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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by

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We find the following sketch of the author of this
treatise in the American Cyclopaedia.

Clingman, Thomas L., an American Senator, born in
Huntsville, Surry Co., N. C, of a family of revolutionary
distinction, was graduated with high honors at Chapel
Hill university, and studied the law. But just as he was
about to enter upon the practice of his profession, the
people of Surry elected him to the State Legislature, where
he served with distinction. In 1863 he retired, and
removed his residence to Asheville, Buncombe Co., where
he still resides. Not long afterward he was elected to
the State Senate. In 1843 he was elected to Congress
over the Hon. James Graham, and, with the exception
of one term, he was a member of the House of Repre-
sentatives for a continuous period of thirteen years,
during which he shared in almost all important debates,
and, especially as the chairman of the committee on
foreign relations, acquitted himself with ability. During
his first week in Congress, Mr. Clingman had a parlia-
mentary encounter with the Hon. Henry A. Wise,
wherein he displayed great readiness and self-possession.
His next effort was a speech against the so-called twenty-
first rule, which was extensively published, and his reply
to what was known as Duncan's "coon speech" also
made a decided impression. At the second session of the
twenty-seventh Congress, he delivered his speech on the
causes of Mr. Clay's defeat, which led to a duel with the
Hon. W. L. Yancey, of Alabama. He has also spoken on
the slavery question, Gen. Scott's conduct in Mexico,
the sectional contest between the North and South, the
tariff, the future policy of the government, against com-
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4 THE TOBACCO KEMEDY.

mercial restrictions, on mediation in the Eastern war,
Texas debts, British policy in Cuba, and especially against
the Clayton and Bulwer treaty. During a service of
twelve years on the floor of Congress, when at Washington,
he attended every day's session of the house, without a
single exception. In politics he was originally elected
as a whig, and represented one of the most decided whig
districts in the Union. Afterward he united himself with
the democratic party, and represented finally one of the
most decided democratic districts of the State. He made
valuable contributions to geology and mineralogy, his
name frequently appearing in "Silliman's Journal "as
one who has brought to light many interesting facts
connected with the mountains of North Carolina, the
highest peak of which he has explored and measured, and
which now bears his name. In 1858, on the appointment
of the Hon. Asa Biggs as United States judge for the
district of North Carolina, Mr. Clingman was chosen
by the Governor of that State to fill the vacancy occasioned
thereby in the United States Senate, and afterward
elected for a term of six years.

Gen. Clingman's subsequent career in the United
States Senate, and as a General in the late civil war, are
matters of History.

THE TOBACCO REMEDY.

Though so much has been published within the last
six months on the subject of the uses of tobacco as a
local application for diseases and injuries, it still seems
that many persons are in want of information od the sub-
ject. Letters from all parts of the Union reach me, in
which enquiries are made as to the modes of its applica-
tion, and as to the various classes of cases for the cure of
which it can be advantageously applied.

It seems to me, that a phamphlet of moderate length
should be issued, which may contain the information
sought. Though in the statements that are made below,
there may seem to be some repetition, yet it will be seen
that the subject will be, for this reason, only the better
understood.

I present in the first place, the entire original article
as published in the " Health and Home " of May :

THE TOBACCO EEMEDY.

(WRITTEN FOR HEALTH AND HOME, WASHINGTON, D. C.)

Believing that such knowledge of the advantages of
wet tobacco as a poultice, as I have acquired, if it should
become general, will be instrumental in saving annually
many thousands of lives in the United States, I have de-
cided that it is my duty to make a statement on the
subject.
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6 THE TOBACCO REMEDY.

To do this properly will require some space, as mere
condensed propositions or statements will not usually
make as much impression or be as well remembered as
are things set forth in the form of a narrative of facts.
I ought at the outset to state that I never chewed, smoked,
nor snuffed tobacco ; I believe, however, that it on sev-
eral occasions has saved my life, and in other respects
been of essential service to me and many of my friends.

The first instance I can remember of its use as a remedy
for inflammations, was seeing Tom Kelly, when I was a
small boy, spurt its juice from his mouth into the eye of
his horse, then very red from inflammation. He stated
that he was curing it in that way. I also early in life
knew of its being applied to those who had been stung by
wasps, bees, etc. When in college, a student told me
that he had cured a chronic inflammation by putting a
wet tobacco leaf on the part.

In March, 1847, on the day after I had announced my-
self as a candidate for Congress, while carelessly riding a
wild horse, the animal sprang against the fence and
knocked me off, so that I lit on the ground with so much
violence as to sprain my right ankle very severely. As I
had some miles to ride into Hendersonville, N.C, before
any remedy could be applied, the ankle was swollen to
double its size and very painful. Dr. Whitted directed a
poultice to be applied. After enduring severe pain for
some hours, I thought of trying tobacco. I sent for
some leaves, had them wet and wrapped around the
ankle, and placed the poultice over them to keep them
moist. Within an hour the pain ceased, and I slept
through the night. The next morning on examining
the ankle, instead of its being swollen, it appeared rather
less than its natural size ; the skin had a wrinkled ap-
pearance and was very white. The membrane between
the bones which had received the shock, however, was
very tender, so that I was obliged to use crutches. Pur-

THE TOBACCO KEMEDY. 7

ing my canvass, which, lasted four months, I twice while
traveling had it hurt by accidents, and each time sub-
dued the pain and swelling by the use of tobacco. Dur-
ing the war, by the falling of a galloping horse, I was
thrown over his head and sprained the same ankle badly,
and used tobacco with the like effect.

My next application of it was to a severe gunshot
wound, received on the 19th of August, 1.864, near Peters-
burg, Va. A bullet ranged through my leg, from near
the ankle, so as to come out on the opposite side, just be-
low the knee, cutting the muscles and nerves and making
a long and very painful wound. I lost so much blood
that I was carried from the field in an insensible condi-
tion. I was so feeble that the surgeons expressed great
apprehension that I might not be able to survive the
fever which they expected to come on in a few days.
About that time several of my friends had died of the
secondary fever which followed their wounds. In a few
days my left leg began to swell and throb with heat.
The surgeons said I must keep it wrapped in wet cloths.
I told them that I would keep down the inflammation by
an application of tobacco. They at once asserted that
such an application would be ruinous. After they left,
I sent my servant for some tobacco, enveloped the
wounded leg in it, and kept it wet with the cloths over
it. The pain diminished in an hour or two, and
the heat and throbbing ceased, and I rested more
quietly than I had been doing. On the next day, when
the surgeons called to see me, on looking at the wound,
they expressed much surprise and said, " You may keep
on the tobacco." I remember that Gen. ftobert E. Lee
called to see me that day, and after looking at me a
moment, said, " Oh, General, you are not going to die,
your eye is too bright. " The tobacco being a powerful
nerve tonic, it always greatly excites my intellectual
faculties,

8 THE TOBACCO REMEDY.

Although several months passed before I could walk
without crttches, yet I had no fever and little pain from
the inflammation. I am satisfied that if tobacco were
properly applied, no external wound would ever become
sufficiently inflamed to cause mortification.

