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Newspaper
Pepin County Press
Location
Pepin, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1861
Page
4
A broad call from Pho Press to Pepin and nearby counties to create a rural department exchanging practical agricultural and domestic tips. It urges brief clear notes on crops, garden care, staking and training, irrigation, and weed control plus practical remedies for animal obstructions using hogs lard and similar ideas.
A fragmentary historical excerpt discusses pores glands and body drainage with medical claims. It argues skin exudes waste and governs health, mentioning infusions of toxins through sweat and suggestion of cures by external cleansing, though wording is garbled and dated in tone.
The passage describes how cleanliness and bathing were used to treat illness, noting a Bengal-like practice of self washing and purging in fever epidemics. It recounts a shipboard smallpox outbreak where many died and some sailors survived by frequent bathing and drying. It also mentions Abernathy and Dr Curry advocating water bathing as a remedy and reflects on Fort Moultrie and Morris Island erosion threatening batteries and camps along the coast.
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