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MEDICAL DELUSIONS
MANY STILL LINGER FROM THE DARK
AGES OF CREDULITY.
Superstitions Regarding Remedies
For Disease on the Lower East Side
In New York-Prescriptions of the
Old Time Apothecaries.
An east sider in lower New York suf-
The laugh of science to the contrary
notwithstanding, medical delusions in
number still survive from
practices among the poor and ignorant
can testify to this, and it is in particu
lar the staff and students of an insti
tution like the Postgraduate Medical
School and Hospital, which receives its
patients largely from the lower east
side, a quarter teeming with variety,
who are made to appreciate most fully
the extent of superstition regarding
remedies for disease.
Italian immigrants are peculiarly in.
teresting in this respect. They fre-
quently attribute stomach trouble to
cat's hairs supposed to have been swal-
lowed and persist in eating eggshells
to cure it. They also eat snails as a
remedy for consumption, though here
they are supported by a highly respect:
able authority—that of “The Accom:
plished Physician,” published in 1656,
which declares that snail water, “ow-
ing to the cool, clammy and glutinous
substance of the snail,” is particularly
grateful to the consumptive. These
Italians use castor oil whenever thelr
feelings become at all excited, either
by joy er sorrow, burn rolls of waxed
paper in their ears to cure the earache
and willingly go through the even more
heroic treatment of lighting fires on
their bare stomachs when they have
pela,
The trouble with these people is mere-
ly that they have not advanced with
the times, but are still holding beliefs
which are held by the most intelligent
and best educated men of a few cen-
turies ago. An apothecary’s shop in
Queen Elizabeth's time was stocked
with things that strike moderns as sin-
gular enough, considered as medicine.
These were crabs’ claws, foxes’ lungs,
stags’ hearts, boars’ tusks, sea horses’
teeth, elks’ hoofs, precious stones in
powder, flying fish, tortoises, alligators,
dried toads, worms, scorpions and even
human mummies. These latter were
quite popular as a remedy for epilepsy,
vertigo and palsy, besides being sup-
posed to heal wounds and mortifica-
tions. Mummy cost 5s. 4d. a pound, or
$1.28 in our money, and was a recog-
nized staple of commerce, but, being so i
expensive, an artificial substitute was |
invented which is described by Crollius |
in his “Royal Chemist” as calling for
“the carcass of a young man, some say
red headed, not dying of disease, but
killed.” It is probable that this ghast-
ly recipe was responsible for many of
the mysterious disappearances common
in those thrilling days. Human skulls
sold for as much as 11 shillings apiece
and were given in the form of a pow-
der, mixed with a little oil.
The most highly esteemed prescrip-
tions of the old time apothecary were
those which cost the most and which
must needs, therefore, include pow-
dered precious stones. “Gascon’s pow-
der” was one of the most costly of
these medicaments, being prescribed
by the great physicians for their more
important patients. It cost 40 shillings
($9.60) an ounce and was made In
equal parts of crabs’ eyes, pearls, white
amber, oriental bezoar and the black
tips of crabs’ claws.
Precious stones, too, were thought to
have much efficacy when worn as amu-
lets. The ruby protected its wearer
from plague and pestilence, the ame
thyst kept a man steady and sober,
bloodstones stopped bleeding, the onyx
prevented epilepsy, the topaz cured in-
flammation, the opal strengthened
weak eyes, and the emerald prevented
foolishness and aided the memory. Con-
cerning the emerald an old writer fur
ther testifies: “It takes away vain and
foolish fears, as of devils and hobgob-
lins, folly and anger, and causeth good
conditions; if it do so worn about one,
reason will tell him that being beaten
into powder and taken inwardly it will
do much more.”
witch of Salisbury, used to send her
pupils into the fields to gather vervaip
and dill. The sun worshipers of Persia
always carried vervain when they ap
proached their altars. They gathered
it when there was neither sun
“Fuga
because it routed evil spirits. It was
a common ingredient of magical con
coctlons and is still gathered with much
geremony by the peasantry of France
and Germany when St. John's day
{June 24) comes around.
Solomon's seal was another of the
wonder working plants, said to be the
herb which Solomon used to cure epi
lepsy by placing it in a ring applied to
the nostrils of the patient, from which
elrcumstance arose the popularity of
the magical ring or seal that figures in
80 many eastern tales,
Curious stories are told of the man-
drake, a scion of the potato family, the
fruit of which used to be called the
“love apple” (a name later applied to
the tomato), no doubt because to eat of
it generously produced temporary in
sanity. It was much used in love phil
ters to awaken the tender passion, and
the most efficacious specimens were
obtained from the vicinity of gibbets,
where evil doers swung by the neck.
