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Gunpowder

The Medical Genius · Stacy Jones

Open remedy: Gunp.

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SECTION 67.

GUNPOWDER.

Prevention of Disease. If you would escape contagion, infection, miasm - be able to travel in the most unhealthy climates and localities without danger of sickness - Burn a thimbleful of gunpowder in your bedroom or tent, and a very small quantity in your trunk and wardrobe, daily; thus keeping your clothing in an atmosphere full charged with the gas. This has been thoroughly tested and found to be true.

Bite of a Snake or Mad Dog. - "Pour some gunpowder on the bite, and touch it with a lighted match. This is an almost painless cautery, and reliable safeguard. "

Tape - Worm. Take a tablespoonful of Gunpowder in a cupful of sweet milk, followed in ten hours with an ounce of Castor oil. Success in twenty - five cases in succession.

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These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

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