DIPHTHERIA AND THE GAS CURE. TO THE EDITOR
Sib — Tho prevalence of this scourge, and the seeming inability of the medical faculty to battle with it, causes mo to give an Moonnt of the case of a child in Dunedin which ia now alivo, aftor tho doctors hod given it up. Unfortnnatoly I heard of t)u\ euro too late. My only one had suoonmbod to the same fat&l disease after tare* days of
most agonising suspense. The result camo to l>c true to tho doctor'ri prcdictod verdict, "No help." But lam told thoro is help in the very last stage of tho illness, and I give a father's story, who saved the life of his Kocond child, as I got the report from him. I!.' said: "Oiio of my oldnHt children was clown with this illness, and the doctor having "iven this child up, it died. A second ono, a girl, took the disease, which also I'li-catoiiod to end fatally. I had lunrd of the gas euro, and in my frenzy 1 look my dying child to the gafworks in Sj'itli Dunodin, two miles or more ... : uit Auivi'd tlieru I phifcd myself nnar .. .. ( ,i Ihe 1 toith. uvl a-, lon;,' a- T ooulJ r! i.»l t li»j luiiu -i th'- cLiM hiul to inlmlo the- •;.. f . To my joy the I'uiii'in di^=oU-o<i at n, ct". it ••»!«('• np, anil the oinl<l luul no J>nd ,i'tfi--pfVu:U, livinff to tho pro-iOJit ilcy." I 1- !>e t'.-i- naiiieol the- fojtunato father aud n.y own itt the olJii-o of your papor, with the li' |i« that this tfas euro may bo investigated hi (I pel-Imps prove the correct remedy for ti.is fatal malady. Gas can be conveyed anywberc in strong bottlen. I am &c, R.
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Evening Post, Volume XLIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1892, Page 4
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290DIPHTHERIA AND THE GAS CURE. TO THE EDITOR Evening Post, Volume XLIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1892, Page 4
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