Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1881 — The Blue Doctor. [ARTICLE]

The Blue Doctor.

One of the curiosities of Paris is Dr, Chirou, called the “blue grass." This name he obtained through being called in to see a lady who was at the point of death, as was supposed, from some mysterious weakness. He sent at once, not for medicaments, but for an upholsterer, and ordered this tradesman at once to refurnish the whole of the lady's rooms with stuffs and carpets dyed with indigo. He clothed her with stuffs similarly dyed, and ordered that none should approach her unless clad in indigo-dyed garments. The result was, so the story goes, that the lady recovered, and M. Chirou received the name of “Ze doctcur bleu." He is not liked by the regular practitioners, who do not scruple to call him a quack, but he has made some Wonderful cures by wonderful methods. One of these cures occurred with the wife of an eminent English statesman. This lady had long suffered from an apparently incurable cough of a very distressing nature. She went to the blue doctor, who for three months made her inhale daily a mixture of chloroform and the fumes of some strong acid. Every day she was chloroformed to insensibility, and at the same time was acidulated, with the result that she is now quite well.