Diptheria.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1676, 20 February 1885, Page 3

Diptheria.

Mr. Ge-.rge Orfconio, in a letter publish;-1 XfV. - H ,ti; [a[- r, Je.-ciibes t;,c •Mm N'yws-.u, bi.ck.ayar, in my employ at the Hew jublio .“ti.vu. l aiiuiiia.-*. Charcoal, a lit "ttM =iLfj j“-t ! i,- f’J> s ; child owing to diptl.erii. A* rtb- r (hi I in the same family became seriously emcud, and, though under ekiiful treatment, the dht-iAe had spread £o rapidiv that r.o hope was enter Miu.-1 for its recovery. A few Jays ago, while tue father was slack; tig iiuw ia my pit-.-cnee, he Wes describing to me the -uttering th- child hid to endure, o-ptciaity while blushing the throat. A 6UggC;tl n acci ieuta.iy occurred to Cle li.it if it v.ete ] o«>ible to hlVe the patient held over me steam ascending from tie lime while under the process of sucking, probably good results might he produced. Ihe father, anxious to do atmiiimr to save the child's life, adopted the stiggea.»ou ana took a lump of the unaiacked stone lime to his residence, put it in a basin, slicked it in the bedroom with boiling water, and held the child over the steam to inhale as much as pos-ible until it got mm a stat- of jetspii.ul. n. after which, when it f.dt iliitsty. i.e gave it a drink of lime water. It immediately discharged from the m-’Utii a ijnantuy of matter oUstructieg the tiuoit, an 1 ia a few Louis partook of a hearty meal, and slept well dining the night, and has m w ;■ ite recovered. No duubnbe tnedicd pi.-.-i—will pooh-pooh such an id'o. a>- 1 att'i'.M- the tec.•very to £; me otner ciuse. r,e time as it mav, here is a ci=o iu point, an i ah the ligament or knguue 111 the Mag, .fi:i tongue will m-t convine- Vi ur humid servant or the parents of this dul l that «ny ( tier itmedy ttiaa that flljVc etale 1 saVed Its .lie.