A CERTAIN CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2177, 24 June 1890, Page 4

A CERTAIN CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA

The following is worthy of more (ban passing notice — Some years ago, wh»n diphtheria was violently epid m c in Eogl.ud, the ce^e-raied Dr Field accomplished such wonderful ernes, that gentlemen, who could not believe the stories told of the doctor's succes-i, used to accompany him on his rounds aud witness f>r themselves the so-called "miraclis." When starting on his daiiy visits, Dr Fi^ld took nothing with him except fljur of sulphur and a q.ull, and with tbt-se he cured every patien' without exception. He put a teaspoonful of ordinary flour of brimstone into a wineglass of water, and as sulphur does not readily amalgamate wi'h water, be stirred it with his finger*, instead .of a sp.on. Wl.en well mixed he gave it as •* gargle, aud ia ten miou'es the patient would be out of dange- 1 . Inste id of spitting out the garg c the doctor recommended the swallowing of. it. In extreme c ises, in which he had been called just in the nick of time, when the fungus was too nearly closing to a low the gargling, he blew tba xulphur through a quill into the th' Oat. and after the fungus had shrunk a litttle, the garg'e was given. It the patient could not gargle, the doctor took a live coal, put it on a shovel, and after sprinkling a hrge spoonful of sulphur upon it, made the suflVer inhale the fumes, and the fungus disappeared. The. remedy is both sirap'e and rapid, for sulphur kills every species of fungus in nun, beast, or phnt in tea minutes.