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Show SULPHUR WARDS OFF INFLUENZA j An Ogdenite has handed the Stan-j dard the following "flu" preventive, ' reproduced from an Atlanta, Ga., pa- per: Put a small amount of sulphur In ! each shoe every morning and good-by influenza. This is the remedy offered to the people of Atlanta by a Georgia doctor who has been practicing in Dixie for 40 years and who went through the yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans in 1897 unscathed. His account of the successful trials of this remedy follows: "In the early SO's I moved to Louisiana Louis-iana to practice medicine, and remained re-mained in the town where I first located lo-cated for nearly 20 years. The town in which I located was in the south -, western portion of the state and had large sugar and lumber industries, therefore I met many traveling men, and one in particular I remember from Memphis, Tenn., who told me one evening eve-ning that he had nursed yellow fever and cholera in all its stages, had assisted as-sisted in burying tho dead, and that the only precaution he ever took was to sprinkle sulphur in his shoes every morning during the epidemic and that he had never contracted the disease; furthermore, every one he told about it and who had tried it, not a single one had the disease. "In 1897 wo had an epidemic of yellow yel-low fever, and remembering what this gentleman had told mo I tried it, notwithstanding not-withstanding I had very little confidence confi-dence in It, I shall never regret having hav-ing tried it, for 1 escaped the fever, although I nursed it in all its stages during the entire epidemic. Now what has this to do with influenza? It has the same to do with It that it had to do with yellow fever and cholera kill the germ. I believe when the system sys-tem is thoroughly saturated with the sulphur, as suggested, it will prevent the germs of any disease from attacking attack-ing the system. There is no doubt that sulphur will penetrate the system sys-tem readily, for when one takes sulphur sul-phur In the system and has a silver dollar in his pocket, it will be turned black, caused by- the sulphuretted hy- drogen. Try it and see.. Now It would be very little trouble to have the boys in the' camps carry out this suggestion and thus break up the disease dis-ease which, hi causing so much suf- i fcring and a great many deaths." I 00 |