There was but one way to gather the
mandrake, under pain of death for mis
take, since the belief was that it groan.
ed aloud when pulled from the ground
and that whoever heard the sound fell
dead on the spot. The custom was to
fasten a dog by the tail to the plant
and beat him until in his struggles he
tore up the mandrake by the roots.
The person superintending the opera
tion had his ears stopped with pitch
and so escaped, but the dog, for which
the same precaution was not taken,
heard the groan and died.
Extraordinary cures were accom
plished by some familiar flowers in the
olden times. The anemone was thought
by the ancients to be an emblem of
disease, and Pliny says that physicians
recommended that the first anemone
seen in the spring should be picked and
concealed in a scarlet cloth until sick
ness came, requiring that it should be
hung around the neck. The juice of the
forgetmenot was credited with the
power of hardening steel until no met
al could resist it. The peony was used
by Paeon, the famous physician of an
cient Greece, from whom it takes its
name, to cure wounds. Demons were
supposed always to flee from the spot
whferé it grew.
The elder tree also had some remark.
sticks of elder in his pocket he shall
not fret nor pant, let the horse go nev-
er so hard.” A piece of an elder branch
cut out between two knots used
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No Use For Them.
“No; accepted.”—London Tit-Bits,
The angels may heve wider spheres
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duty, but right with them and with
us is one and the same thing.—Chapin.
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FAUBLE’S
The Capture of a Live Okapi.
Great interest bas been aroused in Eog-
pieation from Capts. Boyd Alexander and
Aogu on the River Welle by the captains’
lector. The latter made
ed some
what speculative nature and
okaph. He states that is ie ly found
singly and sometimes in but accord-
iog to the Mombatti hunters, groups of
three have been seen on rare occasions. He
also remarks that the frequents
baunts where there is a 1 stream of
water surrounded with muddy and
py ground. Io such regione there thrives
a certain plant with a very large leat,
growing on a single stalk, and which in-
variably attains a height of some ten
feet. is leal constitutes the favorite
food of the creature, and Capi.£ Gonlisy
ventures to suggess that the is onl
to be found in those districts where thi
plant exists. The creature feeds and
prowls around through the swamps during
the night, since it is never observed in the
daytime. It bas, however, been seen feed-
ing by the natives up to as late as 8 o'clock
io the morning, but very rarely. Daring
the day the animal lurks in the fastvesses
and seclusion of the forest, venturing
abroad in search of food at dusk. Capt.
Gosling on three occasions observed the an-
imal busily feeding, aud was able to ap-
oach quite close to it without {righten-
pea it away, so that he was able to follow
its movements and babitn among the
swamps with perfect ease. Capt. Gosling
is the first white man to see the okapi alive
and it is anticipated as the result of his
close observations, that he will be able to
contribute extensively to our meager
knowledge of the animal. Oo these occa-
sions at first it could bardly be discerned,
so carefully was it concealed in the swamp
vegetation. The animal is of re-
markably acute hearing, and oh this ac-
count the Mombatti natives class it among
the bush-buck, the local name of which is
“bungana.’”’ Owing to the extreme wari-
ness, even the natives, who are born hunt-
ers, very rarely succeed in running it to
earth, the most successful methods of se-
caring it being by means of the pit trap-
ping. The dead specimen that bas been
procured will jrohably be forwarded to
one of the English museums, since it is
stated to be in excellent condition.-—Seien-
tific American.
Worse Than Childlessness,
There are parts of the world where girl
babies are drowned like superfluous kit-
tens, and others in which is is not uncom-
mon for the daughters in the large families
of the poor to be sold hy their parents into
lives of prostitution.
On the other hand, the pages of history
are filled with examples of the devoted
lives of childless men and women who
bave worked unselfishly for the good of
their kind. Bachelors and virgins have
been the saints of the world, and the child.
less are the philanthropists, the founders
of colleges, hospitals, art collections and
libraries, the philosophers, the great writ.
ers, leaders and thinkers of the race. Plato,
ton, David Hume, Locke, Spinoza, Thom-
as Carlisle, Florence Nightingale, Ruskin
aod Herbert Spencer are only a few of the
great names in this class. Av interesting
volume could he written on the indebted-
ness of the world to childless men and wo-
men. The pattern of civic virtue with
twelve nokempt children and a jaded, care-
worn wife has been held ap for our admi-
ration long enongh. Without decrying
matrimony we may now speak a good word
for the respectable celibate.
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