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...hero, Ralph ("Dash") Inman, 24, and a captain from the age of 19, is grey and tense when the book opens because he has lost a ship. The Running of the Tide is the story of his triumphant vindication in command of another ship (the fastest in the world) on a three-year voyage to Batavia and Japan, salting away more than $100,000 a year...
...rest of the story concerns the hero's love affairs and other tried & true situations and characters familiar in historical romances: old Madam Inman, the head of the clan; the malicious Federalists and Jefferson's Embargo Act; the great storm at sea; the brilliant and hysterical girl; the cheers when the long-overdue ship reaches Salem harbor again. The Running of the Tide is no worse than most historical novels, but no better either...
There is one necessary detail which must have been overlooked by Dr. Inman when he treated the eight-year-old boy unsuccessfully: saliva must be applied before brushing the teeth, and before eating anything. As my informant, an ancient German barber, told me: "Schpittle iss purrzon...
...Inman tried the same remedy on an eight-year-old boy, but it failed because he told somebody. So Inman instructed him to "steal a potato from his mother's store, halve it, touch each wart with the raw surface, 'and then bury the potato in the backyard by the light of the full moon - all in the greatest secrecy." Those warts went away, too. The doctor cured an adult of a shin wart by having him apply saliva with his finger...
...charms work? Emotional impulses, Inman thinks, may cure as well as cause warts. Dr. Inman nods knowingly at folklore stories of people getting rid of eyelid styes by rubbing them with wedding rings. He checked 158 patients, found that 92% of those with styes and 80% of those with tarsal cysts (tumors of the eyelid) had "an exceptional interest in birth." Just why such concern should affect eyelids, .Dr. Inman is not sure. But he reasons that "serious chronic inflammations in the body generally might be beneficially influenced by systematic psychoanalysis...