Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1882 — Cream Tarter and Small-pox. [ARTICLE]

Cream Tarter and Small-pox.

[Louisville Courier-Journal.] An instance of the efficacy of cream tartar as a prophylactic against the infection of small-pox, has been recently demontrated in a prominent family of Louisville. Several weeks ago a case of small pox was developed in the house aud sent to the eruption hospital promptly, as soon as the nature of the disease was established beyond a doubt, but not before all the members of the family had been exposed to the contagion for two or three days. By the advice of a friend, the family was induced to drink freely and often of cream tarter water, in the proportion ol an ounce to a pint of water. Every member of the family has so far escaped, while the coachman, who did not drink the cream tarter .vater, contracted the diseas, aud is now a patient at the pesthouse. All fear of the reapearauce of the disease in the family has been dis-sipated,-and the use of this simple remedy, as a prophylactic and modifyer of small-pox, is recommended.