DIPTHERIA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1442, 28 July 1883, Page 4

DIPTHERIA.

When diptheria was raging at C'astlemaine, Victoria, a correspondent sent the following to the editor of the Mount Alexander Mail:-" Should you or any of your family be attacked, do not be alarmed, as it is both easily and speedily cured without going for ii doctor, When it was raging in England a few years ago I accompanied Dr Field on his rounds in both town and country to witness the so-called "wonderful cures" he performed—while the pationts of other medical mow were dropping off on all sides. Of course the remedy to bo so oflicacious and rapid must be simple. AH that ,he took with him was sulphur and a quill, and water, and instead of a spoon ho wed his finger in stirring it, as sulpher does not rcadilv amalgamate with water, As soon as the sulpher was pretty much mixed he gave it as a gargle and in ten minutes the patient was out of danger—brimstone killing every species of fungus in man, beast, and plant in a few minutes. Instead of splitting the gargle out, as usual, he recommended the patient to swallow it. In extreme cases to which ho had been called "just in the nick of time" to rescue the sufferer from death, where the fungus was too nearly- closing to admit of sufficient breath passing to enable the patient to gargle, he blew the sulphur into the throat through a quill; and wheu the fungus had shrunk sufficiently to admit the sufficient wind passing to gargle, then giving the mixture, the whole occupying a few minutes only, and he never lost a patient from diphtheria. If you should meet a patient that- cannot gargle, take a live coal (coal or wood) from the fire, put it on a shovel, and sprinkle the flour of brimstone on it, a spoonful or two at a time, and let the sufferer inhale it, holding the head over it, and the fungus will die. If plentifully used the whole room will he filled almost to snffocatio.i, and the patient may walk about it, inhaling the fumes, with the doors and windows shut, This mode of fumigating a room with sulphur has often cured most violent attacks of cold in the head, chest, ctc.,atonetimo,