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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 'Twas that all his life his theory of curing folks had been wrong. Yes, sir, all wrong He's discovered that medicines wa'n't what really cured at all. The real cures was those provided by Mother Nature. Whose mother's that? says I. His wife's? No, no He ain't married. Don't you understand. Mother Nature; everybody's mother, yours and mine and everybody's. Mother Nature means the earth we live on and the sun and the sand and the fresh air and salt water?and?and all. Those are what cures, not medicines at all. And he'd just found it out. Humph says I, remembering some of the advertisements; how about the million or so souls that the 'Willow Wine' and the 'Licorice Lozenges' and the 'Pleurisy Plasters' yanked out of the grave? Land sakes I've read more letters testifying to I know. That's what I said to Miss Emeline. But she explained all that. Doctor Wool had explained it to her, you see. 'Twa'n't the 'Wine' and the 'Plasters' they took that really cured 'em. They wa'n't cured by them at all. They're a set of awful liars, then, says I. They ought to take something for that. Never mind; heave ahead. She went on, explaining that the medicines helped some, in a way, because the folks that took 'em thought they was helped, but that really they was only what she called stimulated, and stimulants wa'n't lasting cures. I told her that I'd seen plenty of folks in temperance towns stimulated by Jamaica ginger, but she didn't even smile. This was a serious business for her; I could see that. No, says she. Doctor Wool had discovered 'twas Nature that done the curing, and he'd decided to give up his medicine making and start in curing in the right way. He was figgering to open a sanitarium. Well, he'd no sooner said that than Miss Emeline had ...
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