The Clove as a Preventive of Nausea

1895

The funny men in the alleged funny papers, says Dr. E. B. Sangree in the Philadelphia Times and Register, have so long made merry over the man with the cloven breath that I am rather timid about advocating this odoriferous spice. Yet my experience has been that the clove is a good antinauseant.

Persons who get "qualms" when riding in the cars or on boats can almost certainly quiet them by slowly chewing a clove or two. Indigestion, accompanied by formation of gas, nausea and dizziness, will often yield to the same simple measure. There are other and better means of accomplishing these results, but the value of the clove is that it occupies so little room, is so easily carried about and can be so readily got when wanted.

Man's Death Due To Fright

1920

Acute Indigestion Sets In When His Horse Runs Away.

COLUSA, Cal. — Louis Zeisler of San Francisco died at Wilbur Springs, near here, as a result of being scared by a horse. Zeisler had been riding when the horse became frightened and ran away. Zeisler became ill and died. The inquest jurors decided death was due to acute indigestion brought on by "a scare from a horse soon after eating a hearty meal."

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 3.

The Original Caribs

1902

Very mysterious is the origin of the fierce savage, now almost extinct, who were in possession of the Caribs, the smaller West Indian islands, when the white man discovered them.

They showed a distinct Mongolian character and it would be hard to distinguish a Carib infant from a Chinese child. Twenty years ago a Chinaman who had drifted to Dominica declared the Caribs to be his own people and married a pure-bred Carib woman. The resultant child showed no deviation from the native type.

The Caribs have dropped their man-eating ways; but in the sixteenth century they scoured the Spanish main in search of human food and from Porto Rico alone are said to have taken more than 5,000 men to be eaten. Though Spaniards, Frenchmen, Dutchmen, negroes or Arrowaks were all meat to them, the Caribs seem to have shown an interesting preference for certain nationalities. Davis says in his "History of the Caribby Isands," that "the Caribbeans have tasted of all the nations that frequented them, and affirm that the French are the most delicate and the Spaniards are hardest of digestion."

Laborde in one of his jaunts in St. Vincent overtook on the road a communicative Carib who was beguiling the tedium of his journey by gnawing at the remains of a boiled human foot. This man ate Arrowaks only. "Christians," he said, "gave him indigestion."

Topsy, Best of Bloodhounds is Dead

Iowa, 1914

Topsy, one of the most valuable of the bloodhounds in the Shores & Strumpfer kennels, was found dead yesterday morning. She was in her kennel on the premises of Sheriff Shores. Her owners had refused $800 for her.

Saturday evening, when the dogs were fed, Topsy displayed no symptoms of illness. She ate her portion of the evening meal.

An autopsy yesterday showed that death had been caused by acute indigestion.

Topsy was seven years old and was trained by H. G. Strumpfer at Springfield, Ill. She was one of the best criminal trailers in the country, having made a large number of catches. She could trail a man or a horse. Her first work in Waterloo was running the trail of the men who tried to burglarize the safe of the Hudson bank a year ago last autumn.

Her last work was on New Year's day.

Topsy was almost human in her genius for man-trailing. She also was good-tempered and displayed an affectionate nature, which is not common with bloodhounds.

Sheriff Shores has several other man-trailers, but heavily feels the loss of Topsy.

—Waterloo Evening Courier, Waterloo, IA, Jan. 5, 1914, p. 2.

Would You Buy Medicine Because of This Guy?

Canada, 1915, Advertisement

He looks like Moses after he saw the golden calf, maybe a bit more wrung out. Quite a bit different from the models we see in medical ads today!

But George McKay, Esq., writes:

Kippen, Ont., June 17th, 1913.

"I have been using 'Fruit-a-tives' as a family remedy for many years. They are the best medicine I have ever tried. 'Fruit-a-tives' do me the most good -- they never gripe and their action is pleasant.

"I have used them for Indigestion and Constipation with the best results, and I heartily recommend them to anyone similarly afflicted.

"These troubles have left me completely and I give 'Fruit-a-tives' full credit for all this. A nicer pill a man cannot take."

GEORGE McKAY.

The enormous demand for "Fruit-a-tives" is steadily increasing, due to the fact that this wonderful fruit medicine gives prompt relief in all cases of Indigestion, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Rheumatism, Chronic Headaches, and Neuralgia, and all Kidney and Bladder Troubles.

50c a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25c. Sold by all dealers or sent on receipt of price by Fruit-a-tives Limited.

--Manitoba Morning Free Press, Winnipeg, January 9, 1915, page 3.

Comment: I wonder if they still make Fruit-a-tives. Anything that cures all cases of headaches can't be bad!

Those Ravenous Eskimos

1916

They Eat and Digest Food That Would Kill an Ordinary Man

We bear much of American dyspepsia, but there is one native race of America that is certainly not troubled in this respect. The Eskimo defies all the laws of hygiene and thrives. He eats until he is satisfied, but is said never to be satisfied while a shred of his feast remains unconsumed. His capacity is limited by the supply and by that only.

The Eskimo cannot make any mistake about the manner of cooking his food, since, as a rule, he does not cook it. Nor, so far as the blubber or fat of the arctic annual is concerned, is the Eskimo concerned about his manner of eating it. Indeed, he may be said not to eat it at all. He cuts it into long strips an inch wide and an inch thick and then lowers the strip down his throat as one might lower a rope into a well.

Despite all this the Eskimo does not suffer from indigestion. He can make a good meal off the flesh and skin of the walrus, provision so hard and gritty that in cutting up the animal the knife must be continually sharpened. The teeth of a little Eskimo child will, it is said by those in a position to know, meet in a bit of walrus skin as the teeth of an American child would meet in the flesh of an apple, although the hide of the walrus is from a half an inch to an inch in thickness and bears considerable resemblance to the hide of an elephant. The Eskimo child will bite it and digest it and never know what dyspepsia means. — Harper's Weekly.

—Stevens Point Daily Journal, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, July 29, 1916, page 3.

Comment: I don't know, do you suppose this article is true? The part about lowering the meat down their throat like lowering a rope down a well. After all, if the children have such good biting abilities, they're obviously adept at using their teeth. So why would the adults simply partake of big strips of meat by lowering it down their throats?