Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — CURE FOR LOCKJAW. [ARTICLE]

CURE FOR LOCKJAW.

An old physician of forty years’ practice recommends the following treatment for lockjaw, having successfully tried it on himself and others. If any person is threatened or taken with lockjaw, from injury on the hands, feet arms or legs, do not wait for a doctor, but put the injured part into the following preparation; Put hot wood ashes into water as warm as can be borne; if the iniured part cannot be put into the water, then wet thick folded cloths in the water and then apply them as soon as possible to the parts, and at the same time bathe the backbone from the neck down with some powerful laxative stimulant, say ceyenne pepper and watei or mustard and water (good vinegar is better than water). It should be as hot as ’ the patient could beai It. Do not hesitate; go to work and do it, and don’t stop until the jaws open. No person need die of lock jaw if these directions are followed.—Eastern Press. Children’s fashionable short dresses, according to a Boston school teacher, are now accountable for more diphtheria, scarlet fever, etc. than bad plumbing is. } >