Science. Diphtheria Cured by Blue Gum Steam.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1884, 2 August 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

Science. Diphtheria Cured by Blue Gum Steam.

Dk. Mukray Gisiskj rcpoito tbiily-seven cases of diphtheria churned to have k s en cured by paturating the atmo^pheie of tho room in ■which the paticut wj.3 placed with the vapor of the eucalyptus globulua. The atmoflpheiG must b8 constantly loaded with steam, and the vapor of tiro 'eucalyptus is obtained by pouring boiling water on tho diied leavos. To assist nataie in throwing oft the membrane, Dr. Gibbc-3 uccj r f-oJuljon of steel and glycerine, with which ho brushes tho throat when the membrane is 100-. Q ciiough to come away easily. Dr. Mosler, in 1879, opoUo Bfrongly of tho valun o£ eucalyptus inhalations in SGvero canca of diphtheria.— London Medical Itecoid.

Tellow Fever by Slogquitoes. Dr. CHklos Fisiay, of Havana, maintains that it may bo common'c.tccT fioni one individual to another through the agency of mosquifcoea. He has seen under the micioscope sporca and filament of a particular nature on the &t>ng of one of thc-so insect that had just bitten a patient suffaxing from yellow fever, and thinks that the may undoubtedly be introduced into a heal'liy individual by the bite of ft mo&quito. lie recalls tlie fact that these insocts vrero reraaikably numerous in Phila-aelnhu at tho time of the great yellow fever epidemic in 17D7, and states also that the same conditions of temperature are necessary fci 1 the Itfc of Iho mosquito as for the esiblencc and sp^ad oi yellow fever.