Do not run to clairvoyants and spiritual humbugs for advice. A clairvoyant
physician once said to me,--
"Mr. So-and-so has just called upon me to learn where he shall spend the
winter. He thinks he has the consumption, and that I can tell him where he
will pass the winter safely. What confounded fools some of these men are,
to be sure!" she exclaimed. "Why, I have got that disease myself (not the
foolish disease, but consumption), and don't know what to do to save my
own life."
That lady is living in Boston to-day. The gentleman went to St. Thomas,
dying in the hospital in January, amongst strangers, where every dollar he
possessed was stolen from him.
Nearly all patent medicines are humbugs. Avoid them. Dr. Dio Lewis says
that "the bath-tub is a humbug." I believe him. While you avoid drowning
inside by pouring down drugs, do not exhaust your vitality externally in a
bath-tub. The hand-bath is all-sufficient for consumptives.