In the summer of 1867, in the City of New York, as I
was riding in an omnibus, while looking out of an open
window, I recieved a heavy blow on my right eye from
the whip of the driver, who had aimed the blow at the
head of a horse which seemed about to interfere with him.
He missed the horse's head, and the full force of the end
of the whip fell directly on the center of my open eye. —
The pain was excessive, and the sight of the eye was en-
tirely taken away — absolute blackness seemed before it.
Passengers in the stage said to me, "You had better get
out and seek relief — for you do not know how that eye
looks." I soon reached my hotel, and on getting into it
sent one servant for a piece of tobacco, and another for
two physicians, with whom I was acquainted. The to-
bacco came first, and just as I had placed it on and se-
cured it with proper bandages, the doctors came in. I
told them what had happened, and that I had just put
on the tobacco. They said tobacco would be ruinous.
As soon as I got off the bandage and they saw the eye,
their countenances seemed to fall (for I could see them
with the left eye, of course). They said, "it will be
very difficult to save that eye." I replied, that if it
could be saved, the tobacco poultice would do it. They
reiterated their objections ; but I told them that I should
try it, and asked them to come back in the morning.
After they left, I restored the tobacco and kept it well
wet by putting my face from time to time in a bowl of
water, so as to retain the moisture steadily. The night
was one of the most painful of my life ; but as it pro-
gressed, the pain seemed slightly to diminish ; }^et even
in the morning I still suffered. About ten o'clock, one

THE TOBACCO EEMEDY. 9)

of the physicians called to see me, and I took off the
bandage. As soon as I did so, I knew that the eye was.
better, for I could see the outlines of the open window
before me. The doctor immediately said, " I never was
so astonished in my life, for your eye instead of being-
swollen and red, as I expected to see it, is shrunk and
less than the other eye, and the lids are white." He
insisted that he ought to be allowed to stimulate it by an
application ; but as I did not desire to have a premature
reaction, I refused. Though the eye was not very pain-
ful, I kept the tobacco on it for the greater part of the
day. On the next day, when he saw it, he said, " You
will not lose your eye, but it will always be disfigured."
On looking at it I saw the pupil seemed to extend across
the iris, and my whole eye looked black. On the fifth
day my eye had its natural appearance, and its sight was
fully restored. I called at the office of my physicians,
and they both said they had never seen such a cure.

Being in the City a few months after this, I called to
see my friends. One of them said to me, "I believe I
saved a boy's eye with your tobacco. He had been hit in
it with a chip, and when I got to him, it was so much
inflamed that I thought he would lose it; but I put on
the tobacco, and next morning I found the inflammation
gone, and the eye soon became well." The other physi-
cian said, "I did a:better thing than that. An elderly
gentleman, somewhat intoxicated, was thrown out of his
carriage in Central Park, and badly bruised. When I
got to his house, I never saw any one so frightened as
was his young wife, with his groaning and cursing. I
warpped up his wounds with tobacco, and he fell asleep,
and was well in the morning !"

Some years ago, on the streets of Asheville, N. C, I met
a prominent lawyer of the town, Col. A. T. Davidson. His
eyes were fiery red and much swollen, and he said, " My

10 THE TOBACCO REMEDY.

eyes are very sore, and I am hunting a doctor — where is
Dr. Williams' office ? " I advised him to try tobacco on
them. After hearing my statement as to its advantages, he
said, " I will try it," and stepped into a store, procured a
piece of tobacco, and went home. On the next day I met
him on the street, and his eyes were well and clear. He told
me that he had applied it as I directed, and kept it on
during the night, and in the morning found his eyes en-
tirely relieved. He has since told me that he had recom-
mended it to several persons for sores, and that they had
all been relieved. At a point in North Carolina, where
red sore eyes were an epidemic, I recommended it to two
young ladies suffering from inflamed eyes, who slept with
tobacco on their eyes, and in the morning found them
well. In several other cases where I knew it to be tried
for inflammations of the eye, it has been used in-
variably with success.

About a dozen years ago, oemg in this City in the
month of March, my throat became extremely sore.
Not apprehending danger, I continued to move about in
the raw weather, my throat getting worse all the while.
Being anxious to go home about sunset, I went in an
omnibus to the boat that runs down the river to Acquia
Creek. After I had gotten on board, I found that my
throat was alarmingly worse. It was, from the swelling,
so hard that I could not swallow, and the air-passage was
so closed that I found it difficult for me to breathe. Re-
membering how suddenly the Hon. Preston S. Brooks
had been choked to death, I regretted much that I had
attempted to travel then. As, however, the boat was
starting, I could not get off in time to return to the City.
I thought tobacco would be my only chance for safety;
and after a search, I obtained some from one of the
colored hands on the boat, got it on my throat, and by
keeping a wet towel on it for the three hours that were
spent on the boat, by the time I reached Acquia Creek

THE TOBACCO REMEDY. 11

the swelling was subdued, and I traveled home on the
railroad without inconvenience.

Some years since I called at the Arlington Hotel to see
a couple of ladies from New York. One of them came
down and stated that her friend had been suffering for
several days with a very sore throat, and was undergoing
medical treatment from a prominent physician of the
City. I walked immediately to the cigar stand, got a
piece of tobacco, gave it to her, and explained how it was
to be used. On the next day I called, and she informed
me that the tobacco had been applied as I directed, and
that her friend was so well that for the first time in many
days she had come down to the breakfast table. Some
years after this occurrence, I saw the lady who had been
ill, and she stated that after the tobacco was applied her
throat became easy, she slept well, and in the morning
found the soreness and swelling entirely gone.

My brother, who is a practising physician in North
Carolina, to whom I had explained the uses of tobacco,
told me that some years ago, when sore throats were an
epidemic in his neighborhood, he had used tobacco in
more than a dozen cases, always with success, while other
physicians in that vicinity had lost some of their patients,
having treated them differently.

My next application of tobacco was for erysipelas of
the head. Some years ago, when in Ealeigh, N. C, I
had several injuries of the head, which were so serious
that an apprehension was felt for some days that I might
not be able to recover. After I had been for perhaps a
week under the treatment of Dr. E. Burke Haywood,
and was improving, I concluded to make a little experi-
ment on one of the swollen wounds. Being near the
outer corner of the eye, its swollen condition interfered
vith my sight, and as I had learned from Chief Justice
Pearson that an application of spirits of turpentine would
soothe a boil, I touched that protuberance with it. In

12 The tobacco remedy.

the morning I found that instead of removing the swell-
ing, it had increased considerably. On Dr. Haywood's
arrival, he expressed surprise, and on being told what I
had done, he said, " You have given yourself erysipelas
in that wound, and if it gets up into the large one above,
it will be very difficult to save your life." His counten-
ance exhibited much anxiety and apprehension. I replied,
"Doctor, I will see that it does not get up into that
wound; come back and see me in four hours." I sent
for tobacco, covered the upper wound with it, and the
lower one also, keeping the bandage carefully wet all the
time. About midday the Doctor returned, and on the
bandage being removed, all swelling had disappeared.
Though I was confined for some weeks to my room, I
had no swelling of the wounds afterwards.

My next attack of erysipelas was a much more formid-
able one. In the month of May, 1880, I tried to remove
a frontal neuralgia, of which I will perhaps speak here-
after. Having suffered from it for a long time, and tried
many remedies with no advantage, I concluded to apply
an old-fashioned blister of flies. I covered my forehead
and temples with it, and after it had been on a few hours,
feeling lonesome in my room, I put on a soft hat and
walked about the streets in the warm sunshine. After
the blister plaster had been on six or seven hours, I re-
moved it, and was surprised to observe that it discharged
but little, and had an unusually red appearance. I kept
cabbage leaves on it during the night, but on the next
day it still had a reddish appearance, was somewhat
swollen, and discharged less than blisters usually did.
About 5 o'clock, I went down to Willard's Hotel for din-
ner, and on being met by a friend to whom I spoke, he
seemed surprised, and said, "I did not know you till
you spoke; what is the matter with you?" I stated what
I had been doing, went into the dining-room and took
dinner, as usual. On coming out, I met an old friend,

