Croup and Diphtheria

Feilding Star, 24 January 1888, Page 3

Croup and Diphtheria

Ai wrrespondent^aerids^.the following | to a Dunedin " contemporary : — Ruth Lockwqod, , , , nine-year-old; chilk of Thomas Lpckwopd, a com-' pdsitor in the Times-office, became viblipntly? ill '.with: diphtheria irecgptly «„. Shej was so weak that it .was deemed danjgerous to try tracheotomy, or; cutting open thb wiiid^pf^e. Dr Nicholas, 1 o¥ "West Washington! who: was attending her, received a copy of the! Paris Figaro, 1 whicH^contained a. repbrt made by tjie' Fren6bl" ; Acadaniy ' of Medicine by Dr Delthill. Dr 1 Delthil; said that the vapors pf liquid tar and turpentine would dissolve the fibrous exudations which choke up the throat' in 'croup and diptheria. Dr D^hil'B-proc*sß was prescribed. He pdur^ep^^M^turp^n^ and liquid tar ;in^o cup and sets fire to the mixture. Aaqnee iTesinoussmoke^anses,^.whiph obscures FtHe; air of the: room; ' Theypa#ent,u-Dr; Delthill says; amoiediately! seems to experience relief , -the choking- and rattle 'atop^s; the i patient falls into a ! si uin ber, an d.seem s to' iuhalethe "sriibk c .Tjie' *fibi^n;biis ' niemv brdne soon becomes 'detached,., .and^ihe, patient,cougbß.up mijerjC^icid^s. ;. These when caught in aglas.Qj may, be t §c.en to dissolve in the smoke. In the course of three days afterwards the patient entirely 'recovers. * Dr Nicholas tried this treatment . with little Butk Lockwood/ 'She; was ' fyin'gf ; gaapt'ng forßreitn wlien he first Visited 1 her. First pourJßg , .ab.put, 't wo %uls p.f liqu^foa far pn^an^.i|pia pan,jhe poiire^f .'as, mpch ' tiurpentip c* over, it emd setli'ipn'fiije. t JS%^ -riphresinclus suipke wjn^r^^ ih^t ceiling^ by no jneans unpieaeant. As it "filled the ■Toom, the child's breathing became natural ; aud as the empke grew dense she felt asleep.— New York Sun. :