| Show THE whooping this ia considered a harmless ailment and as s rule but little attention is paid to it it has proved a serious matter in several instances of late however and has been the cause of some fatality here in cache county in large cities where they have gas works poor people take their children will the whooping cough to the vats where they inhale the fumes of the gas the mothers with their children sit and stand around the room and remain for about half an hour allowing the little ones to breathe the salubrious air A two days cession is said to cure the worst case of whooping cough when the purifying pits at the gas houses arc opened tha women ara taken to the box room which has an iron a bakk floor long rows of huge iron boxes filled with lime arc sunk in the ground the gas is passed through tho lime to purify it during the process it loses a great deal of ammonia and sulphur the lime soon be comm choked with impurities and then ia renewed when the lids aro removed a very pungent and penetrating odor rushes out while the mothers crowd forward with their children and hold them over the boxes EO that they may get the utmost act from the adors after a lattio while the whooping ceases and respiration becomes much easier the odors seem to cut the phlegm in their little throats ard lessen the cough the remedy is an old one nod its value has been tested by many bearc experience pastilles Pa are made especially for whooping cough which can ba burned in a room and reproduce alno exactly the fumes of the sas lime there is nothing quite so good as the smell from the lime boxes themselves however but in a place where there is no gag factory the lIes spoken of producing the sulphur and ammonia fume should be used |
