She began to try all manner of remedies on him.

She was one of those people who are infatuated with patent medicines and all new-fangled methods of producing health or mending it.

She was an inveterate experimenter in these things.

When something fresh in this line came out she was in a fever, right away, to try it; not on herself, for she was never ailing, but on anybody else that came handy.

She was a subscriber for all the "Health" periodicals and phrenological frauds; and the solemn ignorance they were inflated with was breath to her nostrils.