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In less severe cases, where fermentation of food is the cause of the disease, frequently a dessertspoonful of castor oil, or other simple purgative, will prove sufficient to cure. Brandy often gets the credit of curing in such cases. It does so simply because the cases in which it kills are not taken into account.
Under such an arrangement every branch of this important service would assume a more simple and precise character, its efficiency would be increased, and scrupulous economy in the expenditure of public money promoted. I would also recommend that the Marine Corps be merged in the artillery or infantry, as the best mode of curing the many defects in its organization.
I then sent parties on shore to erect tents, and shoot the wild pigs, while I superintended the fixing of coppers on the beach to boil the salt out of the sea water, which would be necessary for curing the provisions. I also dug shallow pans in the rock, close to the water's edge, that I might gain as much salt as possible by means of evaporation.
They instructed the new settlers in the best art of curing and smoking tobacco, while the latter, in return, made them drunk with true Hollands, and then taught them the art of making bargains.
He'll have to be careful how he treats Simpkins when he's called in. It won't do to make mistakes and go curing him accidentally." "I suppose," said the Major bitterly, "that you'll employ Sabina Gallagher to make the wedding-cake. She might begin the poisoning." "Certainly not," said Meldon.
He was the great doctor among these people, their medicine-man, and he had a very philosophical and inventive mind, and the idea of curing Nunez of his peculiarities appealed to him. One day when Yacob was present he returned to the topic of Nunez. "I have examined Bogota," he said, "and the case is clearer to me. I think very probably he might be cured."
These people with all their Medicine Men and Women know nothing about curing sick folks, and if I do become ill that will be the end of me." The boy was in anything but a cheerful frame of mind, but he faced the position like a hero.
"Each contains some precious relic, efficacious in curing every disease to which the human body is liable," answered the priest. "Nonsense!" exclaimed the captain; "we cannot allow such rubbish to remain on board."
As the second brother had no other invalid on his visiting-list, he devoted the time not given to the cure of his patient, to the killing of game wherewith to stock the house-keeper's larder; so that, whatever he did, he was always busy in the line of professional duty killing or curing.
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