CURE FOR CONSUMPTION

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 138, 22 May 1880, Page 3

CURE FOR CONSUMPTION

The Lancet, of December l-'S. says:— " For some few weeks past the German :iiL'ilicttl l'i'esfi has been discussing a new euro for phthisis, and accounts more or > n xs anedrate of the method and its bcuo- ■ "'is have found their way into the daily and

v.'ackly papers both on the oontiuent and in this country and have exciter] a considerable amount of attention. It. is thus 'lnscribed in a letter from Dr. Kroczak, the assistant to Professor Rokitanksky, of Ijmsbruck, who ban lieeu treating the consiitnptiv'e patients in bis wards by tlie rif\v method, and it is said with results that have far surpassed his expectations, hut as yet no delinito statistics of the oases and their course have been published :—Natrium Benzoicum, ono pfmillo of the bodily weight diluted to !! solution of 0 per cent, is inhaled twico " day, in tllo morning and evening, by laeans of a well acting ' Siegle's pulveriMtor' without Interruption during seven weeks. Besides, the appetite, which Will show itself soon, is to be fully satis'H by n meat diet-, and fresh air and prevention of all enervating influences are to bo ensured. The remedy, there•'ire, is simple cnougli. A Hvp-per-ccnt. solution of bonzoato of soda in to be inhaled twico daily for seven wocks by ''leans of Nioglo's atomising inhaler, in thy proportion of 1< part of the salt to a •OOOtlt of the liody .weight. The quantity necessary for ft pationt 14011 m. in height '.would therefore bo about L'|i>»i. R t each Inhalation. And the inhaler '"list Ito carefully adjusted for sueU a '"'"go amount to bo taken into the air postage, A certain quantity will nlW't.vs oiicapo into and purmeuto tho air : ww room, and the patient should .riv for an hour after each inhulutiou,* wfossor ItokitatflfcV isntw of the rount. "uinont-a'moiMst ' phyij.