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Otago Witness, Issue 2581, 2 September 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)

CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.

The Foreign Office is located in Downing street, and is the home of ths Department of the Secretary of 'State for Foreign Affairs. In our snapshot on p. 4 Lord Salisbury is 3een with Mr Balfour leaving the Foreign Office, and the present picture gives an excellent idea of the building itself.

A cable message published in " The Age" a few weeks ago stated that a prominent London physician had discovered a cure for consumption. The cure was alleged to be effected by 'the inhalation of fumes from a mixture of sulphur, eucalyptus and charcoal. " The Age " has received' from Mr A. J. Taylor, public librarian at Hobart, a .copy of a pamphlet, in! which he. states that he has been for many year* a strong advocate, of the use of sulphur fumes in cases of ..consumption. Mr Taylor** belief in the efficacy *of sulphui fumes is based' on personal experience. Some thirty-four years ago/ he says, he was suffering from consumption. He read of the case of a "man who had been cured of the same disease through inhaling sulphur fumes in the course ' of his occupation,', and decided to try the same remedy. The result surpassed his most sanguine expectations, and in a ,few months he was completely cured. Afterwards he induced other people suffering from consumption to try the same-remedy, and in Mb pamphlet he gives particulars of several remarkable cures. In conclusion, he gives reasons why sulphurous acid gas, which is the product of burning sulphur, should be useful in cases of consumption. He points out that' sulphurous acid kills plant life, and as it had been found by Professor Koch' that the tubercular germ was a low form of plant life, there was reason for the belief that the consumptive bacilli would succumb ' also to the sulphurous fumes if properly inhajed.

One of the principal attractions of the grounds of Hatfield House is ita noble avenue of irees, an avenue which is surpassed by few in England.

Hatfield, or Bishop Hatfield. is a market town in 'Hertfordshire, some twenty miles northywest of 'London. There exist a few scanty remains of the lath, century palace, once the property of the Bishops of Ely, Ibut together with the manor, seized by Henry VIII., and successively the residence of lihat King, of Edward VI., and Queen Elizabeth before their accession, and of James I. Hatfield House, the seat at the Marquis of Salisbury, was built 'by Sir Robert Cecil, in 1611, and is a fine specimen of Jacobean architecture, rich in portraits and historical manuscripts. Hatfield House is ibuilt on the site of the old palace which James L exchanged with Sir Robert Cecil for his estate at Theobalds, near Cjheshunt, in the same coumty. The west ■wing of the present mansion, built for Cecil in 1608-11, was destroyed by fire in November, 1835, the Dowager-Marchioness of Salisbury .perishing in the flames. Hatfield House is a square-built structure of great size, with large and lofty rooms. The grounds are imposing, Ibut it is said "that they might be better kept than is the case. The house itself is rich in historical associations. Within its walls are State papers of priceless value. Elizabeth's correspondence with Mary Queen of Scots, details of the Armada preparations, particulars of the Rye House and Gunpowder plots, and many other equally interesting documents are to be seen there. The cradle in which Queen Elizalberth was rocked to sleep is there also, and of this Lord Salisbury many years ago presented a reproduction in silver to her late -Majesty Queen Victoria. The pen "with which the British representatives signed the ißerlin Treaty, of which Lord Salisbury wa s one of the signatories, is also there.