The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 12, 1884, Page 6

LEMONS VS. MALARIA. The Fruit Claimed to Be a Panacea | for the Disease. The eighth session of the Inter- national Medica! Congress has just been held in Copenhagen. Through the enterprise of the Medica! Record, s synopsis of the proce: dings and a few of the most important papers in full have been rec by telegraph. The paper of greates scientific and popular interest to the American peo- le is that read by Professor Conrad Tomasi Crudeli, of the University of Rome, Italy, and entitled ‘The Natural Production of Malaria, and the Means of Making Malarions Countries Health- ier.” Professor Crudeli has devoted years to the scientific study of malaris, and is without doubt the highest authority an the subject. His conclusions are, therefore, entitled to great weight. He repudiates utterly the paludal theory of malaria, that is, that malaria is exclusively produced by the putrid emanations of swamps and marshes. On the contrary, he finds that it is pro- duced in soils of the most varied com- position, without the pre! of any putrefaction whateve due to the presence of 2 specific liv table germ. This germ ma) sofls without poisoning the atmos- phere, remaining inert for years, even for centw retaining its vitality, however, ng active only when prese currence of which is pensable for the production of malaria, sre three in number, viz.: A temperature which does not fall below 67.5 degrees Fahrenheit; a y moderate degree of permanent humidity of the soil, and the direct action of the oxygen of the air upon the strata of earth containing the malarial ferment. Such being the factors in the case, whatean be done to remove one or more of them and thus render malari- ous regions more salubrious? In the first place nature makes localities healthy during certain seasons by tak- ing away the factor of heat, there being less malarial infection in Winter than in Summer. But this means is obviously beyond the reach of man, nor is it at all certain that it would be effective in this country, if within his reach, for every physician has noted the fact that, while malarial diseases prevail to a less degree in frosty weath- er, yet old cases have relapses and new cases occur, even in midwinter. The second means of prevention con- sists in depriving the ground of its moisture, by some system of drainage, by cultivation of plants and trees Whick consume a large amount of water in their growth, or by the de- struction of dense forests which pre- Tent the rays of the sun reaching and drying the soil. Much hope was placed in the cucslyptus tree as s means of extracting moisture from the ground, but the experience with it, in Italy, at least, is not encouraging. The third method of purification is to prevent the direct action of the oxy- gen of the air upon the infected strata of soil. This has been successfully accomplished by the system of over- layiag, which consists in covering the infected ground with thick layers of infected earth, at the same time em- ploying thorough systems of surface and under-ground drainage. Regions about Rome, heretofore malarious, have been benefited by macadamizing and turfing the ground. In districts where malaria prevails ina pernicious form it is difficult to carry out large works of improvement, which take time for their accomplish- ment, such as the forced cultivation of the soil, because of the sickness of the laborers. Professor Crudeli has thereé- fore been devoting the last few years to a search for means to increase the power of resistanee of the human arcanism to the attacks of malaria. Acknowledging the great value of quinine and arsenic, as preventive and curative, he has still sought to discov- ex acheaper, harmless and yet effec- tive remedy, and this he believes he has found in the ordinary lemon. He does not claim the discovery as origin- al with himself, or indeed with any physician, but candidly acknowledges the remedy to be of popular origin, and, with true scientific spirit, seeks knowledge not only in the exact re- searches of the laboratory, but also in the every-day experience of common people. He advises thats decoction of lemon be made as follows: Cut up ane lemon, peel and all, into thin slices, put into three glassfuls of water and boil it down to one glassful. Strain the liquid through linen, squeez- ing thoroughly the remains of boiled lemon, and set it aside tocooL Drink the whole amount when fasting. As the decoction possesses cathartic prop- erties the dose should not be repeated too frequently, nor more than once a day, or every other day, according to individual susceptibility. Whether the decoction of lemon will prove to be of permanent value can only be determined by extended ex- periment. It is claimed for it that itis especially efficacious in the chronic forms of malarial poisoning, which are no longer relieved by quinine. As the remedy is cheap and innocuous it will probably receive almost universal trial, especially as it is recommended by such emineat authority. It isto be borne in mind, however, that malarial mani- festations are not exactly the same in differeat couatries and ta different in- dividuals, and that a medicine curative in Italy may be less sohere. It is to be hoped that the subject will receive such careful study that the exact type of malarial pulmaine to which it is adapted may become known and accn- rately defined.