THE TOBACCO REMEDY. 13

Dr. Hambleton, and spoke to him. He, with a look of
astonishment, said to me, "I did not know you till you
spoke; what is the matter with you?" I answered that
I had had a blister on my forehead. "Yes," said he,
"and it has given you erysipelas." I was at once alarmed;
and on going to a looking-glass, was amazed at my appear-
ance. My face looked like a large pumpkin. Though
my nose is a prominent one, it could not be distinguished,
as the cheeks were so swollen as to be even with it; while
only the central portions of my eyes could be seen, owing
to the swelling around them. Eealizing the danger, I
secured a piece of tobacco at the cigar stand, and went
into Milburn's drug store to get some cloth for bandages.
On calling for it, the proprietor said with astonishment,
"What is the matter? I did not know you till you
spoke." I stated it to him, and he answered, "You had
better see a doctor; you do not know how you look."
After reaching my room, as soon as I could wet the
tobacco, I placed it oyer my forehead, temples, eyes,
cheeks, and nose, barely leaving breathing space for the
nostrils. Covering it as usual, with four thicknesses of
cotton cloth, and wrapping a bandage over all, I would
put my face into a bowl of water every ten or fifteen
minutes, so as to keep the bandage thoroughly wet.
After about four hours had elapsed, I raised the bandage,
and was gratified to see that the outlines of my nose were
visible, the eyes enlarged, and my cheeks much less full.
I continued the application, however, till morning, and
had the satisfaction of seeing that I was relieved. Several
gentlemen who had seen me the evening before came in
and expressed surprise at my rapid recovery. I remem-
ber that Dr. Hambleton said, "ISTo doctor could have
cured you in three weeks."

I have heard of a number of cases where erysipelas has
boen cured by persons whose attention I had called to
the use of tobacco. I also, last Summer, when in JSTew

14 THE TOBACCO REMEDY.

York, by applying large poultices of tobacco to my hip,
cured myself of a terribly painful attack of sciatica,
which had been greatly aggravated by the treatment of
two physicians.

One evening, in "Washington, I found two of my friends
sitting with their boots off. They were both suffering
from bunions of long standing. I advised the use of
tobacco, and they immediately sent for it and applied it.
Application for a single night made a permanent cure, as
they have assured me, though two or three years have
elapsed. About two years ago one of the North Carolina
members of Congress, on my suggestion, relieved himself
in the same manner, and says there has been no return
of the soreness.

Corns on the toes can be cured in like manner. A Sena-
tor told me within a few weeks, that he believed he had
saved his life last year by applying tobacco as I had pre-
viously advised him as to its use. He stated that from
imprudence in diet and over-exertion, he had brought on
a terrible attack. The pain on the lower part of his side
and back was almost intolerable. After being treated by
two physicians for two days and nights, with no advan-
tage, the pain so increased that it seemed impossible for
him to live under it. Eemembering what I had told him
as to tobacco, he applied a quantity of it wet to his side
and back, and in a half hour the pain ceased, his system
was relaxed, and he immediately recovered.

There is another class of cases that ought to be referred
to ; but as my paper is getting rather too long, I will
reserve them to a future occasion. I must, however,
consider for a moment such objections as have been pre-
sented to me. A lady said she put tobacco on her child's
sore throat ; that it went to sleep, but when it woke in
the morning, though its throat was well, it was very
much nauseated. Had this tobacco, however, been re-

THE TOBACCO REMEDY. 15

moved after being on two or three hours, there would not
have been nausea.

A physician told me that he had seen a child whose
stomach and sides had been covered with tobacco, and it
was suffering greatly from nausea. This, too, was an in-
stance of an over-dose of a remedy. The tobacco, however,
can easily be removed when symptoms of nausea are per-
ceived, but when a doctor has got an over-dose into the
stomach, it cannot readily be removed.

When the wet tobacco is applied, the first effect is
stimulating. In twenty or thirty minutes, however, the
sedative effect is perceived. When it is placed on the
eye-lids, as some of the juice gets into the eye, there is
usually an itching sensation and a little pain ; but in a
few minutes this passes off, and there is no more feeling
than if a wet cloth were applied. Most persons sleep
under the influence, but some do not. Tobacco, though
the most powerful sedative to the blood circulation, is a
nerve tonic. While most persons sleep under the influ-
ence of morphine, some do not. Tobacco, like morphine,
keeps me awake, though they both diminish pain. If
the tobacco be applied only to the affected parts, no
nausea will be felt until the inflammation has been sub-
dued. When a slight nausea begins to be perceived, it
may be assumed that the inflammation has been subdued;
and in a few minutes after the bandage has been removed,
the nausea ceases to be felt. Generally after about two
hours' application, the sedative effect is attained ; but in
obstinate cases a much longer time may be required.

Something ought to be stated as to the kind of tobacco
to be used. Formerly, because the manufactured tobacco
was more readily found, I generally used that, as after a
piece had been kept in water for twenty or thirty minutes,
it would become soft enough to allow the leaves to be
separated. About a year ago, however, I made a dis-
covery which it is important should be known, not only to

16 THE TOBACCO REMEDY.

invalids, but also to tobacco chewers. I obtained at a
cigar store a piece of manufactured tobacco, but after
applying it I found that instead of being a sedative, the
effect was irritating, even after it had been kept on the
skin for several hours. I was satisfied that the tobacco,
which was of the kind sold for the highest price, must
have something irritating mixed with it. Fortunately that
very evening I found Mr. Cooper, a revenue collector of
North Carolina, who for many years had been a manufac-
turer of tobacco. He informed me that it was a practice
to flavor the highest priced kinds of tobacco with certain
drugs. I think he mentioned Tonqua bean, Wintergreen,
and some other things. He told me that he knew these
drugs were poisonous, because of what occurred at a
tobacco factory about two miles distant from his own.
One of the negro men employed in that factory, having
a pain in his stomach, took some spirits out of a jug
which contained whiskey that had been medicated to
flavor the tobacco with. Though the man only drank a
wine-glassful of the spirits, it killed him in half an hour.
It may therefore be worth while for tobacco chewers to
consider whether it is safe to continue the use of such
tobacco, instead of the purer article formerly in use.

Persons who apply tobacco as a poultice I would advise
to use the leaf tobacco, which has not been subjected to
medication with poisonous ingredients.

I trust that persons who make trials of tobacco in the
manner above suggested, will make known the result in
short notes in the newspapers, so as to render general the
knowledge of its advantages.

Having already made this paper perhaps too long for
the general reader, I will postpone the consideration of
another class of cases that it may be well to refer to.

T. L. Clingman.

Washi^gtost, D. C, April 22, 1884.

THE TOBACCO REMEDY. 17

The publication of this article attracted so much at-
tention that many persons, after using the tobacco as
suggested, made statements for publication. If I were
to copy them at length, they would be sufficient to fill a
large volume. I am, therefore, obliged merely to make
concise references as to some of them that come from
gentlemen of prominence :

Gen. A. M. Scoles, of the House of Representatives,
and recently elected Governor of North Carolina, states
in the June number of the " Health and Home," that at
my suggestion he cured a severe bunion, and has " since
used it for other local inflammations, with equal success."

Col. A. T. Davidson, of Asheville, a prominent lawyer,
states in the same issue that he in a single night, at my
suggestion, cured a violent inflammation of the eyes by a
tobacco application, and also since used it with success
for other inflamed eyes, and has seen it used success-
fully to cure inflammatory rheumatism.

Mr. J. E. Warden, of Penacook, N". H., says he was,
in a single night, relieved of all soreness and swelling
from a severe dog bite, which had greatly torn his flesh.

The July number of the same paper has the fol-
lowing from the Hon. W. H. Hatch, Congressman from
Missouri :

House of Representatives, U. S.,
Washington, D. C, July 3, 1884.

Gen. T. L. Clingman :

"Dear Sir. — The following is an extract from a letter
received by me from Dr. W. S. D. Johnson, of La Belle,
Lewis County, Missouri, an experienced and eminent
physician, and a large and successful stock raiser and
farmer :

" The printed paper on the use of tobacco, in the
treatment of local inflammations, by Gen. T. L. Cling-
man, of North Carolina, sent by you to me on the 12th

18 THE TOBACCO KEMEDY.

of May last, was duly received. I have carefully read it
twice, and from my observations of its effects on local
inflammation, I corroborate the entire article, and I go
further than he, for I do know that tobacco will destroy
parasites, whether they are internal or external."

