Sausage as a Remedy
While studying at the University of Göttingen, Bismarck was taken ill one day. The doctor was sent for and ordered quinine. Soon after he had left, a big box of “eatables” arrived from home. Bismarck went at it, consumed about two pounds of sausage, washed down with several glasses of beer, and then went to sleep. The fever left him.
Next day when the doctor came he said: “Thank heaven, dear doctor, the fever is gone.”
“Yes,” replied the doctor, “quinine is a most excellent remedy.”
“Well it wasn’t exactly this time, you best of doctors, but two pounds of sausage had the same effect, and nature may do the rest.”