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Show CURB WOM DI&HTHB- A correspondent of a Victoria pa-per pa-per writes: Should you or any ofyour fanaily be attacked-with diphtheria, do not be alarmed , as it is easily tnd speedily cured without a doct,pr When it was rogitig in England a short time ago, I accompanied Dr. Fie'd on bin rounds to witness the1 so called "wonderful cures" he performed, perform-ed, while the patients oi others were dropping o'ff on all sides. 'The remedy, rem-edy, to;:be so, rapid, must be simple.' All he took with him was powder of sulphur and a quill, end' with these he cured every paiient without exception. He piit a teaspoonful of brimstone inso ' a wineglass of waterj and stirred, it with his finger instead of a spoon, as ! the sulphur does not readily amalga-, mate with weter. 4 When theftulphur; I j' was well m ixed he gavo it as a a"rle, i and in ten. minutes the pdtieiit wan out I (of danger, Brimstpue4 kills every 9 ! species of funguR in' man, boast, or ' fl j plant in a few minute?. Instead of fl , spitting out the garble, he recommend fl ed the swallowing of it' lu extreme 9 cases in which he had been called just 9 in the nick of time, when the fungus 9 was too near closing to allow the gar- 9 gling, he blew the sulphur through a 9 quill into the throat, and after the fuiv- 9 gus had shrunk to allow of it, then tho 9 gargling. Ho never lost, a patient 9 from diphtheria. ,lt a pivLient cannor. 9 gargle, take a live coalf put it on a 9 shovel, Bprinkle a spoonful or two oi: 9 ' flour of brimstone at a time upon it. 9 and let the sufferer inhale it, holding 9 'the head over it, and the fungus, will 9 die. This mode of using sulphur has 9 often cured cold in the head, chesty otc, 9 and is recommended for consumption. 9 t or asthiadi V ' |
