has been with 
Dr. Bishop and Mr. E. S. Wheeler at Clear Water Lake 
for a week. They report good luck — the landlocked sal- 
mon running large, and, it is said, one of the party 
got 68 pounds of fish in 61 minutes. (Your readers 
are aware that this is about the season for fish stories 
from Maine.) Anglers accustomed to fish at Sebago 
have had great expectations for this season and if re- 
ports are true, they have not been disappointed. Mr. 
Robert Low, of Portland, with five others took 129 
pounds of salmon averaging 7^ pounds each; in four 
days, the largest tipping the scale at 10% pounds. A 
fisherman of another party on the west shore is re- 
ported to ahve taken one weighing 19^ pounds. 
In Jordan's River, Raymond, one was captured 
weighing ioj4 pounds. By the aid of the new hatchery 
.at Raymond and the feeding station to be erected at 
Sebago, it is predicted this lake is destined to yield 
more and larger fish than ever before in its remarkable 
history. This expectation has almost been realized 
during _the past week. At the mouth of the Songo, E 
J. Noyes took one of 10 pounds and a 14-pounder, and 
Mr. Ross Snow, of New York, who is at Fern Cot- 
tage for the summer, has to his credit a salmon weigh- 
ing 19^ pounds. Mr. E. Bartlett, of Lynn, Mass., 
has taken several fine ones. Mr. J. D. Brigham, of 
. Westbrook, with Robt., Martin, of Rangeley, as guide, 
captured one weighing 16 pounds. All this to the 
stay-at-home may sound like the "Dead March from 
Saul." But never mind, their day is coming, perhaps 
at the Rangeleys or Moosehead, "when the ice goes out." 
At all events the Boston & Maine Railroad officials 
say there is an unprecedented demand for parlor and 
sleeping car accommodations on trains to the fishing 
resorts' of Maine, especially in the sleeper which will 
be attached to the 7:40 train out of Boston beginning 
May 7, for Greenville. This train leaves Bangor next 
morning at 7. 
Ice is out of Pushaw, Hermon and small ponds near 
Bangor; At last reports no fish had yet been taken 
at Lake Auburn. By the way, I will give your readers 
a tip, which former Commissioner Stanley gave, me 
last summer,: viz., , that it would pay me well to "try 
the fishing at Lake Auburn." 
On Wednesday next the committee on fish and game 
are to, give a hearing on a bill to prohibit sale of 
lobster meat (out of shell), also on one to require 
fishermen to get a permit, without charge, from the 
commissioners. These measures were ' recommended 
by the convention of commissioners two years ago. 
Central. 
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Bangor, Me., April 29. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
The opening of the fishing season in this State, so long 
looked forward to by the thousands of devotees of the 
rod" and line in and outside of Maine, is close upon us, ; 
and by the time this reaches the readers of Forest and 
Stream it may be that the great lakes, those most popular : 
with the anglers and other pleasure seekers, will be widej 
open and waiting for the army of visitors. 
. Already there has been a material addition to the listi 
of lakes reported as open, in previous letters, and now. 
the lover of salmon fishing may pack his grips, bundle! 
his rods together and take a train for the famous home ' 
of the landlocked salmon. Grand Lake of the St. Croix, 
system. That lake opened this week, and it is safe tOi 
predict that Moosehead and the Rangeleys will be open-; 
within the next seven days, if not in a shorter time. 
The sport at Sebago has been fast and furious since j 
the breaking up of tiie ice, and the lakes near Bangor, 
such as Green, Phillips and Branch, have been open for, 
a week. The results achieved by the early enthusiasts,, 
who wet lines in those lakes last Sunday, were not very 
encouraging, small strings resulting. Thursday, which 
was Fast Day and a legal holiday in Maine, saw great! 
croAvds at all these three places, but results were not ex- 
tensive at any but Brand Pond, where three boats took) 
ten fish, several being salmon, one a brown trout of 6i^i 
poundSj and some, spotted trout. But one salmon was' 
landed at •Phillips during the day, and several togue, withi 
scarcely better results at Green. As yet the lakes havq 
been rather too cold for the best of sport. 
The Bangor salrnon pool has improved on its record^ 
of a week ago, having furnished five more salmon in the 
last seven days. Comparatively few fish have been ob- 
served at the pool, and the catch in the weirs along the 
river has been as unsatisfactory as at the pool, but the 
smelts have begun to run up the river in great quantities, 
and the salmon are expected to follow right along aftei 
them. 
One of the astonishing stories tdld, jt is said, by ^ reli- 
able sportsman, who }ia4 jt qh the mthorky of ey< 
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