Note 49 — Chapter VI · TO THE HILLS
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Possibly some of the many victims of jungle fever in other lands may be disposed to try the simple remedy described in a letter to the editor of the Ceylon Observer . The writer states that his stalwart brother had, from repeated attacks of Indian jungle fever, dwindled to a mere skeleton, when a fakir came to his tent and offered to permanently cure him.
His materia medica were of the simplest, consisting only of a flat piece of iron and a bottle of sugar-cane vinegar. The former was made red-hot, and the vinegar was poured over it, the patient inhaling the fumes. This operation was repeated only a second time, and from that day forward, in the thirteen years up to date of the letter, the sufferer never had a return of fever, and quite recovered his health.