Dr. Johnson then states at some length that he in-
variably cured his hogs, when they had cholera, by giving
them an infusion of tobacco in buttermilk.

In the same paper I stated that I had used it success-
fully to remove parasites in case of a tetter of long stand-
ing, and that I believed it would, if applied internally,
cure the Asiatic cholera.

Col. W. H. Burgwyne, of Henderson, N. C, states
that he, after seeing my article, cured a very painful boil
of long standing, which all other applications failed to
reach.

Dr. Louis S. Bobbins, of New York, says he cured, by
the application of tobacco, in a single night, a severe cut
on his foot, so that next day he walked with his boot
on as usual.

Senator Z. B. Vance, of North Carolina, says that last
October he received, while travelling on the railroad, a
severe contusion on the front of his leg, which gave him
extreme pain for two hours, until he reached Weldon,
where he stopped, applied a tobacco leaf, and on the next
morning was freed from all pain and swelling. He states
that a similar injury last spring, which was not near so
severe, gave him trouble for months, though he applied
such remedies as are usually furnished from drug stores.

In the August number of the " Health and Home,"
Col. W. W. Jackson states :

" In a number of instances I have witnessed its value
as an application to fresh wounds, whether punctured
or incised, and in one instance it proved an almost im-
mediate relief in a case of tetanus arising from a gunshot
wound in the foot of a soldier, even after the nerves had

THE TOBACCO REMEDY. 19

become so involved that the case was pronounced hope-
less. It was my constant practice to carry tobacco in
my pocket while a boy and constantly exposed to danger
by the bite of the deadly niassassauga, which abounded
on the prairies at an early day. On two occasions I was
bitten, each time in the month of August (the most dan-
gerous season of the year), and in both was relieved by
the application of tobacco in the manner recommended
by G-en. Clingman. It is successfully employed in the
form of a salve with simple cerate, in carbuncle, relieving
the pain and causing a separation between the healthy
and diseased tissues with a facility that renders its use
phenomenally successful. It may also be successfully
employed in ichorous and indolent sores and ulcers, but
in all cases should be handled understandingly, as in
most cases — in an external form even — its effects are at-
tended with nausea and nervous prostration, sometimes
resulting in spasms. On one occasion I witnessed a fatal
result from a drench administered to a horse after it had
been successfully applied (to relieve a case of colic)
across the loins.

"Its best form as a remedy for disease is in the natural
leaf and free from the objectionable qualities given to it
through the ordinary process of manufacture."

Kespectfully,

W. W. Jackson.

THE EVIDENCE KEEPS KOLLWG IJST.

Clarksburg, Mo., July 21, 1884.
Editor oe "Health and Home:"

(( The July number of 'Health and Home' is at hand.
Seeing the tobacco articles calls to my mind the use I
have made of it in the treatment of painful inflamma-
tions. For piles, where tumors appear, it is especially

20 THE TOBACCO EEMEDY.

useful. Wet a leaf in warm water, press it up between
the nates to the tumor, go to bed and remain quiet over
night, or for three or four hours, and all pain and un-
easiness is gone ; also in caked breast of women; where
the woman has taken cold and has ague or weed of breast,
wet a large leaf of tobacco in hot water and envelop the
entire breast in it for a few hours ; the pain and hard-
ness will be relieved, and the milk can be drawn out with
a breast-pump; or what is better, a quinine jar dipped in
hot water to exclude the air, and applied while warm, so
as to cause suction, will cause the milk to flow in a
stream. Of course the breast must be thoroughly
washed before the child is permitted to nurse. For the
bites and stings of insects there is no better application.
It relieves at once. A strong solution will kill the itch-
bug that causes scabies, or seven-years' itch ; for para-
sites on all cattle or stock it is the remedy that is certain,
safe, and cheap." W. J. Atkxktsox, M. D., V. D.

Dr. E. Parsons, in the same issue, under the date of
Savannah, G-a., July 23, 1884, states that by swallowing,
in small quantities at a time, tobacco juice, he was cured
of a chronic irritation of the stomach, which had defied all
the remedies prescribed by physicians. The September
issue of the " Health and Home," contains the following :

WILL TOBACCO CUKE CHOLERA ?

" A letter from General Clingman, given below, with a
clipping from the Asheville (N. C.) ' Citizen/ seems to
answer this question in the affirmative. It is to be hoped,
however, that we will never have occasion to use it in
this country. Our transatlantic friends, however, should
not lose a moment in applying it, for when intelligently
used it cannot possibly do harm. It is now becoming
well known that tobacco is a most powerful insecticide,
and is capable of destroying many forms of parasitic
disease germs, notably those found in hog cholera, snake

THE TOBACCO BEMEDY. 21

bites, and many other germs of an infectious character.
Cures are reported to us almost daily, of cases that had
been treated in the usual way for years. The health de-
partments of Toulon, Marseilles, and other stricken
points, will find, in the information we furnished them
some two months ago, a powerful agent that is both in-
expensive and harmless, and one that will certainly aid
in diminishing the mortality from that dreadful scourge."

Asheville, N". C, Sept. 6, 1884.

"Dear Sir. -I should have written to you more fre-
quently but that I know how much your time is oc-
cupied. As the papers here published in full my arti-
cle on the tobacco remedy, it has been brought into
general use in this region for every class of cases men-
tioned by me, and some others, which for reasons stated
to you, I did not mention. I wish, however, again to
call your attention to one class of cases formerly men-
tioned, viz : the curative property of tobacco for hog
cholera. It has in every instance, when tried in this
region, proved a certain cure. I send you an article
from the Asheville ' Citizen' of to-day's issue as a
specimen.

'" I still think, for reasons formerly given, that tobacco
will prove a cure for that terrible disease, Asiatic cholera,
which is now creating such alarm in Europe. I trust
that you will continue your efforts, by sending out
printed slips or otherwise, to bring it to notice in
Europe. Respectfully yours,

T. L. Clikgma^."

To Pkof. Hale :

THE CLINGMAN TOBACCO CITEE.

" Almost daily we hear of the remarkable curative prop-
erties of tobacco, used according to the General Cling-
man formula. Hon. F. M. Davis, of Haywood, writes

22 THE TOBACCO EEMEDY.

the Waynesville (N. C.) i News ' recently that his hogs
were all taken with cholera, and several had died ; he
saw in the i Citizen ' the statement of General Cling-
man, relating the curative effects of tobacco. He tried
the remedy, giving it in buttermilk, and it cured every
one of the hogs. Dr. Davis is greatly in favor of the
remedy. We have some more valuable information con-
cerning this remedy, which we will give to our readers
soon."

As evidence of the impression which the subject has
made on the public mind, the following letter is re-pub-
lished as it appeared in the " Daily Advance," printed in
Asheville, September 12.

GEN. CLINGMAN'S TOBACCO REMEDY.

We present the following letter to Gen. Clingman from
Dr. W. H. Hale. Editor of the " Health and Home,"
a paper having a sworn circulation of one hundred and
fifty thousand subscribers, in order that our readers may
see how much good an article so largely produced in this
region is doing for humanity.

