Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1891 — A CURE FOR CROUP. [ARTICLE]

A CURE FOR CROUP.

Simple Remedy for the Terrible Affliction Dltcovered In France. Several papers of Paris have published that Dr. Laugardierre, of Toulouse, had at different times experimented with success with a new treatment of sure efficiency for the cure of that terrible disease, the croup. The new treatment consists in the use of sulphur. Dr. Laugardierrp narrates thus his first experiment in the Paris Temps: “I called for some sulphur powder, took a tablespoonful of it, which I diluted in a glass of water, ordering to drink one tablespoonful of the mixture every hour, shaking it before using. Next day the child was better. New potion for the next day. The following day the child was cured. The only thing left was a loose cough, which I attrib 6 ted to the false membranes circulating in the tracheal artery. Asking the parents to save it for me in case the child should expectorate them, two days later a sudden lit of coughing expelled them, and three dried-up pieces the size of a large bean were brought to me. ” After that cure the Doctor obtained several others, but none more convincing than the following: “A little girl was dying; neither cry nor the least sound could come from her larynx; the pimples of diphtheria were on the ears, neck, head and cheeks; her wheezing breathing could be heard twenty meters off.” The Doctor had secured a probe to insufflate nitrate of silver into the larynx. The parents opposed that, but consented to make the child swallow the sulphurated potion during the night. “On the next day the child, which I had considered as lost, was resuscitated—the voice was restored; the potion was continued during that day and the next day the child was cured.” The communication of Dr. Laugardierre is of too much importance not to be the subject of a serious and immediate examination, and it is for the Academy of Medicine to order such.