Saved By Honey.

Otago Witness, Issue 2779, 19 June 1907, Page 76

Saved By Honey.

According to Dr Pol Demade, honey should occupy an honourable place in therapeutics. He relates that a lady asked his advice about a tiny, emaciated baby. The- child, which lay in its .mother's arms, was nine months old, and gave one _th? feelir<y that it had but to close its litt'o eyes for death to assert itself. The infant was suffering from diarrhnea, which had refused to yield to all remedies tried; the poor Itltle "creature was emaciated to an extreme degree, with bjack rings under tho eyes, and the lower stomach fearfully large. The poor sufferer had no appetite whatever, but was in its ulace- plagued with almost incessant vomiting and diarrhoea. He ordered her to feed tlie infant on honey and water, nothing else absolutely, for eight days, and if the child were stiU living at the end of that time to give goafs milk, and water in the proportion of one to two parts respectively. " I dismissed the caee from my mind, since I did not hope tor anything bettor than death as a release," says the doctor. "What was my astonishment when, at the end of three monlhi, 1 was shown a healthy-looking, well-nourished baby, with an excellent appetito and regular habits, and its stomach reduced to normal proportions, may be easily guessed. Here wa«3 my little wretched creature nothing less than metamorphosed by m*aus of the honey !"