SULPHURIC ACID IN CONSUMPTION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1116, 3 July 1883, Page 3

SULPHURIC ACID IN CONSUMPTION.

Most readers are aware that sulphurous acid is one of our most important bacillicides, and the more to be recommended as it can bo inhaled with comparative impunity. Mr Kircher, a pupil of Liebig, and owner of a chemical factory in Brooklyn, writes, says the Medical and Surgical Reporter, as follows to the Zeitch, f, d. Oester, Apoth. Verein : —‘ The observation of Koch has found a brilliant confirmation in my factory, where a large quantity of sulphur is evaporated daily. That iu this process a great deal of sulphurous acid is formed can easily be imagined. During the 44 years that ray factory has existed none of the many laborers have been affected by tubercular consumptionnay, more frequently persons in the beginning stages of this disease applied for admittanceand were cured within a few weeks, simply by inhaling the sulphurous acid. If not too far progressed these individuals become strong, stout, and perfectly healthy again.’ All diseases zymotic in character, even cholera, stay away from his factory and those working there. Persons affected with bronchial catarrh are rapidly cured. All phtisical patients should live in rooms where hourly one to two drachms of sulphur are evaporated on a warm stove. First eight or ten days there is increased irritation of cough and expectoration ; then these, cease, and the individual rapidly improves. Convalescents should live for a time in rooms filled with aromatic watery vanours.