Show THE DREAD DISEASE A French Phj > icians Remedy for Diphtheria It experiments should confirm what is claimed for it a French physician Dr Dclthil has placed the civilized world under weighty obligation He has discovered that the smoke of liquid tar and turpentine will dissolve the fibrous exudations which choke up the throat in diphtheria and kill the patient by suffocations local applications of chloroform have been 1sed by many physicians with good success but they are of no use when the false membrane extends below the larynx Dr Deltbil pours equal parts of turpentine tur-pentine and liquid tar into a tin cup and sets fire to the mixture A dense resinous smoke arises which obscures the air from the room The patients he says immediately seems to experience experi-ence relief the choking and rattle stop the patient falls into a slumber and se ms to yihale the smoke with pleasnre The fibrous membrane soon becomes detached and the patient coughs up microbicides These when caught in a glass may be seen to dissolve in the smoke In the course of three days afterwards the patient recovers The New York Sun says that the same treatment was tried by Dr Nichols upon a nineyearold child of one of its compositors She was lying gasping for breath when he visited ner and was too weak to endure tracheotomy or puling the windpipe The tar treatment treat-ment was entirely successful fulfilling Dr Deithils pr dictions in everypar ticular |