Fleas and Sulphur.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 18 September 1914, Page 2

Fleas and Sulphur.

Travelling showmen are said to use sulphur to prevent the bites of lice and other vermin. On this subject Dr. John Broom sends the following to the ' British Medical Journal' : "We got a Yorkshire terrier dog some time ago, and our lives became intolerable to us all from the pest of fleas therefrom. He seemed to have a special attraction to fleas. 1 had noticed a letter from a doctor in the East of London referring to the taking of a sulphur tablet- daily before going out to visit, he being so susceptible to fleas, so I followed his example. At the same time we put in the dog's drinking water a big piece of stick sulphur—he always drinks from his own dish. From that day the plague ceased ; not a flea has been felt or seen. I gave up taking the tablets, and the sulphur is seemingly no less with lapse of time. The importance of the point is that people in insect-rid-den places might keep stick sulphur in their drinking water and perhaps suffer less from midges and mosquitoes, to say nothing of fleas, etc."