Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1877 — Australian Cure for Sore Throat. [ARTICLE]

Australian Cure for Sore Throat.

A correspondent of the Queenslander gives the following cure for sore throat : It cannot be too generally known that all forms of sore throat, whether simple, ulcerated, quinsy, diphtheria, scarlet-fever or otherwise, can be either totally cured or greatly alleviated by simply wearing a soft old silk kerchief twice round the neck, high up and next the skin, especially if worn at night when the pain is first felt. Like Naaman, the Syrian, people will take any trouble but ti.e right one, and fly to gargles, blisters, lotions, pills, etc., and to keep at them for a month at a time; but an old silk square—why, it’s too absurd; and so they hug their sore throat, and wonder why it don’t get better. Not only does the silk cure the sore throat, but it "prevents a recurrence of it. I was formerly a martyr to quinsy and ulcerated sore throat, and used to have a whole month of it regularly every winter, and in spite, too, of all the usual battery of pills, gargles, etc., It ran its course till I tried the silk; the sore throat then took the hint, and has,left me alone ever since as a bad customer. I invariably kill it within an hour of any attempt it makes upon me; an old sore throat will take & day to cure. Mind, Ido not pretend to say that the silk will cure fever or any other symptom or complication that may accompany sore throat; but this I do say, that it will cure and remove all pain and difficulty of swallowing in the throat without the aid of any local remedy; or it will do it in spite of them, if you do apply them and it both; but, without it. cure only comes by nature, not physic, as far .as the sore throat goes; other remedies are neither good nor harm, except as they keep you from trying the infallible sil£