STRANGE CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.

Saturday Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 124, 24 November 1877, Page 15

STRANGE CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.

A correspondent of a medical journal offers the following as a new cure for consump-

tion : Put a dozen whole lemons in cold water an J boil them soft (not too soft), roll and squeeze until all the juice is extracted, sweeten the juice enough to be palatable, and then drink. Use as many as a dozen a day. Should they cause pain or looseness of the bowels, lessen, the quantity, and use five or six a day until better, and then begin and use a dozen again. By the time you have used five or six dozen you will begin to gain strength and have an appetite. Of course, as you get better you need not use so many. Follow these directions, and we know that you will never regret it if there is any help for you ; only keep it up faithfully. We know of two cases, where both the patients were given up by the physicians, and were in the last stage of consumption, yet both were cured by using lemons according to the directions we have stated. One lady in particular was bedridden and very low, and tried everything that money could procure, but all in vain, when, to please a friend, she was finally persuaded to use the lemons. She began to use them in February, and in April she weighed. 140 lbs. She is a healthy woman to-day,-and likely to live as long as any of . us.