REMEDY FOR DIPHTHERIA.
TO THE EDITOR.
Sir, — I forward you an extract taken from the Leisure Hour for last year, p 448, the following simple remedy for the cure of diphtheria, which may be of importance to some of your readers. — I am, &c, N. Hooker.
One of the ambulance sends the following extract from a South African paper :— "We can vouch for the efficiency of the following remedy for diphtheria. A few years ago, when this dreaded disease was raging in England, a very simple and rapid remedy for it was discovered by the celebrated Dr. Field. He put a teaspoonful of flour of sulphur into a wineglass of water, and when well mixed he gave it as a gargle. Brimstone destroys every species of fungus in man, beast, or plant. Instead of spitting the gargle out Dr. Field recommended the swallowing of it. In extreme cases, to which he had been called just in the nick of time, when the fungus was too near closing to allow gargling, he blew the sulphur through a quill into the throat, and after the fungus had shrunk, to allow of it, ordered the gargling, and he never lost a patient from diphtheria."
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 4062, 8 June 1882, Page 2
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