"Ode to Health;

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"Some years ago when it was the custom to attempt
curing delirium tremens by giving brandy, one out
of every four died at Odinburg Hospital. Since
then, the professor of the miedical department has treat-
ed 300 cases of delirium tremens without alcohol,
without losing a single patient."
["]Prof. Gardner of the Glasgon University gave
a hundred men 30 oz. of alcohol, 17 died of the hun-
dred. An other hundred were allowed only three oz,
and eleven died out of the hundred."
"For a teetotal hospital at Leeds three hundred
patients, who took not a drop, all recovered.
"Of two-hundred and nine young persons who were not allowed either wine or whiskey, not one died." [These two
last lines ought to have followed the hundred.]
Let facts decided." W. Rural, Sept. 10, 1871 from Halls Jr. of
Health.
Peruvian Bark its Discovery.
Is said to have been by "a soldier burning with fever
in a South American forest, came to a pool of water.
He drank deep, and laid down to rest. He awoke greatly relieved, with his fever broken. He spread the news. The
pool was impregnated with the bark of the Chincona

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