A Valuable Remedy.

Manawatu Herald, 3 October 1893, Page 3

A Valuable Remedy.

« The following has been handed to the Chronicle for publication. It originally appeared in the ' Family Herald ' in 1879. We would recommend our readers to cut it out and paste in their scrap books : — Diphtheria, Cubed by sulphur. — A few years ago, when diphtheria was raging in England, a gentleman ac companied the celebrated Dr. Field on his rounds to witness the so-called " wonderful cures " which he performed while the patients of others were dropping off on all sides. The remedy, to be so rapid, must be simple ; all he took with him was flour of sulphur and a quill, and with this he cured every patient without exception. He put a teaspoonful of brimstone into a wine-glass of water and stirred it with his finger instead of a spoon, as the sulphur does not readily amalgamate with water. When the sulphur was well mixed, he gave it as a gargle, and in ten minutes the patient was out of danger. Brimstone kills every species of fungus in man, beast and .plant in ten minutes. Instead of spitting out the gargle, he recommended the swallowing of it. In extreme cases, in which he has been called just in the nick of time, when the fungus was too nearly closing to allow the gargle, he blew the sulphur through a quill into the throat, and after the fungus had shrunk to allow of it, then gave the gargle. He never lost a patient 'from diphtheria. If a patient cannot gargle, take a live coal, put it on a shovel, and sprinkle a spoonful or two of brimstone upon it, let the sufferer inhale the fumes, and the fungus will die.