Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1890 — A Cure For Diphtheria. [ARTICLE]

A Cure For Diphtheria.

Scientific American: The following remedy is said to be the best known, a*’ least it is worth trying, for physicians seem powerless to cope with the disease sue ess fully. At the first indication of diphtheria in the throat of a child make the room close; then take a tin cup and uour ii to it a quantity of tar and turpentine, equal parts Then hold thv cup over the fire so as to fill the room wi h fumes, ihe little patient,lon inhaling the fumes, will cough u*> and spA out all the membranous matter, aud the diphtheria will pass off. The fumes of ihe tar and turpentine loosen the matter in the throat and thus affords the relief that has baffled the ski'l >f physicians.

Our neig borseetos to bo trouble over tbe Nichols:Hammond school affair. And calls upon *he parties to fight it out for themselves. — Hammond next. •