SEPTICÆMIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13451, 30 May 1907, Page 7

SEPTICÆMIA.

, Sir,— a recent issue of the Herald there is an account of the death of a man at Gisborne from septicemia. This, in the vernacular, is simply blood-poisoning. The wrjter has. long known of a thoroughly reliable specific for this misfortune in sulphur, and has more than once had ample proof ol its power, but, through diffidence as an outsider, held back from mentioning it, although often tempted when reading in your columns of many deaths from the same simple cause. -1 can compare it to nothing more aptly than putting a ferret into a "rabbit-hole—everything is driven out in front. I once scratched one of my wrists ! with a splinter from the jawbone of a bullock's head I was cutting up. The meat was slightly tainted. No mark even was noticed until the following day, when my arm was highly inflamed, and it soon got to the elbow, and felt hot and sore to the shoulder. It gave me a scare sure enough, i yet, having - the utmost confidence in the remedy mentiond,. I, without further delay, took a small teaspoonful of sulphur, at. the same time bathing the arm with the mixture used for killing - moss on fruit trees (lime sulphur, and salt boiled together). i Finely-crushed rock sulphur is most effective internally; flowers of sulphur is a good, outside application for any sore. For safety, another spoonful of the remedy was taken at.bedtime. . On the following morning the swelling had nearly disappeared! and was almost forgotten before the day was out.. Need,more be said? Invalids go to Rotorua, and come back renovated in health; yet I doubt if more than one in 100 realises, ithat t.it is the sulphur-charged water-and atmosphere, and nothing else, j which effects the change. [ Riverbead. " Richp. Majbsh.