For to tell you the truth, the modes of treatment which we
physicians have hitherto used in cases showing the symptoms that these
did, has failed in nearly eighty per cent. of every hundred. But it is
true enough sometimes, that many of these 'grandmother remedies' as we
call them, are more efficacious than any others."
"This is not a grandmother's remedy, Doctor," smilingly replied
Agnus. "It was told to me some years ago in New Orleans."
She here concisely narrated to him the history of her experience when
she helped to nurse her father in the latter city.
"Who was it told you, Miss Arnold? was it Dr. Robinson? He was noted
about that period for his success in treating bad cases of the fever.
"No, sir, it was a Spanish gentleman, who had lived many years in
Havana. Once in Vera Cruz he took the vomito, and was saved by this
treatment.
"Most astonishing!" mused the doctor. "I shall not fail to try it."
"I have another remedy which is equally efficient in small-pox,
Doctor, that I got from the same gentleman. You might find it useful
at some time, and I assure you I have never known it to fail even in
the worst cases.
"Thank you, I will accept it with pleasure."
Miss Arnold repeated the following, and the doctor took it carefully
down in his note book:
"As soon as the headache comes, and the chill down the back, and the
stomach becomes sick, and the limbs begin to ache, clear the stomach
with a strong emetic, put the feet in hot mustard water several times
during the next twelve hours.
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