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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 142, 16 June 1892, Page 9

' Testimony to the value of the gas, cure in cases of diphtheria is to the 7 Wellington "Poet" ;byl 4 a correspondent,^ who writes:—" The prevalence of this scourge, and the seeming .of the* medical fa'cultf tb}.batfle; jvith it, gauis^B me to give; an account of the case of a child in Dunedin, which is now olive, after the doctors, had'given 7 it up. Unfortunately l\ Heard of this cure too late. My only one had' succumbed to the same fatal disease after three days of most agonUjtag suspense?/ The result came to be true to the doctor's predicted verdict, •No help.' But lam told there is help in the very last stage of the illness,, and I give a father's story, who saved the life of hta second child, as I got the report from him. He said :, * One of my eldest children was down with this illneei, and the doctor having given this child up, ib diod. A second one, a girl, took the disease, which also threatened to end fatally. I had: beard of the pas cure, and in myi frenzy I took my dying child to the Gasworks in South Dunedin, two miles or more distant. Arrived there I placed myself near one of the retorts, and as long as I could stand the fumes the child had to inhale the gas.: To my joy the fungus dissolved at once, it> came up, and the child iisd*iro wb«d -after-effects,- living 'to- the present day.'. I leave the Dame of the fortunate father and my own at the office of your paper, with the hope that this gaa cure may be investigated and perhaps prove the correct remedy for this fatal malady. Gas can be conveyed anywhere in strong bottles."