Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — Curing the Rheumatism. [ARTICLE]

Curing the Rheumatism.

“Talk about sick men in a hotel," said Ed Frey, a veteran hotel clerk, who is stopping at the Southern. “Let me tell you of an experience we had with a fellow not long ago. He came to the house all right, but no took a heavy cold, and it seemed to go into a sort of rheumatism and settled in his shoulders. The poor fellow suffered awfully, and couldn’t lift his hands to save his life. He sent for a doctor, and, of course, got a prescription which didn’t do him a particle of good. One of the bell boys heard that witch-hazel was a good thing, and, seeing a bottle of it in one of the rooms, brought it in to the sick man. The fellow was glad enough to try anything, and the bell boy rubbed him with it manfully. About two hours after the rubbing the sick man felt the thing begin to burn, and word soon came to the office that he felt as if he were all afire. I went up and found him in awful pain. I asked him the cause of it, and ho pointed to the witchhazel bottle. I looked at it and found that it was an old bottle filled with furniture polish. There was a state of things. Finally the fellow, in his pain, commenced to jump about the room, and as he did so he would throw his arms over hls head. In about an hour’s time tho burning stopped and his rheumatism was gone. He had a few blisters to take care of, but he was so glad to get the use of his arms that he never made a kick. Funny cure, wasn’t it?”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.