SEPTICAEMIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 15 June 1907, Page 4

SEPTICAEMIA.

A correspondent to the Auckland Herald writes: In a recent issue of the Herald there is an account of the death of 'a man at Cisborne from septicaemia Tliis. in the vernacular, is simply bloodpoisoning. The writer has long known of a thoroughly reliable specific for this misfortune in sulphur, and ha* more than once had ample proof of its power, but, through diffidence as an outsider, held back from mentioning it, although often tempted when reading in your colmus of many deaths from the same simple cause. 1 can compare it. to nothing more aptly than pulling a ferrit into a r,;bbit-hole-■•everything is driven out. in front. 1 once scratched one of my wrists with a splinter from the jawbone of a bullock's head 1 was cut lino- up. The meat was slightly tainted. No mark even was noticed until the following day. when my arm was highly inflamed, and it soon got; to the elbow, and felt hot and sore to the shoulder. It gamine a. scare sure enough, yet having the utmost eonlidencc in the remedy mentioned. I. without further delay, took a small tea-

spoonful of sulphur, at the same time bathing the arm with the mixture used for killing moss on fruit trees (lime, sulphur, and sail boiled together). Finelycrnsbed ro'-k snlplmr is most effective internally; lloweis of sulphur is a good outride application for any sore. For [safety, another spoonful of the remedy

was tiiV 11 at bedtime. On the following morning the swelling had nearly disappeared. and was almost forgotten before iln> day was out. Xeed nunc be said? Invalids go to Kotorua, ami come back renovated in health. vol 1 doubt il" move thrill one in one hundred realises tliat it is llu* sulphur-charged wafer mid atmosphere, and nothing else. which ell'ects i ho change.