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Show CURE FOR PNEUMONIA. The following is a cure for pneumonia, pneumo-nia, which Is being applied with great success In Colorado: Saturate a ball of cotton as large as a one Inch marble, with spirits of alcohol, al-cohol, add three drops of chloroform to each ball of cotton, place it between the patient's teeth, and let him inhale tho fumes in deep long breaths for fifteen minutes; then, rest for fifteen minutes, or longor, it needed; then inhale again fifteen minutes, and re- j pent the operation, as directed, for twenty-four times and the result will be that-the lungs will expand to their normal condition, and In twenty-four hours the patient Is out of danger and in forty-eight hours he is cured although al-though weak. Cotton should be changed twice In fifteen minutes. Another method of inhalation for elderly people without teeth, and patients pa-tients in last stages of pneumonia: Get a small alcohol lamp, or any other heating apparatus, and a porcelain por-celain cup. make a one-Inch thick cover of wood for the cup put four small nails under the cover to preent sliding off; bore a one-half inch hole in the middle and Insert In the cover a one-half inch rubber tube long enough to reach patient's mouth, then boll alcohol diluted with water 5 per cent, or plainer, half and half (no chloroform chlo-roform needed in this method) and lot ' patient Inhale through tube the fumes of the boiling alcohol in deep long breaths for fifteen minutes. |