Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1877 — A Certain Cure for Diphtheria. [ARTICLE]

A Certain Cure for Diphtheria.

A correspondent of a Victoria paper writes: Should you or any of your family beattaokeJ with diphtheria do not be showed, as It Is easily and speedily cured without a doctor. When it was raging In England *fcw years ago, I accompanied Dr. Field on his rounds to witness the so-called “wonderful cures" be performed, while the patients of oln«f» were dropping on ai! sides. - The remedy, to be so rapid, must be simple. Ail he took with him was powderao{sulphur and a quill, and with these be oared every patient without exception. He put a teaspoonful of flour of brimstone into a wine-glass of water, and stirred It with his Anger Instead of a spoon, aa the sulphur doee not readily amalgamate with water. When the sulphur was well mixed he gave it as a gargle, and in ten minutes the patient was ont of da tiger. Brimstone kills every species or fungus In man, beast, and plant iu a few minutes. Instead of spitting out the gargle, be recommended the swallowing of it. In extreme eases, lit which he had been called just in the nick of time, when the fungus was toe nearly closing to allow the gargling, he blew the sulphur through a quill Into the throat, aud after the fungus had shrunk to allow of it, ,tben the gargling. He never lost a patient from diphtheria. Isa patient cannot gargle, take a live coal, put it on a shovel, and sprinkle a spoonful or two of flour brimstone at a time upon It, let the sufferer inhale it, and the fUngus will die. If plentifully uMtfrthe whole room may be filled almost to suffocation; the patient can walk about In It. inhaliug the fames, -with doors and windows shut. The mode of famlgating a room wltb sulpbur has often cured most violent attacks of cold In the head, cheat, etc., at any times and is recommended in cases of oonauiuption and -