" Health and Home, )
Washington, D. C, Sept. 8, 1884. j

Gen. T. L. Clingman :

' i Dear Sir : — Your letter ana clippings to hand
just as we were making ready to go to press with the
September No., which will be issued on the 15th inst.
Your note with the clippings will appear in that issue. I
will mail you a dozen copies as soon as issued. I am not
a flatterer, as you know, but I must confess that I have
never known an article that got the wide spread circula-
tion, or one that has accomplished so much good, as has
your paper on 'The Tobacco Remedy.' Of the issue
that contained it, we printed over thirty thousand copies
more than our subscription list, and to-day we have not

THE TOBACCO REMEDY. 23

quite four thousand copies on hand. To my own knowl-
edge, it has been republished in full, by over three
hundred of the principal newspapers of the country, and
more than fifteen hundred country weeklies have published
a synopsis of it, and even at this late day, (five months
after the publication), I find it running through the
' patent outsides.' This latter is a great honor, and one
that is seldom conferred on an American author, as the
compilers of those sheets usually steal their matter from
English magazines, and when they do condescend to
reproduce the work of an American writer, it certainly
must possess extraordinary merit. Judging from the
exchanges and marked papers that have come to this
office, containing your article, we cannot estimate that it
has had a less circulation than ten million copies."

Your obedient servant,

W. H. Hale.
In my first article as above published I stated that
there were other classes of cases, that I would not then
refer to, because so doing would make my letter too long.
Persons however, who read it, acting on their own judg-
ment, made the applications of tobacco in a variety of
these cases and invariably with advantage. A number
of these facts were referred to in my letter of October 4,
1884, published in the issue of the "Health and Home"
for that month. I give that letter entire so as to pre-
sent the additional evidences of the value of the remedy.

ANOTHER ASTOUNDING STATEMENT.

GEN. CLINGMAN, ON THE CURATIVE VIRTUES OF TOBACCO.

Dr. W. H. Hale :

Dear Sir : I am greatly obliged to you for the number
of the last issue of your interesting and valuable journal.
It would astonish you to know what progress my Tobacco
Remedy is making in this region, where the papers have

24 THE TOBACCO EEMEDY.

published my original article. Out of hundreds of trials
of tobacco I have not heard of a single case in which it
failed to give relief. It not only seems to cure all cases
of bruises, sprains, wounds, bunions, corns, sore throats,
erysipelas of the head or face, sore eyes, etc., but the
suddenness of the cures is most remarkable.

A man in Haywood had his arm cut to the bone by a
circular saw. He being an acquaintance of Col A. T.
Davidson, that gentleman, who had been relieved by
tobacco, went to see him. The physician who had been
sent for arrived at the same time. The sufferer de-
cided to try first the tobacco application, and Col. Davidson
says that on the next day he saw the arm ; the soreness
had left it, the swelling which had extended over the
entire arm was gone, and the skin had a very white ap-
pearance. Another man, whose eye had been injured by
a splinter and became so much inflamed that he could
not see from it, had tobacco applied for a single night
and the next day the eye was well.

Major Wallace Kollins, of Madison Co., who is a large
tobacco raiser, and who was relieved two years ago, at my
suggestion, of an old bunion, told me recently that a man
in his employ had very sore eyes, and that they became
so much inflamed that he lost his sight entirely. Major
Kollins placed some wet tobacco leaves on his eyes, and
in the morning he could see. A similar application the
next night cured his eyes completely.

Mr. James M. Blair, who formerly owned the hotel at
which I am staying (the Eagle Hotel), had a foot so
much inflamed and swollen that he was confined to his
bed for more than a month. The pain was so severe that
he was unable to sleep. Dr. Howerton, at my suggestion,
advised him to try tobacco, and its application for a single
night removed the soreness and swelling so that he could
rest on it the next day.

Cases of long standing are promptly cured. A gentle-

THE TOBACCO REMEDY. 25

man here told me that owing to his having been kicked
on the knee by a horse, he had for a year past been obliged
to keep a gnm elastic band on it and use a crutch in
walking. He applied the tobacco to the knee for a single
night, and on the next day he dispensed with the gum
elastic bandage, and was able to walk the streets without
using a crutch.

Even a more remarkable case occurred here. In one
of my former publications, I stated that such a disease
as consumption would be beyond the reach of tobacco,
but I am not sure but that even it may be alleviated.

A gentleman who came here for the benefit of his
health, and who stopped at the Swannanoa Hotel, just
opposite me, was suffering from a severe attack of tuber-
cular laryngitis. Besides the tubercles in his throat,
there were large swellings on the outside. Though under-
going treatment from two physicians, he became so much
worse that he could not even swallow milk, and for some
days seemed about to die of starvation. At the suggestion
of Col. Caperton, a guest of the hotel who had read in a
Oalfornia newspaper a copy of my original article, his
wife was induced to make an application of tobacco to
his throat at night. On the next morning he was so
much better that he was able to make a breakfast on beef-
steak and potatoes. After a few days his throat became
worse and there seemed danger that he might be suffocated
by the phlegm and swelling, and another application of
tobacco relieved him. He now moves about the city,
and one of his physicians, who told me a week or more
ago that he thought there was no hope of his recovery,
now expresses the opinion that he may get well.

Dr. Cain, one of our most eminent physicians, told me
that a lady patient of his had, some years ago, been af-
flicted with a bone-felon on her finger. Lately it came
on again, and the pain .was so severe that her whole arm
and shoulder suffered from it. He advised her to wrap

26 THE TOBACCO REMEDY.

the finger with tobacco, and a single night's application
removed all the pain and soreness, and the finger since
then (some weeks have passed) appears to be entirely
well.

As to certain other cases, I give yon the statement of
Dr. John H. Williams, a prominent physician, who has
a large practice here :

General Clingman :

"Dear Sir : In answer to your inquiry, I am glad to
be able to state that I have, since reading your article on
the medicinal use of tobacco, given it a very thorough
trial in several instances. To be as brief as possible, I
have used it in three cases of orchitis, with immediate
benefit and speedy cure. In one case of irritable ovary,
wrth all the nervous and hysterical phenomena that ac-
company it, with very marked benefit. In one case of
swollen breast, with enlarged and painful glands under
the arm, with intense shooting pains of a neuralgic char-
acter, with speedy relief ; and also in my own case when
I was kicked on the knee by a horse, producing a very
painful inflammation, so much so as to entirely prevent
the use of the limb. I applied a large, warm, tobacco
poultice on retiring, with the result that the pain was
entirely removed by morning, and a second application
removed the swelling, leaving the limb in its normal
condition.

I think it is peculiarly useful in all pains of a neuralgic
character, and in removing pain and swelling of an in-
flammatory nature.

Very truly yours,

John Hey Williams, A. M., M.D."

Asheville, N. C, Oct. 2, 1884.

Dr. Cain further says that he was called to see a negro
woman whose knee had been sprained on the day pre-
vious. He found it swollen to double its natural size

THE TOBACCO REMEDY. 2?

and very painful. He directed tobacco to be applied,
and on the next day he found the swelling and soreness
entirely gone, and the woman was walking about.

What a pity it is that the good Queen Victoria, who
suffered so long from a sprained knee, had not known
the virtues of the tobacco poultice, so that she would
have been relieved in a day. Even if she still suffers,
she may be relieved, as was the gentleman who suffered
a year from the kick of the horse on his knee.

Besides these cases, many persons have been relieved
who suffered from that disease with which the Philistines
were so sorely afflicted while they had the ark of the
Israelites in their possession.

A gentleman who had for a long period served as a
judge in Virginia told me that he had for years been a
great sufferer from that disease, and to an extent that he
was often unable to sleep. After reading my original
article in your paper, he applied the tobacco for a single
night and was entirely relieved. When I last saw him,
more than two months after the application, he continued
to be well, and thought himself entirely cured.

One of my legal friends, Mr. Emory H. Merrimon, at
my suggestion, cured a swollen wrist in a single night,
and then by a single application removed a corn of long
standing. Yesterday I saw him walking about the streets
with a bandage of tobacco on his throat. In answer to
my inquiry, he said his throat had been sore for some
days, and that he had put a strip of tobacco on it. He
stated that his throat had been so much swollen and was
so sore that for forty- eight hours he could not swallow,
and did not, therefore, taste food ; and yet, that a single
night's application of the tobacco had relieved him
entirely.

