THE WATER OF LIFE - Thought for Food

CHAPTER V.
GANGRENE
Gangrene, described in simple language as "death of a part," is
regarded as hopeless of cure by the orthodox physician. "Gangrene has
set in " is a phrase invariably accepted as the last stage which precedes
the almost immediate decease of the victim. Where gangrenes sets in
after a finger, toe or limb has been amputated, it is often fatal,
especially in the case of persons past middle age. All the same, I have
proved that gangrene can be easily cured.
My first acquaintance with the ravages of gangrene was in 1891 when I
was a schoolboy of ten. My closest schoolmate had complained of face‐
ache for some days before being taken to a local dentist for the
extraction of a tooth far back in the jaw. Unfortunately some of the jaw
came away with the molar, and gangrene set in. Drugs and ointments
were applied to reduce (or perhaps better said suppress) the swelling,
and the boy died ten days later.
It so happened that at the same time as my schoolmate was suffering, I
also had a swollen cheek. But the remedy my mother applied (she was
a farmer's daughter, by the way) was a very different one from the "
scientific " ones the doctors had applied to my young friend. True, my
own swollen cheek was the result of having been stung by a lot of bees,
owing to my having disturbed a colony of those interesting little
creatures. All the same it was very painful, till my mother completely
cured it by first bathing my face in urine and then binding it up with
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