DIPHTHERETIC SORE THROAT.

Waikato Times, Volume XL, Issue 3259, 18 May 1893, Page 2

DIPHTHERETIC SORE THROAT.

With the prevalence of throat affections in the district just now we would again remind our readers of the almost miraculous cures that have been effect id and repoited from fumigating with coal tar or sulphur. The following clipping will also, we trust, be of service in checking the disease in its early stages, ami in any case a liberal use of sulphur can liavo no ill effectsMr John S, Miles, suri'iion, of Thorncombe, Dorset, writes to the Times Having recently had to contend with an outbreak of diphtheria of Iho most malignant type, arising on a large dairy farm in the comity of Dorset, 1 began by nsiiiK, as local applications tn the fungoid growth of tho threat_ and nostrils, the usual caustics inn) astringent preparation of iron, etc,; but two cises out of nine or ten having proved fatal from choking mill impeded respiration, the mother one morning gave me to read an extract from an American paper, sent her by a friend, in which " sulphur' was used by a practitioner, and relied on by him as the most potent remedy to arrest tho gnnvtli of this fungoid, I at once provided her with a liquid preparation by mixing as much sulphur as I could with glycerine to a creamy consistence, and directed that each child attacked should swallow slowly, according to age, a teaspoonful of the liquid throe or four times a day; also that a little should be applied to the nostrils with a sponge. I was so impressed with the efficacy and rationale of this remedy that I adopted it in preference for all the other cases that I was consulted on in this neighbourhood, and no other cases in thi3 family (except a hydrocephalic infant) attacked proved fatal, and I never lost a msb where the remedy was used at the earliest stage of the infection. In ono or two instances, where resorted to when the affection bad almost blocked the throat before I was consulted, it had complete success. For infants I lisod the milk of sulphur, and for oldsr children and adults the stronger flowers of sulphur; and when it could not be swallowed some of the powder iva3 blown into the throat and nostrils through a quill.