Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1886 — A Cure for Diphtheria. [ARTICLE]

A Cure for Diphtheria.

A lady friend of the Auburn (N. Y.) Adveriiser has translated from the German a remedy for diphtheria which may be useful to some of our readers. R. Munch, proprietor of a drug establishment in Leipsic, Saxony, publishes in the Pharmacist, a medical paper, a remedy for diphtheria which has had surprising success. He urgently press s all physicians to try it for the benefit of all patients suffering from the disease, and also requests the press to publish it. He says: “My little daughter, 7 years of age, has had diphtheria twice within some weeks, with severe fever, about 105° Fahrenheit. We gave with great success rectified oil of turpentine (oleum terebinth n:e rectificatum). Dose, one teaspoonful in the morning and the same at evening.” Adults should take one tableapoonful. Afterward drink a little lukewarm milk to allay the burning in the throat. For children the second dose can be mixed with milk, which will render it easier to take. The result is really marvelous. The inflammation of the abnormal diphtheritic spots in the tlwoat grows lighter at the edges, and in this way they gradually shrink until in twenty-four hours they disappear entirely, leaving no sign. To quiet the inflamed tonsils the throat was gargled at first every two hours, and then every three hours, with the following gargle: One ounce chlorate of potash to forty ounces distilled water. This remedy has been used with perfect satisfaction both by adults and children, not one case endiug fatally. The Milwaukee Uolksbiatt quoted this remedy from the German paper, and afterward received a letter from a subscriber in Mitchell County, lowa, saying that “A child in the writer’s family was attacked by diphtheria, treated by local physicians, and died; then four members of the same family were similarly attacked, treated by this remedy, and, I am happy to tell you, all recovered.” Thebe is frozen music in many a heart that the beams of encouragement would melt into glorious song.