Should tobacco cravats become fashionable it is prob-
able that scarlet fever, choking quinsy, diphtheria, and
other forms of sore throat will abandon the country.

28 THE TOBACCO REMEDY.

Last week Mr. J. S. Carter, a respectable citizen of
the northern part of this county, about fifty years of age,
met me on the street and gave me a statement of his case.
Eor more than two years he had been a sufferer from
dropsy, which extended itself to his whole system.
Though his legs showed the greatest swelling, yet his
head, neck and shoulders, and his whole body, were also
much swollen. He said, "I was so rotten all oyer, that
when I pushed my linger against the flesh, it made a
hole in it."

Mr. Arsemus J. Carter, the lawyer of this city, who is
his relative, confirms his statement, and says that about
six months ago he saw him at home in bed, and that
besides his dropsical swelling, his face was as yellow as a
pumpkin, or that of a man with a bad case of jaundice.
He had been practiced on by two prominent physicians,
but it was supposed that he could not recover.

Mr. Carter, the invalid, stated to me about six weeks
ago, his mother, a lady 85 years of age, well known to
me personally, told him that she had lately been reading
one of General Clingman's articles on tobacco cures, and
advised him to try it. He therefore wrapped his thighs
with wet tobacco leaves, and found, on the next morning,
that the swelling had been much reduced. He then
applied it to his legs below the knees, and found still
greater relief, and in a few days all the symptoms of his
dropsy disappeared. He said, "I was the poorest man
you ever saw, seeming to be only skin and bone, but
gradually recovered my strength." When I saw him he
had traveled about twenty miles from his home, and was
going nearly forty miles farther to see relatives in Ruther-
ford county. He also said that his sight had been almost
gone, but that, after putting tobacco on his eyes, he could
read very well. There was a bad sore in one of his nos-
trils, but a plug of wet tobacco pressed into it had cured
it. After he was well of his dropsy, he also cured him-

THE TOBACCO REMEDY. 29

self of haemorrhoids by applying tobacco, though he
had previously been much of a sufferer.

These three last cases were such as many persons have
made since the publication of my first article, but the
curing of dropsy is a new and remarkable thing. About
a year ago I urged an old friend in Washington, Attorney
Crawford, who was puffed up with dropsy, to try it ; but
he, under the advice of his physicians, declined, and soon
after died.

I regard the cure of dropsy as due not merely to the
sedative effects of tobacco on the circulation of the blood,
but mainly to the fact that it is a most powerful nerve
tonic. It was this quality which I think by stimulating
the nerves greatly, enabled his system to throw off the
liquids which puffed him up over his entire body. I have
found it difficult to induce physicians to admit this, but
it is nevertheless true.

I ought to say that in all cases where tobacco has been
given hogs for cholera (generally in buttermilk), as far
as I have been informed, it has cured them. I trust that
you will succeed in bringing it into notice in Europe, so
that it may be tried for Asiatic cholera. Even if not a
remedy for that, however, yet it will relieve the major
part of the causes of human suffering.

I trust you and other liberal-miuded editors will be
able, by repeated publications, to make the virtues of the
" Tobacco Bemedy" universally known.
Eespectfully yours,

T. L. Cli^gmak.

Asheville, N". 0., Oct. 4, 1884.

After the publication of these articles, statements ap-
peared in additional quantities, showing that tobacco in-
variably cured when applied. I forbear to repeat them,
but will merely give one statement, that of Col. J. M.
Gudger, who was formerly solicitor of the western
Judicial District of North Carolina :

30 THE TOBACCO REMEDY.

CLINGMAN'S TOBACCO REMEDY.

ASHEYIELE (N. C.) DALLY ADVANCE.

" Please give space in your columns to this statement
with reference to Gen. Clingman's Tobacco Remedy :

I had seen many notices of its value without giving
much attention to it. Six gentlemen were standing in a
group on the street when the subject was mentioned, and
I found that three out of six had been benefited by its
application. One had an inflamed eye, and after two
hours' application of tobacco, found himself entirely re-
lieved. One had a bruised hand, could neither sleep nor
rest, and the first night was relieved. One had a sprained
ankle, and from the application of tobacco found relief.
These statements attracted my attention, and two weeks
ago I was hunting on Toe River, in Yancy County, and
found a child fifteen miles away from any physician, and
sick with sore throat. I at once suggested Clingman's
Tobacco Remedy. I gave its mother some tobacco, which
she applied to its throat. This was in the morning. On
my return in the evening I found the child much better.
I have heard more than twenty persons, since Clingman's
publication, say they had been benefited by this simple
remedy. I had my hand crushed badly by a falling
window sash, and found relief by its application.

I have thought proper to ask space for this statement,
in the hope that others may see it and by its amplication
find relief . Yours truly, J. M. Gudger."

Col. R. W. Pulliam, an old merchant of Asheville, had
long suffered from gout in the hand, so painful that he
said he could not bear the weight of a feather on it.
Everything else tried failed to give any relief, but on his
applying the wet tobacco for only three hours, he was
completely cured. Mr. Erwin Sluder, a banker in Ashe-
ville, after long suffering from rheumatism in the

THE TOBACCO EEMEDY. 31

shoulders and arms, tried the tobacco and was entirely
relieved.

Prof. W. C. Kerr, the agricultural surveyor of North
Carolina, and more recently of the Coast Survey of the
United States, told me in Washington, that on the day
previous to his arrival, he saw on the cars two gentlemen
who stated to him that they had recently cured them-
selves of gout by tobacco applications.

I now present a paper published in the December issue
of the " Health and Home," which is more comprehensive
in its bearings than the previous letters :

THE TOBACCO EEMEDY.

Asheville, N. C, Nov. 26, 1884.

Before referring to many additional cases of tobacco
cures it seems necessary that I should make an exi3lana-
tory statement. Though, as you formerly stated, many
million copies of my letter of May last were published
with additional statements for each of your monthly
numbers since issued, you would be surprised to know
how many letters of inquiry are directed to me from dif-
ferent parts of the United States.

I am asked what kind of tobacco ought to be used,
and how it is to be applied, and for what cases of injury
or disease. "With a view of meeting such inquiries and
affording the information necessary to enable all persons
properly to use this great remedy, I will try to present a
condensed statement.

I formerly used the ordinary manufactured tobacco in
such cakes as it could be had at the cigar stands in the
hotels. A cake of this thrown into a bowl of cold water
in an hour or less would become soft and spongy, and
could be separated so that the leaves could be obtained,
but for reasons heretofore published in my original arti-
cle, I do not advise that form for use. About three years

32 THE TOBACCO EEMEDY.

ago I ascertained by some experiments that of late the
tobacco manufacturers mix with their tobacco for the
purpose of improving its flavor certain poisonous drugs,
such as Tonqua bean, wintergreen, and some other things.
Though such tobacco may serve a beneficial purpose, yet
I would prefer to use the leaf before it has been manu-
factured. Again, the darker leaves being stronger, are
better than the light yellow leaves. Also leaves of the
tobacco cut last year are better than those freshly cut in
this season, as tobacco seems to gather strength with age.

A bunch of these leaves thrown into a bowl of cold
water, will become moist and soft, so that the large stem
in the centre may be taken out. Hot water will answer
the purpose sooner than cold, but either will do.

When this has been done, not less than two thicknesses
of the leaf should be placed directly on the part to be
relieved. As, however, the heat of the skin tends to dry
the tobacco in a few minutes, a wet bandage must be
laid over it. About four thicknesses of common white
cotton cloth will be sufficient, but this should be well
soaked in the water before it is put on, then a bandage
of the same cloth may be tied over it, and water from
time to time should be applied by pressing a wet rag on
it so as to keep the tobacco moist.

