Rheumatism and Earth Worms.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1711, 24 July 1885, Page 3

Rheumatism and Earth Worms.

Mr James Wood, sen., writes a follows to the Canterbury Times:—" In the year 1837, I had the privilege of residing in a haunted house, rent free, the previous tenants having left in consequence. Not being superstitious I accepted the situation and took possession. In one of the out buildings there was staying a poor object of a man, named Simond. He was dreadfully afflicted with rheumatism, quite incapable of doing anything for himself, in fact they bad to feed him. Shortly after my advent, he told me he had heard of a cure. It was, he said, the oil of worms. I assisted him by digging them, and putting them into wide mouthed fruit bottles. These we put on the post* of the stockyard, where the heat of the *un soon melted them down into a slimy mas* of putrescence. With this he lubricated his hands and wrists ai best he could, every application tending to remove his pains and improve his condition ; and, with no other lemedy, in less than three weeks he was able to resume his labour in the South’ern Hemisphere : and from having been reduced almoit to helplessness, he soon became a stalwart man, and for years afterwards was able to follow his occupation. Myself and good wife can vouch for the foregoing if necessary.