Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1877 — Cure for the Diptheria. [ARTICLE]

Cure for the Diptheria.

Cleveland Herald. A correspondent es a Victoria paper writes : Should any of your family be attacked with the diptheria do not be alarmed, as it is usually and speedily cured without a doctor- When it was raging in England a few years ago I accompanied Dr. Fields on his rounds to witness the so-called wonderful cures he performed while the patients of others were dropping on all sides The remedy, to be so rapid, must be •simple. Ail he took with him was powdered sulphur and a quill, and with these he cured every patient without exception. He put a teaspoonful of flour of brimstone into a wineglass of water an 1 stirred it with his finger instead of a spoon, as tlie sulphur does not readily amalgamate with water. When the sulphur was well mixed he gave it as a gargle, and in ten minutes the patient was out of danger. Brimstone cures every species of fungus in man, beast and plant in a few minutes. Instead of spitting out. the gargle, he recommended the swallowiagjof ir. In extreme eases he hud been called just in the nick of time, when the fungus was too nearly closing to allow the gargling, he blew the sulphate through a quill into the throat, and after the fungus had shrunk to allow of it, then the gar-ling. He never lost a patient from diptheria. “If a patient cannot gargle, take a live coal, put it on a. shovel, and sprinkle a spoonful or two of flour of brimstone at a time upon It, holding the head over it, and the fungus will die. If plentifully used the whole room may be filled almost tc suffocation, at d the patient can walk about in it, inhaling the fumes with doors and windows closed. The- mode of fumigating a room with sulphur has often cured most violent attacks of cold in the head, chest, etc., at any time is recommended in cases of consumption and asth na.”

' Rochester Sentinel: A voting man ' nrmed Scott, living in Union township became suddenly insane on last i Saturday. He went to the barn lot . and kir.dk d a fire after which he di--1 vested himself of all his clothing and ■ began yelling and dancing around the : lire like an Indian with his war paint j on. The attention or his mother, who j was in the house was attracted by his I yells and she proceeded to him. By strung persuasion she induced him to ; put on his clothing and extinguish the fire. He then broke from his I mother, bounded the fence like a deer ■ ami took to the timber. Pursuit was made but after two days chase he had i not been found and we- have had no further report from him. He was I about Li years of age aud always reI garded as a bright and intelligent , youth. New Y’ork Graphic (independent) ; We ventured :o say after the Conki ling revolt al Rochester, that the rei publican party wasfast passing out of I politics and into history. It has no | organization in one-half of the Union. It is practically defunct in New York state, and now if it is destroyed in Ohio—as it will be substantially ff Bishop is elected—we may expect its disappearance in other states. I’he Rochester Union, in a few well chosen words, sets at rest all the silly I talk ;-bont “Tilden” and “anli-Tilden” sentiments r>ervuding the late Democratio convention. We don’t believe there wiw im enemy, of either President. Tilden or Governor Rohinson fn that convention unless it was some republican who stoic in on a general ticket,