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Show BflBHBBflfliaaiJsp A C'orrrspondtnt TUInls It Is Conquered Con-quered at Last. ICorropondcnee. or tbe Uiicatr Mw ) Diphtheria has always been considered con-sidered a very stubborn malady, a dread of the physician and a dread of the patient. It has baffled the skill of our most eminent men, including in-cluding the best talent London could produce, and for which there was no- positive specific known to tho profession. Dr. I. Murray Gibbs, in an Australian medical journal, gives us the following wonderful won-derful record, which, if founl to hold good In future trials, as has been claimed for it in the past, is as near a specific as we can expect frcm any remedy, and must be classed as one rf tlie greatest discoveries of tbe uini'ecuth century. Referring to tlie statement of tho journal, the doctor has a recent note on the treatment of diphtheria by the constant blue -gum steam. By giving the vapor of the oil w 1th the steatu, we get the antiseptic action of tlie first and tlie beneficial eflect of tlie second. The patient is kept uudcr a tent-like coering in a warm, moist atmospi-ire containing a volatile oil obtsw I by placing leaves of tlie eucalpi lus In a Jug of boiling water. The tatient remains ir. tills atmosphere as long as there Is any Inflammation or the throat. Since 1SS1 Dr. Gibbes has treated 163 p h- in this way, with but otio death, and In the practice of a colleague col-league 305 cases were so treated,w ith but one death. This Is, I admit, nn extraordinary showing, and one Avliith lias, as far as I know, nevir been approached in tlie annals of history. It Is clalmrd that the autlseptic steam prevents decomposition decom-position of the membrane .in the throat and the consequent septis absorption; and that it Io prevents tho spread of the disease to other numbers of the family. What more cau be expected expect-ed from any remedy? The drug has been In use for many years in homeopathic practice, and is a great remedy iu our hands, as it has a special owcr over the urinary canal nud prostrate glmd, alternated alternat-ed with sac lacorchlmapnila urub; but not iu the massive doses administered admin-istered by some. I generally use from the third to the 30th potencies, and obtain all I desire. It has ahn a very soothing e2ect upon tho bronchial tubes, and is accordingly not to be overlooked In confirmed asthma (dry), not that It n ill by auy means eradicate the disease from the system (In fact I do not know what will), but it acts as a good ex-tectorauU ex-tectorauU Tho eucalyptus globulus globu-lus is a Urge Australian and Tasmanian tree, known among the natives as the fever tree, or gum tree, some specimens being over tw o hundred hun-dred feet high and fifteen in diameter, dia-meter, and discharges occasionally a blue gum.whlch is not so highly prized as the leaves, although I cannot can-not see why not. The parts employed, em-ployed, principally speaking, are tbe dried leaves width answer to tho following characters while growing. Green, growing on a short stem; they are thick and leathery, sjiear shaped, with a curve like a scythe-blade, and have a well marivcd nervule through the cenire, thickly sprinkled with pellucid dots. Taste warm, sweetish astringent, astring-ent, and aromatic; odour sweet aromatic I presume tho remedy can be obtained In its perfection and unadulterated state from theZ. C. M. I. drug department, Salt Lake City, or from Park Davis & Co., Detroit, Michigan. To say the least, it is worth a trial. The above Information In-formation may be quite interesting to your numerous readers, aud may save many valuable lives. Dr. John Cook. Lake Shore, Jan. 1, 1S91. |
