A CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 14 July 1917, Page 6

A CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA.

A correspondent forwards the following paragraph for reproduction:—A few years ago, when diphtheria was raging in England, a gentleman accompanied the celebrated Dr. Field on his rounds to witness the so-called "wonderful cures''; which he performed while the patients of others were dropping 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 flour of brimstone into a wineglass 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 Veil mixed he gave it as a gargle, ten minutes the patient was out dx danger. Brimstone kills every specira of fungus in a 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 had been called just in the nick of time, when the fungus was too nearly closing to allow the gargling, he blew the sulphur through a quill into the throat, and, after the fungus had shrunk enough 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 flour of brimstone upon it; let the sufferer inhale the fumes, and the fungus will di6 ' ''til