Tobacco in this manner may be applied directly on a
cut or a wound, or any raw place, without injury. The
first effect of the tobacco, however, is stimulating or
slightly irritating ; but this after a few minutes ceases,
and the sedative effect soon comes on. When, for
example, the tobacco is placed on the eye, as a little of
the juice gets in between the eyelids, some smarting or
itching is felt, but after a few minutes this ceases, and
no more effect is produced on the feelings than if a wet
cloth were kept over the eye.

Within less than an hour, the sedative effect is per-
ceived, and within two hours, usually all external inflam-

THE TOBACCO REMEDY. 33

mations are reduced. Obstinate cases, of course, require
longer applications.

Most persons sleep under the influence of tobacco, but
some do not, just as morphine causes some persons to
sleep while others are wakeful. When I have tobacco on
it is impossible for me to sleep ; but instead, unusual
mental activity is produced, which continues throughout
the next day following a night's application.

As long as there is inflammation about the part, no
nausea will be felt. As soon, however, as nausea is per-
ceived, the poultice may be removed, as the sedative
effect has been produced. After the removal of the band-
age the nausea passes away in a short time.

When one wishes to cure a bunion or a corn, after the
tobacco has been applied as above directed, it is easy to
get the sock over it, and by moistening the sock from
time to time, a cure is usually effected in a single night.

I will now proceed to refer to such cases as have been
cured by the use of tobacco. In making this statement,
I shall only mention cases that I have observed myself,
or such as have been stated by persons of good character
and standing. If I were to give their statements at
length, a volume would be required to contain them. I,
therefore, only give undoubted facts.

To begin with the head, I may say that all cases of
erysipelas, whether on the head or face, or any other
part of the body, are cured. In some cases where the
head was swollen to almost double its usual size, and the
patient was supposed by the attending physician about to
die, an application of tobacco effected a complete cure.

Again, all cases of sore eyes, whether caused by injury
or of disease, and whether old cases or fresh ones, have
been cured. In some cases where there was total blind-
ness, a cure was at once effected, and the sight restored
perfectly.

In the third place, all wounds, whether cuts, bruises,

34 THE TOBACCO REMEDY.

or contusions, have been easily cured. Sprains of the
knee or ankle joints, where they were swelled to double
the natural size, have been completely cured by a single
night's application. Old cases, where the patient had
suffered for months and years, have been cured.

In all cases where the remedy was tried, bunions and
corns on the feet have been cured, even where in some
cases they were said to be forty years old.

All cases of sore throat are cured, whether caused by
diphtheria, croup, scarlet fever, or quinsy. In more than
one instance the patient was cured when seemingly at
the point of death, and the case pronounced hopeless by
the attending physicians.

All bone-felons have been cured, usually by a single
night's application of the tobacco.

I have been informed of a number of cases in which
the tobacco was applied as a remedy for haemorrhoids,
and in every instance a single night's application is rep-
resented to have effected a cure. If tobacco should be
applied to a wound, neither mortification nor lockjaw
would ever supervene. In one case of lockjaw, where the
surgeon had pronounced the case hopeless, according to
the published statement of a gentleman, a cure was
effected by the application of a tobacco poultice to the
stomach.

For cholera morbus, an application of tobacco to the
stomach gives relief. A Senator told me that when suffer-
ing from constipation most terribly, he had two physicians
with him for two days and nights, with no advantage
from their remedies, and when the pain became so
intolerable that he felt that he would not get through
the night, remembering what I had told him about
tobacco, he caused it to be applied to his side and back,
and in half an hour he was relieved and immediately
recovered.

Again, a great many cases of neuralgia, whether the

THE TOBACCO EEMEDT. 35

case was accompanied with inflammation or not, have
been cured by tobacco. In one case the patient said his
eye was so much inflamed that it seemed about to burst,
and the application effected a complete cure.

Physicians here tell me all cases of orchitis are cured
by tobacco, and usually in one night.

All kinds of sores on the feet can be immediately cured.
Mr. Justice, the county surveyor here, after suffering for
eight years with a very sore foot, was completely curecT
by a single night's application. In like manner Mr. Blair,
who had lain in bed for many weeks with a foot so pain-
ful and swollen that he could bear no cover on it, was
immediately relieved. Many cases similar to these have
been mentioned to me.

I will now refer to other classes of cases which are
supposed to be internal or general to the system. Col.
J. H. Rumbough, the proprietor of the large establish-
ment at the Warm Springs, about eight years ago had,
from overheat, a partial sunstroke. From that day, for
three or four years, he every day suffered with a dull
headache, which at times was very painful. Last week,
when at this place, he told me that four years ago, when
we met in Washington City, I advised him to put a wet
tobacco poultice on the back of his head, explaining,
particularly, how it should be used ; that he tried it on
the night following, and on the next day found that the
pain was gone, and that, though four years have been
passed, there has been no return of the pain.

Many cases of rheumatism have also been cured in this
vicinity, some very acute cases, while others were of long
standing. Also cases of gout, and rheumatic gout, have
been invariably relieved, and with no evil effect on other
parts of the system. It has been often stated, that when
gout was relieved by wet cloths, or some other soothing
applications, it has been transferred to some other part
of the system, and in some instances attacked the stom-

36 THE TOBACCO KEMEDY.

ach or heart with fatal results. But when it has been
relieved by a tobacco application, in no instance, that I
have heard of, has there been any subsequent evil result.
This I attribute to the penetrative power of the tobacco.
While it drives away the inflammation at the place of its
application, it is a most powerful nerve stimulant, and
its influence is extended over the whole system. When
applied to the head, or any part of the body, within two
hours its effect will be perceived by a relaxing influence
on the lower intestines and urinary organs. Morphine,
in small doses with many persons, stimulates the nerves
but causes constipation, while tobacco, though it is even
a greater stimulant to the nerves, is an aperient to the
intestinal canal and urinary organs. I have found, that
when I had a large plaster of tobacco on my hip and loin
to relieve sciatica, a sensation was excited in old wounds
and sores about the feet and legs, as well as the influence
felt on the intestines. It ought to be stated, that in two
attacks of sciatica which I have experienced, tobacco
cured me after the remedies of the doctors failed to
help me.

I formerly stated to you, that Mr. J. S. Carter, of this
county, who had for two years suffered from dropsy, from
head to foot, and who was regarded by his physicians as
beyond recovery, at the suggestion of his mother, who
had read my first article on the tobacco cure, applied it
to his legs, and in a few nights was completely cured and
has had no return. Though three months have since
passed, he has had no return of the dropsy.

A stout gentleman in this county told me, that he had
a violent attack of pleurisy, which gave him a severe
pain in his side, which was also considerably swollen. He
decided to apply tobacco to his side, and was so entirely
cured, that on the second day thereafter he came into
town and stated his experience to me.

I now give you a published statement of Dr. J. S. T,

THE TOBACCO EEMEDY. 37

Baird, a physician of high standing and great experience
in this vicinity.

(FOR THE ASHEYmLE CITIZEN.)

MORE OF THE TOBACCO REMEDY.

