The vaccine watchman / W.D. Stokes.

  • Stokes, W. D.
Date:
[1888?]
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Credit: The vaccine watchman / W.D. Stokes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    God—they are guilty of the sin of omission, omitting to do their duty. Curs of Lock-jaw, Rheumatic Fever, and In¬ flammation on Kidneys, Liver, and Lungs. Mrs. Mitchell, 84, Greenwich Road, Deptford, near London, had been lying fourteen weeks in great pain with rheumatic fever, and could not bear any one to touch her. She was paralysed so that she could not move hand or foot for over three months. She had been treated by Dr. Brookhouse, High Street, Deptford, and Dr. Kirby, in the same street. She could not bear to be moved, and for over three months was not able to feed herself, and for several weeks only able to drink a little beef tea and lemon water. She had lost the use of her limbs for over three months, and not only had those fearful pains in her limbs, but in her right side through inflammation of the liver and fearful pains in the lungs (which were loaded with phlegm), and very bad constipation. She had been jaw-locked three days before I commenced to treat her, and through the bad state of her liver and heart, and the violence of the disease, she was turning very dark in the face, and no one had any hope of her recovery, for it was thought impossible. I prepared herbal medicine for her, without seeing her, and told her husband that she would get up in nine days : she got up and came downstairs the ninth day, as I said. I believe the doctor was kept on until she came downstairs, when he was told that his medicine had not been taken since I commenced to treat the case. If those doctors could not cure the woman when she was first taken, or before she was jaw-locked, and turning black in the face, and almost a skeleton, what chance had they of curing when I took her in hand ? This great sufferer has enjoyed good health ever since — over four years ago. Who were the Quacks ? If a doctor has not the wisdom and knowledge to effect cures as I have done, his diploma ought to 'be taken from him and given to the man who can cure. Valuable information, as a present to the world. Rheum¬ atic fever generally comes on through a cold, and the whole system gets full of inflammation, as it was in Mrs. Mitchell’s case. Others might be cured at first with a handful of the herb yarrow ; make a tea with the herb, strain, and sweeten with treacle or brown sugar, add as
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