Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1879 — Ice for Diphtheria. [ARTICLE]

Ice for Diphtheria.

O. E. Miles, of Cedar Bapids, lowa, says he cured his wife of diphtheria, after kerosene and sulphur had been tried in vain, by the use of ice, having her hold pieces in her throat, where the wliite fungus was formed, and applying it in cloths on the outside. The applications were renewed as fast as they disappeared, and soon the patient was out of danger. Mr. Miles’ theory is that the low temperature ccosed by the I;® deadly fungus. Vl •' ‘