DIPHTHERIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17788, 13 May 1918, Page 6

DIPHTHERIA.

TO THE EDITOR,

Sir, —While it is onlv proper whenever diphtheria manifests itself, or is even suspected, that n doctor should ho called in, it is nevertheless ndvisablo. in my humble opinion, that parents and others should employ any simple safe .remedy which has been found to bo efficacious until a medical man has arrived. I bolievo greatly in the application of sulphur to the throat, because I have found it has never failed if used in time. Some rears ago my wife had a bad attack of diphtheria, and before tho doctor arrived with, his ami-toxin her mother got her to inhale in the throat the fumes of sulphur which had been sprinkled on redhot cinders placed on a shovel. The result was wonderful, tho disease having almost disappeared, and tho doctor was candid enough to admit that sulphur was a valuable remedy. Many years since a doctor wrote that ho had never lost a patient by tho use of sulphur in an attack of diphtheria, and in cases whore the fumes could not bo inhaled he blew the powder into tho threat. I hope this information may bo of service to sumo of your readers.—l am, etc.,