Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1894 — NATURE’S REMEDY. [ARTICLE]

NATURE’S REMEDY.

What Is Clamed for tho Cold Bath In Typhoid Fever. The efficacy of the cold bath in typhoid fever is now admitted, says the Washington Capital, and tho doctors are claiming it is a discovery of science. Fever patients would have discovered it long ago if they had boon permitted to treat themsolve*. A dear friend of mine discovere 1 it for himself when a prisoner of war in East Tennesseo. He had been captured and was on his way further south when taken with typhoid fever. His guard found nim delirious when waking him to continue his march. They consigned him to the care of a farmer’s wife who looked kindly upm the suffering prisoner. She gave him a spare room and religiously shut the windows lost he should have a draft of Heaven’s air and die; she denied him the cool water of the well, becauso the country doctor said so. The patient lnv still in tho midnight hours, and the kind watcher by his bod slept tho sleep of the righteous. Awakening suddenly the nurse found tho 6ick bed empty. The patient had gone. Running out to the front yard she heard a splpttering noise, which she traced to the deep, cold mountain well. Getting a candle she lowered it by a string to the water’s brink, and there stood the Yanke3 soldier up to his cilia in the cold water. Ho had escaped whilb sho slept, and had sought for coolness and found it. It took some time to arouse the sleepy negro man, who was farm hand aud general factotum. After an hour or moro the soldier was rescued. He was hoisted up and for tbe first time in many hours ho was conscious. He was wrapped in blankets amid many forebodings of death. Sweet sleep ensued, and the next morning appetite returned. A few days and strength returned. The man was cured by nature’s remedy. lie never saw a confederate prison, for the kind woman piloted him over the mountains to the Union lines. He remembers that well to-day with the deepest gratitude, and no summer p sses that ho does not send to the east Tennessee farm some remembrance of the kindness he had thorn.