REMEDY FOR DIPHTHERIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 202, 19 October 1900, Page 1

REMEDY FOR DIPHTHERIA.

Thb following is a very simple and rapid remedy given by a celebrated English doctorHe put a teaspoonful of sulphur into a wine glass of water and stirred it with his finger instead of a spoon, as the sulphur does not steadily amalgamate with water. When-the sulphur was well mixed he gave it as a gargle, and in ten minutes the patient was out cf danger, Brimstone kills every known species of fsngos in man, beast and plant in a fewminutes. Instead of spibting the gargle out he recommended the swallowing of it. In extreme cases to which he had been called just in the nick of time, when the fungus was too nearly olcsing to allow gargling, he blew the dry sulphur " through a quill into the throaty and after the fungus had shrunk to allow of it, then the gargling, and he uever lost a patient by diphtheria. The following is another tried recipe for die treatment cf diphtheria:— Equal parts of liquid tar and tur pentine are poured iato a cup or pan. The, mixture is then set on fire and the patient breathes the thick resinous smoke, and immediately seems to experience relief; tbe choking and ratt|e atop ; the patient falls into a slumber and seema to inhale the smoke with pleasure. The fibiinous membranq soon becomes detached, and the patient coughs up microbicides. These, when caught in a glass, may be seen to dissolve in the smoke. In the course of -three days after the patient recovers.