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Remarkable Remedies

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
December
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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Sir Walter Scott's piper, John Bruce, speut a wliole Sunday selecting 12 stones from 12 south-runniug strnams, with the parpóse that his sick master miglit sleep upon them and become whole. Scott was not the man to hurt the honest fellow's feelings by riduculing the notion of such a remedy proving of avail ; so he caused Bruce to be told that the receipt was infallible; but that it was absolutely necessary to success that the stones should be wrapped in thepetticoatof a widow who had never wished to inarry again ; upon learning which the Ilighlander renounced all hope of completing the charm. Lady Duff Gordon once gave an olj Egyptian woroan a powder wrapped in a fragment of the Saturday íeview. ohe carne agam to assure íer benefactress the charm was a wonderfully powerful one; for altbough she had not been able to wash off all he fine writing from the paper, even that little had done her a great deal of good. She would have made an excellent subject for a Llama doctor, who, if he does not happen to have my medicine handy, writes the name of the remedy he woulü administer on a scrap of paper, moistens it with his mouth, rolls it up in the form of a pilla which the patiënt tosses down his throat. In default of paper, the name of the drug is chalked on a board, and washed off again with water, which serves as a healing draught. These easy-going practitioners might probably cite plenty of instances of the efflcacy of their method. Dr. John Brown, of Edinburgh, once gave a laborera prescription, saying: "Take that, and come back in a fortnight, when you will be well." Obedient to the injunction, the patiënt presented himself at the fortnight's end, with a clean tongue and a happy face. Proud oï thefulnllnient of his promise, Dr. Brown said: "Let mesee whatl gr.ve you." "Oh," answered the man, "I took it, Doctor." "Yes, I know you did ; but where is the prescription ?" "I swallowed it," was the reply. The patiënt had made a pill of the paper, and faith in his physician's skill had done the rest. Faith is a rare wonderworker. Strong in the belief that every Frank is a doctor, an old Arab, who had been partially blind from birth, pestered an English traveler into giving him a seidlitz powder and some pomatum. Next day the chief declared that he could see better than

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