'To save ourselves trouble and suffering by learning from the experience of others—that is the wisdom of history. Otherwise every generation, and every man and woman therein, would' have.to begin hack where their ancestors did. Every soul of us has to learn the alphabet for himself; but after that he can read and benefit by what others have written, Is that idea plain as peas in a split pod? Yes. Well, then, let us see whether it has anything to say to the facts set forth in the following letter After my confinement," writes a woman, "in August of last year (1893), E could not get up ly strength. My food did not seem to be of any use to me, In some way I was ill, bat I could not give a name to the ailment. My tongue way swollen and thickly coated and I was constantly spitting out the thick phlegm which gathered in my throat
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.