A CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2659, 27 July 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

A CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA.

" A few days ago," says a Home paper, '■ when diphtheria was raging in England, a gentleman accompanied the celeliratcd Dr Field oil his rounds to witness the the so-called ' wonderful cures, which he performed, while the patients of other doctors were dropping on all sides. The remedy, to be so rapid, must be simple : all he tO"k with him was flour sulphur and a quill, and with this he cured every patient without exception. He put a teaspoonful of (lour brimstone into a wine glass of water, and stirred it with his linger instead of a spoon, as the sulphur does not readily amalgamate with water. When the sulphur was well mixed he gave it as a gargle, and in ten minutes the patient was out of danger. Brimstone kills every species of fungus, in 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 too allow of the gargling, he blew the sulphur through a quill into the throat, and after the fungus had shrunk to allow of it, then gave the gargle. He never lost a patient from diptheria. 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 die."