— Hartford Courant. oo a Munich has the larzest beer garde’ and the best beer in Europe. T ty runs to beer, art and music. beer selis for 3 « is COMMOCR Lo see drain off tu ences nt | WHO STRUCK BILLY PAT- TERSON? A Singular Claim ona False Foun- dation Exploded by Investigation. was received at this office yesterday. as told holds out n tothe mystery of **Who Patterson?”’ but unfortun- ately for those who are yery curious to to have tie query answered, the narra- tive is not founded on the bed-rock of truth. It is to the effectthat Mr. Will- |jam Patterson, the father of Mme. Bonaparte, who was a prominent and | respected Baltimore merchant, was the “Billy Patterson’ who received the mythical biow, and that he offered @ reward of $1,000 in his will for the dis- coverey of the perpetrator of the as- sault. The story goes on to describe the blow as having been given in Franklin County, Georgia, in 1837, the narrator being ignorant that that was two years after the Baltimore mer- chant’s death. Itis related that he owned land there which he had bought up on foreclosures of mortgages; that in the course of ariot, in which he wanted to act as peacemaker, he was | felled by a blow which so injured him | that Mr. Patterson left the reward to CONTINUE THE SEARCH | for him even after his death. A_ Mrs. Tennie A. Corey, of Athol, Warren County, N. Y., comes forward as the daughter of the man who struck Billy Patterson, and wants a finger in this mythical $1,000, The story, as it comes from a corre- spondent in Atlanta, Ga., says: ‘Mr. Patterson’s will containing the clause perpetuating the reward offered for the discovery of the man who had struck him, is on record in the office of the clerk of the court in the counties of Franklin and Elbert. Mrs. Corey writes to the ordinary of Franklin County as follows: “My father struck Billy Patterson. It was a great many years ugo, or at least I suppose it was, asI was a very small child when he told me about it. He is dead now. As near as 1 can find out he was wild and mischievous when young, snd ran away from his home in ermont, where he was born and rais- ed by tender parents. He was of a roving disposition, and among other places which he visited was Franklin County, Georgia. Ashe was fond of sport he attended most of the public affairs. He attended the one in Geor- fon say the one in Georgia, because e left Georgia as soon as possible, and never returned to see how Billy Patter- son came out. He said when the row begun and Mr. Peacemaker, as he call- ed Billy, stuck his name in to break up the sport, he just leveled him, and “dug out’’ as soon as possible, and LEFT GEORGIA FOREVER. He went to Cieveland, Onio, and as he grew ulder and wiser he began to grow stricter, and became as good an en- gineer as was ever on the road, and run fifteen years on one road, besides others. My mother went from this place to Ohio and married my father, and I was born there. We came back here to live. My father’s name was George W. Tilleston. He never knew there was a will mado, and I.am not sure that he would have cared to have told, as he had money enough; but as lam an invalid I might ss well have the money if it is still offered,’ ‘The ordinary of Franklin County has had s transcript of the willtaken, and has forwarded it to Mrs. Corey, at Athol, N.Y. The next step will provably be a demand upon the representatives of the late Mr. Patterson for the money, and, in the event of arefussl to pay it, the matter will become a subject of litigation in one of the United States district courts of New York.” Mr. Patterson’s will m be of ree- ord in the counties of Fr: in and El- bert, Ga., if he had land or other pos- sessions there, but the original will is of record in the Regi ot Wills’ of- fice in Baltimore, wher ves hunted up by a Sun reporter, n¢ found to contain no such clause as described in the Georgia story. The will is a very voluminous document. Itis a pa- per which has often been quoted from, and is in some sense historical. It was made in 1827, with various codicils up to the time of his desth. The will was proved in February, 1835, a few days after his desth.—From the Baitimore Sun. —___——» Plantation Philosophy. De whitest shirt am so de blackest way. De pusson wid er foul mouf is er pus- son wid er foul min’. De groun’ itse’f is rank where de smartweed grows. Er soft voice ain’t alluz de sign o’ er tender soul. De wildcat hab a mighty pitiful cry, but, good Lawd, he’s rank pizen. I never seed a pusson soignorant dat he couldn’t pick out flaws an’ find fault. Erc’on’tiel’ nigger ken say dat de President am er fool. ‘ Ef de aberage man had as much ’sire to tell de truth ez he hss ter tell er lie, truth would become so plentiful and lies so scarce dat de newness ob a lie would outshine de virtue o’ de truth. Honesty may run fur er long time in er family, but it sometimes runs out De wust thief 1 eber seed wuz de sono’ er hones’ fadder sn’ mudder. It ain’t ight ter raise er chile ter beliebe dat he’s boun’ ter be hones’ jes’ ’cause his fadder was. Honesty wid er man is like pacing wid er hoss. It may runin de fam’ly but de right sort o” trainin’ helps it mightily.—Arkansaw Traveler. $a Minnie Hauk is forty-six boxes when sie arrived in Engiand from this country, and it took the custom-house officers a day and a hbaif to examine them. 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