The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
547 
Health  Notes 
Curing  Bright’s  Disease 
I  noticed  on  page  287,  in  “Health 
Notes,”  D.  C.  S.  complains  of  Bright’s 
disease.  This  ailment  in  most  cases  is 
pronounced  incurable  by  physicians. 
I>.  C.  S.  should  give  the  remedy  below  a 
fair  trial  before  giving  up,  as  this  remedy 
lias  cured  cases  that  have  been  given 
up  by  physicians  as  incurable.  There  is 
no  question  that  some  cases  are  incurable, 
but  the  price  of  these  herbs  is  so  low  it 
should  'be  given  a  trial  before  giving  up 
all  hope :  Four  teaspoons  tumbleweed, 
four  teaspoons  sweet,  bugle,  four  tea¬ 
spoons  prairie  pine,  four  teaspoons  couch 
grass,  one  teaspoon  way  wort.  Directions : 
Steep  a  heaping  teaspoonful  of  this  herb 
mixture  in  a  cup  of  boiling  water  and 
cover.  Let  remain  until  cold.  Drink 
from  two  to  four  cupfuls  each  day  in 
place  of  water.  I  should  advise  D.  C.  S. 
to  purchase  25c  worth  of  each.  w.  K. 
Bright’s  disease  is  not  always  incur¬ 
able.  There  are  acute  forms  that  tend 
to  recovery,  and  chronic  forms  that  last 
for  years,  with  the  victim  able  to  main- 
from  different  causes,  and  that  the  cause 
in  each  individual  case  must  be  ascer¬ 
tained  before  any  intelligent  efforts  can 
be  directed  toward  a  cure.  Some  cases 
yield  readily  to  proper  treatment,  some 
last  for  years  and  then  subside,  and  some 
seem  to  defy  the  most  skillful  treatment. 
Eye  strain  is  a  common  cause  of  sicic 
headaches,  and  one  subject  to  them  should 
have  the  eyes  examined  by  a  competent 
oculist — not  an  optician  or  traveling  spec¬ 
tacle  peddler.  Digestive  disturbances 
should  be  corrected  and  constipation,  if 
present,  relieved  by  suitable  measures. 
Search  should  be  made  for  the  existence 
of  unrecognized  kidney  trouble,  and  fre¬ 
quently  a  Wasserman  to  of  the  blood 
should  be  made  to  determine  the  possible 
presence  of  some  inherited  disorder  that 
may  be  cured  by  proper  treatment.  Dur¬ 
ing  an  attack  the  patient  should  rest  in  a 
quiet,  well-ventilated  and  darkened  room  ; 
a  hot  mustard  foot  bath  or  a  mustard 
poultice  to  the  back  of  the  neck  may  re¬ 
lieve,  sometimes  a  cup  of  hot  coffee  at  the 
very  beginning  will  check  an  attack. 
There  are  various  drugs  that  give  relief 
The  cover  picture  on  one  of  your  latest  papers,  “Well,  now,  who  favors  a  license  on 
the  catV”  reminded  me  of  the  time  last  Summer  when  I  stepped  out  of  the  machine 
shop  door  just  in  time  to  see  a  cat  pounce  on  a  baby  robin  that  wasn’t  quite  old  enough 
to  navigate  expertly.  I  was  close  enough  to  save  the  bird’s  life  and  to  write  up  the 
outlaw  cat  a  suitable  passport  and  free  ticket  to  the  place  where  all  bad  cats  should 
go,  but  the  poor  little  bird?  One  wing  was  sadly  broken  and  the  other  bad’y  hurt. 
1  took  care  of  it  as  best  I  could,  and  it  got  well,  but  never  could  fly.  It  lived  all 
Bummer  in  our  orchard,  and  in  the  Fall  fell  a  victim  to  another  cat !  Now,  I  have 
nothing  against  a  good  cat,  but  I  do  know  there  are  a  great  number  of  outlaw  cats 
that  do  nothing  else  all  Summer  but  hunt  young  birds.  Let  us  help  our  little  feathered 
friends  this  Summer  by  doing  away  with  one  of  their  worst  enemies — the  outlaw  cat. 
The  picture  I  am  sending  is  the  little  robin  with  the  broken  wing.  s.  P. 
