Mr Greathead’s Cure for Diptheria.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1672, 22 April 1885, Page 2

Mr Greathead’s Cure for Diptheria.

The now famous Mr Greathead has been interviewed by a reporter of the Melbourne Telegraph, on the subject of his cure for diptheria, and the following is the statement made by him :—“ The acid is to be used in i s full strength, not diluted. lam sure that the stoppage in the throat which constitutes dipthoria is not a fungus, but a mass of insects. These insects emit a matter which creates a kind of film, and as they grow the lilm is swelled out until there is no breathing room in the throat. If it were a fungus, the acid would not remove it. I, in the case of one patient, obtained a portion of the matter out of the throat, and putting it under a powerful glass, I discovered it to be a moving mass. I dropped some of the acid upon it, and immediately it changed color, and presented altogether a different aspect. I commenced my experiments about 18 months ago, if experiments they may bo termed, for my discovery was purely accidental. I discovered the cure thus—l was living nt Seymour, or rather a few miles from Seymour, and one of my sons was taken bad with diptheria. There was no doctor at hand. I was at the time taking sulphuric acid as a medicine for p.uiifviug the blown. I had found the acid t'Vicarious in clearing the phlegm fio.n, m ' tinor i. cud when mv child was chokiu. iV. m dWhiHr. 1 u-cd it as a chance resource ! guve him one dose, and in a few seconds ho said, ‘Ma, 1 can breathe as well as ever I did ! ’ Several children have since boon cured with oao drink. Two of my boys were very bad, wire jw in a state of strangulation, wore nearly dying in fact, oad one dose, as I have mentioned, cured them. 1 have never had to give more than one drink. I have cured about a dozen cases that were really bad, and cm so sure of my cure that I would risk my life on it. Whatever the doctors may say, 1 am convinced that diptheria is an accumulation of insects, and not a vegetable giowth, and I stake my life upon it, that ‘four drops of the strongest sulphurous uciu m a glass ut water ’ is a safe cure.”