People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1897 — Honey a Care For [?]manpox. [ARTICLE]

Honey a Care For [?]manpox.

Experiments made with smallpox patients in Oaxaca, Mexico, show that by administering honey dilated in water to smallpox patients the pustules of tbe worst variety disappear and the fever is immediately diminished. The matter attraots mnoh attention. The remedy was accidentally discovered by a young girl who was down with the disease and secretly refreshed herself with honey and water, with astonishing curative results, aud it was then tried on soldiers sick with the complaint.—St Lonis Globe-Democrat.