Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1878 — DIPTHERIA. [ARTICLE]

DIPTHERIA.

Th« Sulphur Cure in Another Form. [New York World.] Sulphur for diptheria: Mr. John S. Wiles, a surgeon of Tnorncombe, Dorset, writes to the London Times that after two eases of malignunt diptheria out of some nine or teu he had been called to attend had proved fatal, the mother of a sick child showed him an extract from an American paper concerning a practitioner who used sulphur te cure the disease. Accordingly he used milk of sulphur for infants and flour of sulphur for elder children and aduits; dose, a tea spoonful or more, according to age, three or four times a day, swallowed slowly, aud application of the same to the nostiila with a sponge. Re suit:he did not lose a case theae or elsewhere, and he succeeded in saving life when the affeetiou had almost blocked, the throat.