Ho^. T. L. Clikgmak:

"Dear Sir: — I cheerfully comply with your request,
and give you the results of my experience and observa-
tions with regard to 'the claims of your recent great dis-
covery, and of its virtues as a remedial agent. It gives
me great pleasure to add my testimony most unhesitat-
ingly to that of the many others, who are giving it such
unqualified praise. I have recently had occasion to test
its efficacy in a nnmber of cases — some of which I will
give you, and in every one of which it gave entire satis-
faction, and accomplished the ends for which it was used.
The first was my own, which was a protracted spell of
most distressing nervous headache, which lasted some
days, and would not yield to the usual remedies. An
application to the forehead and temples of some large
tobacco leaves, folded together and well moistened in
warm water, gave prompt and perfect relief. Another
case was that of a most worrying and harassing cough of
some duration, brought on by wet feet and exposure to
dampness and night air. Some of the most approved
syrups failed to give relief, but a few tobacco leaves
saturated with warm water, and applied to the chest
over the region of the lungs and about the throat, gave
speedy and permanent relief. Another and most interest-
ing case was that of my own little four-year old daughter,
who was most violently attacked with that dreaded and
fell destroyer, diphtheria, the disease developing with such
alarming rapidity, as to awaken in me the deepest solici-
tude. I made haste to apply the tobacco, and had not

38 THE TOBACCO REMEDY.

long to wait until the beneficial effects were perfectly ap-
parent. A few tobacco leaves, prepared as in the cases
above stated and applied to the throat, very soon checked
and modified the symptoms as to render the disease easily
tractable, and her convalescence was rapid and steady.
Of course I used other remedies, but they were only such
as had failed in many less marked cases than hers. I
believe that her recovery is mainly attributable to the
tobacco. Still another case is that of my neighbor, Mr.
N. B. Westfall, who had a violent attack of diphtheria."

Mr. Bristol, the gentleman who has charge of the
office in this hotel (the Eagle), had, for at least a dozen
years at intervals, been a sufferer from attacks of pain in
the side and indigestion, attributed to torpidity of the
liver. Eecently one of those attacks came on, he applied
tobacco to the seat of the pain, the region of the liver,
and a single night's application took away all the pain.
He has had no return of the pain since, and his digestion
is good. He was also suffering lately much pain from a
contraction of the sinews and muscles under his knee,
but an application of tobacco for one night removed the
pain. He could straighten his leg and walk as usual,
seeming entirely well. He vows that no consideration
would induce him to give up tobacco.

A gentleman who brought his wife to this region for
cure of consumption, says, that as she was lately suffer-
ing from pain in the side, he applied tobacco, and next
day the pain was relieved and she felt better.

A lady not far from this place, whose husband has
been a member of our legislature, suffered from what is
called milk leg. Her hip, thigh, and leg were much
swollen. After weeks of suffering, the physicians pro-
nounced it a case of pyaemia, or blood poisoning. Her
husband caused tobacco to be applied, and he stated to

THE TOBACCO REMEDY. 39

two gentlemen, who informed me, that he regarded her as
well. Oases of what is popularly known as fever cake of
long standing have been removed at once by tobacco.

Persons have told me that cases of cancer have also
been cured, but the sores may possibly not have been
really cancers. I found, however, a case which the two
physicians who have practised longest in the town, and
are gentlemen of the highest standing, have pronounced
cancer. The patient, Mr. John Ledford, had borne it
seven years on the side of his nose. I saw him and ob-
served a white scab and swelling, with redness around it,
which extended to the eye and cheek. I advised him to
try tobacco on it. I saw him after a week's trial. The
inflammation around the scab had disappeared, and the
scab seemed smaller. When I last saw him the scab was
smaller and seemed about to fall off, and the sore to dis-
appear.

Sores inside the nose, attributed to catarrhal irritation,
and of long standing, have been entirely cured by put-
ting into the nostrils a plug of wet tobacco, and keeping
it there for a few hours at a time.

I close with a reference to cattle cases. In every in-
stance in this region, where tobacco in milk has been
given to hogs suffering from cholera, a cure has been the
result. Even where the hog was unable to stand, a
drenching with tobacco juice cured him. Milk sickness
among the cattle is cured by tobacco.

Mr. Preston F. Patton, a large farmer in this county,
informs me of other remarkable cures. In the spring of
the year many of his cows died from some poisonous
plant, which came up on his plantation. He says, that
during last May at least twenty-five of them fell down
and would have died, but that he drenched theni with
about a pint of tobacco juice, and in less than half an
hour every one of them arose and recovered.

All such facts as these strengthen the probability that

40 THE TOBACCO REMEDY.

tobacco will cure Asiatic cholera. You have published a
statement that one case was cured by the application of
tobacco to the stomach. That may do when the attack
begins, but at later stages the juice should probably be
swallowed.

In like manner, when consumption begins with a cold,
application of tobacco to the breast and throat may
arrest it.

If the facts which have been established can be general-
ly made known, I feel confident that much the greater
part of human suffering will be arrested.

Yours truly, T. L. Clingma^.

The following is an editorial of that issue :
THE TOBACCO CURE.

To illustrate the advantages of the Tobacco Cure as dis-
covered and published by General Clingman, let a few
cases be presented :

In the first place, let it be supposed that a salve were
invented and patented that would, by a single night's
application, remove from the feet all corns, bunions, and
other sores, without pain to the person ; would not such
a discovery be regarded as universally beneficial to
humanity ?

Secondly. Suppose that some one had made a com-
pound that, in a single night, or often in an hour or two,
would completely cure all sore throats, whether caused
by diphtheria, croup, quinsy, scarlet fever or other dis-
ease, would not the discoverer be regarded as the greatest
of benefactors ?

Thirdly. Suppose that an eye-water could be made
that would, in like manner, cure all inflamed eyes, whether

THE TOBACCO EEMEDY. 41

the inflammation he due to injury from a wound or from
disease, how beneficial would not this discovery be re-
garded ?

Fourthly. If a compound could be made that at once,
without pain, cured all cases of erysipelas on the head,
face, or other part of the body, would not this be deemed
an invaluable remedy ?

Fifthly. Suppose a compound could be made that
would at once relieve all wounds on the body, whether
they were cuts, bruises, sprains, or other injuries from
violence, or sores like bone-felons or ulcers, or boils of
long standing, and thus prevent lockjaw or mortification,
and that in a few hours all pain, swelling and soreness
ceased, would not such a remedy be esteemed invaluable
to humanity ?

Sixthly. How much would people prize a remedy that
at once relieved all cases of haemorrhoids ?

Seventhly. How much would a remedy be worth that
cured neuralgia, sciatica, rheumatism, rheumatic gout,
and other similar diseases ?

Any one such remedy, or either of the seven above
enumerated, tobacco is, and cures promptly without pain
or inconvenience to the patient. Besides these ailments,
it is already ascertained that it gives relief to other in-
ternal pains and diseases, such as pleurisy, pains in the
liver, lungs, wind-pipe and other inward parts.

As seventy-five per cent, of all cases of consumption
are estimated to arise from colds, if these colds are at
once cured by applications of tobacco to the throat and
breast, the mortality from this dreaded disease will be
greatly diminished.

It also has been tried and invariably cured hogs of
cholera, and cattle of certain injuries attributed to poi-
sons. In this way, when its uses are generally under-
stood, it will save millions of dollars to the people of the
United States, by preserving live stock from destruction.

42 THE TOBACCO REMEDY.

If all the above-stated propositions are absolutely true,
has anything been presented to the human mind so ben e-
ficial in a material point of view as this Tobacco Remedy ?
If persons doubt as to the truth of any one of the above
statements, let them make the trial, as the experiment
costs little time and trouble, and can be made without
danger.

To enable persons to obtain tobacco in the leaf for use,
Congress ought to allow small quantities to be sold in
that form, at least for medicinal purposes. Better
still would it be for manufacturers of tobacco to have the
leaves laid together smoothly, and then pressed into
cakes, without drugging them, and thus enable persons
to obtain it in the best form for use.

From experiments made by myself and others, I am
satisfied that tobacco ointments, plasters, and liniments
may be so prepared, that the virtues of the Tobacco
Remedy may be obtained in cases where the application
of the wet tobacco itself would be inconvenient, and
therefore especially advantageous in case of animals to
be treated.

If the surgeons in the Army and Navy of the United
States will adopt the Tobacco Remedy in their hospital
and other practices, many lives will be saved. There
would also be a gain to the government in a pecuniary
point of view, from the suddenness of the cures.

Should the facts stated in this pamphlet become gen-
erally known, I believe that much more than half of the
bodily suffering of humanity will be prevented.
Respectfully,

T. L, Clingman.

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