Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — Cobwebs in Medicine. [ARTICLE]

Cobwebs in Medicine.

The “cobweb cure” for asthma has occasioned a great deal of comment throughout the country. The family in Wooster, Ohio, who effected the cure of a daughter by this peculiar remedy thought they owed it to the public to make the case known, never expecting that the publication of the matter would cause them to be deluged with letters inquiring about the alleged cure. At first the family undertook to answer inquiries, but when the letters reached hundreds daily the head of the household, who is engaged in other business, found it would require the entire time of himself and family to attend to the large correspondence. So he had circulars printed in which he gave particulars of the method, and for these he charges a fee in order to limit in some measure the number of inquiries. He charges $1 for three “cobweb pills,” and in speaking of the matter said: “I have to crawl around garrets and all sorts of dirty places to get the webs. I then have to clean them. All this takes time, and I feel if it is not worth $1 it is not worth a cent. Then there is the matter of discerning the difference between spiders’ webs and cobwebs. I have heard from a number of people who under--took to cure themselves that they were made very sick through the poison of spiders’ webs, which they thought the same as cobwebs.”— [Washington News.