Delhi,  N.  Y. 
tain  a  fair  degree  of  health.  There  are 
no  drugs,  herbs  or  other  that  can  cure 
the  disease,  at  least,  so  far  as  is  known. 
The  diet  and  mode  of  life  are  more  im¬ 
portant  than  drugs,  though  the  latter  are 
sometimes  needed  to  give  the  kidneys  tem¬ 
porary  aid.  When  this  is  the  case,  they 
should  be  prescribed  by  a  physician  who 
sees  the  patient  and  knows  what  his  con¬ 
dition  at  the  time  is.  To  prescribe  a 
general  remedy  for  Bright’s  disease  would 
be  likely  to  do  harm,  both  by  causing  a 
sufferer  to  neglect  other  and  perhaps  more 
needed  measures,  and  by  inspiring  a  con¬ 
fidence  in  what  he  was  taking  that  might 
easily  prove  unjustified.  No  intelligent 
and  conscientious  physician  would  pre¬ 
scribe  for  an  unseen  case  that  he  had  no 
further  knowledge  of  than  that  it  was 
termed  Bright’s  disease,  and  it  is  certainly 
equally  unsafe  for  a  layman  to  do  it. 
Even  though  the  remedies  recommended 
are  simple  and  harmless  in  themselves, 
they  may  do  great  harm  by  replacing  in 
the  patient’s  confidence  other  needed  rem¬ 
edial  measures.  No  one  with  Bright’s 
disease  need  give  up  all  hope.  As  said, 
the  acute  form  often  tend  to  spontaneous 
recovery,  while  the  chronic  forms  may 
exist  for  years  without  disabling  the  suf¬ 
ferer  if  he  adopts  a  rational  method  of 
living  and  working  under  the  supervision 
of  a  competent  physician.  if.  B.  D. 
Curing  Sick  Headache 
Do  you  know  of  a  remedy  that  will 
help  or  cure  sick  headache,  from  which  I 
suffer  great  pain,  lasting  from  24  to  48 
hours?  I  have  tried  a  great  many  reme¬ 
dies,  but  find  no  permanent  relief. 
Cameron,  N.  Y.  E.  C.  J. 
There  is  no  cure  for  sick  headache. 
This  does  not  mean  that  sick  headaches 
may  not  be  cured,  but  that  they  arise 
with  greater  or  less  certainty,  but  these 
should  be  prescribed  by  a  competent  phy¬ 
sician,  who  knows  the  patient,  not  taken 
“on  her  own.”  m.  b.  d. 
Treatment  for  Liquor  Habit 
What  do  you  think  of  the  inclosed  ad¬ 
vertisement,  offering  to  cure  the  liquor 
habit?  Is  it  reliable,  and  will  it  do  what 
is  said  ?  mbs.  w.  b. 
No ;  I  think  that  the  advertisement  is 
not  reliable,  and.  further,  that  it  is  simply 
one  of  the  countless  thousands  of  adver¬ 
tisements  designed  to  enrich  those  pub¬ 
lishing  them  at  the  expense  of  the  ignor¬ 
ant  and  credulous.  There  are  no  drugs 
that  can  be  administtred  secretly  that 
will  cure  the  drink  habit.  Borne  of  the 
“remedies”  advertised  have  been  analyzed 
and  found  to  contain  strychnine  and  tar¬ 
tar  emetic,  both  in  dosage  that  is  dan¬ 
gerous  to  life  when  given  ignorantly. 
The  idea,  of  course,  so  far  as  there  is  any 
other  idea  than  to  get  the  money  by  any 
possible  means,  is  to  sicken  the  drinker 
and  make  liquor  distasteful  to  him.  That 
this,,  if  successful,  will  not  remove  the 
craving  for  more  than  a  very  short  time 
must_  be  evident  to  anyone  who  has  seen 
a  drinker  under  the  sickening  influence 
of  his  own  chosen  beverages.  Advertised 
drink  cures  are  fraudulent ;  let  them 
alone.  They  are  not  even  as  useful  as 
the  “walnuto  extracto”  recently  described 
in  “Hope  Farm  Notes.”  That  nasty  bev¬ 
erage  was  a  dream  beside  some  of  these 
“whiskey  cures.” 
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